Grantmakers

Charities and Community Foundations That Give Grants in North Dakota

These 27 organizations are not private foundations. They are charities based in North Dakota that give grants to other nonprofits and report them on Form 990 Schedule I -- community foundations, United Ways and federated funds, hospital and university foundations, and operating charities that regrant. Each gave to at least 20 organizations we could identify and filed a return covering 2023 or later.

27grantmaking charities
$247.9Mgranted between them
2,107funding relationships mapped

Ordered by number of organizations funded, not by dollars. Funding more organizations means more turnover in who gets a grant each year, which is a reasonable proxy for how often a list like this one changes -- it is not a signal that any specific grantmaker is open to a new, unsolicited applicant.

OrganizationBased inMedian grantOrganizationsTotal granted
North Dakota Community FoundationBismarck$12,000429$23.4M
Fargo-Moorhead Area FoundationFargo$12,500312$30.6M
Great Plains Food BankFargo$30,672169$104.6M
Dakota Medical FoundationFargo$11,500110$8.9M
Minot Community FoundationMinot$14,212105$5.5M
Knights of Columbus Council 1883Jamestown$12,20092$4.2M
Inspiritus Community Health FoundationMinot$19,59279$4.5M
Northwest North Dakota CommunityWilliston$27,52875$5.3M
Community Foundation of Grand ForksGrand Forks$15,27570$3.8M
Steer IncBismarck$14,92767$5.3M
United Way of Cass-ClayFargo$56,56659$13.5M
Dakota Medical CharitiesFargo$10,00057$10.7M
Impact FoundationFargo$10,00055$3.7M
Ichf FoundationMinot$10,40853$1.7M
Cass County Electric Cooperative FoundationFargo$7,50046$473K
Innovis Health LLCFargo$15,00045$4.9M
Stark Development CorporationDickinson$25,00043$1.8M
North Dakota Humanities CouncilBismarck$10,00030$934K
Minot Junior Golf Association IncMinot$15,00030$2.2M
First Lutheran Church FoundationFargo$10,00027$1.3M
Fraternal Order of EaglesDickinson$14,55025$1.1M
Missouri Slope Areawide United WayBismarck$26,75023$2.8M
Valley City - Barnes County Development CorporatioValley City$25,00022$1.9M
Greater Grand Forks Convention &Grand Forks$10,00022$482K
Magic City Lions ClubMinot$8,25021$451K
Altru Health SystemGrand Forks$21,55021$3.4M
Cooperstown Municipal AssociationCooperstown$10,00020$687K
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.

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