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Foundations That Fund Human Services in North Dakota

Imperigo has identified 158 funders that made 1,202 grants totaling $82.8M to 152 human services organizations in North Dakota, with a median grant of $16K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Human Services Funding in North Dakota

Total granted $82.8M
Funders 158
Grants 1,202
Organizations funded 152

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Morton County Council on Aging Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $34K · through 2024 · 9.1% of their giving
$93K
27. Horace Lions Club
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $35K · through 2024 · 13.0% of their giving
$53K
28. Dunn County Fair Association
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $20K · through 2024 · 12.5% of their giving
$47K
29. Western ND Golf Tournaments Inc C/O Bruce Haskins
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $8K · through 2025 · 22.6% of their giving
$24K
30. Arc - Little Missouri Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2022 · 24.4% of their giving
$20K
31. Dakota Medical Charities
20 grants to 11 organizations · largest $40K · through 2024 · 1.7% of their giving
$207K
32. Foundation for a Healthy North Dakota
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2023 · 100.0% of their giving
$17K
33. Thundering Saints Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $30K · through 2020 · 6.7% of their giving
$45K
34. Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of ND - Fort Union Lodge 128
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $20K · through 2024 · 4.8% of their giving
$52K
35. Aes Restaurant Foundation Inc
6 grants to 6 organizations · largest $10K · through 2024 · 2.8% of their giving
$59K
36. Adirondack Foundation
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $150K · through 2024
$188K
37. Home Neighborly Service of Denver
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $27K · through 2024 · 2.4% of their giving
$53K
38. Sourceamerica
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $65K · through 2024
$167K
39. Stark Development Corporation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2022 · 2.1% of their giving
$50K
40. Hazen Community Development
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2023 · 7.5% of their giving
$12K
41. Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $51K · through 2024 · 1.3% of their giving
$63K
42. Sanford Group Return
21 grants to 11 organizations · largest $45K · through 2024
$350K
43. Altru Health Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $79K · through 2024
$79K
44. Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
11 grants to 4 organizations · largest $141K · through 2025
$402K
45. Bakken Bbq Charities
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2023 · 3.6% of their giving
$10K
46. West Central Initiative
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $20K · through 2024
$85K
47. First Lutheran Church Foundation
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $10K · through 2025 · 1.5% of their giving
$20K
48. Williston Basin Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2019 · 4.0% of their giving
$6K
49. Commonspirit Health
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $85K · through 2024
$85K
50. Points of Light Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $65K · through 2024
$65K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to human services work in North Dakota, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 10 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering human services work, with an address in North Dakota. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable human services funding in North Dakota, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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