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Foundations That Fund Human Services in North Dakota

Imperigo has identified 152 funders that made 1,109 grants totaling $77.7M to 147 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 $77.7M
Funders 152
Grants 1,109
Organizations funded 147

Top Funders — page 2 of 4

26. Horace Lions Club
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $35K · through 2024 · 13.0% of their giving
$53K
27. Dunn County Fair Association
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $20K · through 2024 · 12.5% of their giving
$47K
28. Western ND Golf Tournaments Inc C/O Bruce Haskins
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $8K · through 2025 · 22.6% of their giving
$24K
29. Arc - Little Missouri Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2022 · 24.4% of their giving
$20K
30. Foundation for a Healthy North Dakota
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2023 · 100.0% of their giving
$17K
31. Thundering Saints Inc
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $30K · through 2020 · 6.7% of their giving
$45K
32. Dakota Medical Charities
14 grants to 9 organizations · largest $40K · through 2023 · 1.8% of their giving
$152K
33. 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
34. Aes Restaurant Foundation Inc
6 grants to 6 organizations · largest $10K · through 2024 · 2.8% of their giving
$59K
35. Adirondack Foundation
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $150K · through 2024
$188K
36. Home Neighborly Service of Denver
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $27K · through 2024 · 2.4% of their giving
$53K
37. Sourceamerica
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $65K · through 2024
$167K
38. Stark Development Corporation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $50K · through 2022 · 2.1% of their giving
$50K
39. Hazen Community Development
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2023 · 7.5% of their giving
$12K
40. Prevent Child Abuse North Dakota
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $51K · through 2024 · 1.3% of their giving
$63K
41. Sanford Group Return
21 grants to 11 organizations · largest $45K · through 2024
$350K
42. Altru Health Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $79K · through 2024
$79K
43. Bakken Bbq Charities
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2023 · 3.6% of their giving
$10K
44. West Central Initiative
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $20K · through 2024
$85K
45. North Dakota Humanities Council
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2021 · 1.5% of their giving
$20K
46. Williston Basin Chapter of the American Petroleum Institute
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $6K · through 2019 · 4.0% of their giving
$6K
47. Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $92K · through 2024
$248K
48. Commonspirit Health
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $85K · through 2024
$85K
49. Weatherby Foundation International Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $5K · through 2020
$15K
50. Mary Kay Ash Foundation
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $20K · through 2022
$40K

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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