Public Charity

Impact Foundation

Impact Foundation is a Public Charity headquartered in Fargo, ND. Financial data from the 2024 filing: $4.6M revenue, $2.7M expenses, $9.3M total assets. IRS filings disclose 155 grants awarded by this foundation, totaling roughly $4.8M.

EIN: 200520386 Fargo, ND Philanthropy, Charity & Voluntarism Promotion NTEE: T50 Latest filing: 2024

Organization Summary

Grants Given 155

Filing History 2019–2024

Grant Total $4.8M

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Financial Snapshot · 2024

Total Revenue $4.6M

Total Expenses $2.7M

Total Assets $9.3M

Total Revenue$4.6M

Total Expenses$2.7M

Total Assets$9.3M

Grants Given155

Grant Total$4.8M

Filing Years2019–2024

Mission

With a mission to build the capacity of nonprofits, businesses, and individuals to maximize their community impact, Impact Foundation's overall goal is to dramatically improve its nonprofit partners' capacity to produce superior results. Impact Foundation operates exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes. To meet its primary goal, Impact Foundation (Impact) receives and administers donations, makes contributions to, and provides assistance to other nonprofit organizations. Impact operates charitable initiatives designed to measurably improve society in areas including: economic development; health and healthcare access; education and training; and other philanthropic areas identified by donors.

Where $100 goes at Impact Foundation

How Impact Foundation divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 7 years.

$94 Programs the work itself

$5 Management running the organization

$1 Fundraising raising the next dollar

Inside the $94 for programs

$75

Community SupportImpact provides grants to support community events, statewide nonprofit organizations, and other societal improvement initiatives

80% of program spending

$19

Organizational EffectivenessImpact and its supporting organization, Achievements Unlimited Foundation (collectively the "Foundations"), recognize that many nonprofit organizations often lack the expertise and financial resources to invest in organizational…

20% of program spending · Reported in the filing: 500 organizations; 600 organizations

<$1

Economic DevelopmentThe Foundations support the economic development of North Dakota communities by initiating and funding various initiatives directed at assisting small businesses located in North Dakota.In 2007, Impact…

0% of program spending

Plus 1 more program. Cost per person served and the full program breakdown are on the full profile.

Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2024. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Sample Grants Given

Prairie Heights Church

West Fargo, ND · 2024

Connect those apart from God with Christ and a Church Family

$750,000

Bethel University

St Paul, MN · 2024

Support general operations of this university

$140,000

Living Word Lutheran Church

Marshall, MN · 2024

Support general church mission

$100,000

ND Department of Veterans Affairs

Fargo, ND · 2024

Support for emergency needs of ND Veterans

$70,000

FM Area Foundation

Fargo, ND · 2024

Support community engagement, fundraising, and grant writing

$46,000

Showing up to 5 of 155 total records — full history available with membership.

Officers & Directors

Chair Dan Carey

Board Member from Jul 2024 Eric Monson

Board Member from Jul 2024 Jacob Strinden

Executive Director John Patrick Traynor

Secretary Phil Hansen

Treasurer Sindy Keller

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support

$2,293,616 117 grants

Religion & Spirituality

$1,895,000 8 grants

Education

$207,387 5 grants

Youth Development

$101,900 3 grants

Housing & Homelessness

$60,300 4 grants

Financial Trends

Year	Revenue	Expenses	Assets
2024	$4.6M	$2.7M	$9.3M
2023	$3.9M	$2.5M	$7.4M
2022	$3.0M	$1.7M	$6.2M
2020	$2.5M	$2.1M	$4.2M
2019	$2.0M	$1.6M	$3.7M

Between 2019 and 2024, reported annual revenue grew from $2.0M to $4.6M (+126%), with total assets most recently reported at $9.3M.

Interactive year-over-year charts and full filing details available with membership.

Grant Geography

Grants from this foundation were reported to recipients in IL, KY, MN, ND, VA, WI.

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