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GREAT NORTH POLE

EIN 82-1969429 WEST FARGO, ND

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Revenue 2024
$1,330,577
Expenses 2024
$1,353,853

Program services were 93.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P58
Classification
1000
Street
3220 4TH ST E SUITE 204

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Great North Pole's mission is to work with local non-profits and community partnerships to help children and families in need in the counties of Cass & Clay. We believe that every child should have the opportunity to experience the joy of Christmas and the holiday season.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To help families in need by providing basic needs and gifts during the Christmas season.

  • In 2024 The Great North Pole offered Helpful Holiday Boxes to 856 families living in Cass County, ND and Clay County, MN.The Great North Pole provides information on their program to local schools and other non-profits within their area. For example, children that are part of the free or reduced meal program would be provided information on the program. There is then an application process to "opt-in" to the receipt of the Helpful Holiday Boxes.By creating invaluable local and national corporate relationships and strong community partnerships the Great North Pole multiplies many times over the original monetary donations made and turning those funds into retail goods. By stretching every dollar further, it allows us to help more families in need and provide not only basic needs to our community members, but also winter wear and gifts to the children of these families.

    Expenses $1,261,561 · Grants $1,184,697

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Nicholas Killoran

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rachel Thurs

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lora Stebleton

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michelle Killoran

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth Johnson

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amy Lammers

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Brandon Raboin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kayce Halley

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Richard Thurs

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sarah Thorsrud

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Martodam

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tiffany Scheel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tricia Barse

    Director (until July 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elisha Beck

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jenna Wilm

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sean Elsner

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Shannon Thornton

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $72,996
    From this org
    $72,996
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,330,577
    Expenses
    $1,353,853
    Contributions
    $1,388,731
    Grants paid
    $1,184,697
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,106,987
    Expenses
    $1,098,897
    Contributions
    $1,138,987
    Grants paid
    $937,553
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,052,052
    Expenses
    $839,105
    Contributions
    $1,085,160
    Grants paid
    $690,901

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,262,419
    Expenses
    $1,143,400
    Assets (EOY)
    $278,721
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $319,315
    Expenses
    $337,011
    Assets (EOY)
    $111,265
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,563,756
    Expenses
    $1,658,675
    Assets (EOY)
    $152,097
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,981,923
    Expenses
    $1,990,058
    Assets (EOY)
    $223,880
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $707,971
    Expenses
    $475,956
    Assets (EOY)
    $232,015

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.