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FOSSUM FOUNDATION INC

EIN 45-6013302 FARGO, ND

Revenue 2024
$94,955
Expenses 2024
$99,238

Program services were 97.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1241 UNIVERSITY DR N

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).

Other organizations at this address

1 other organization in the IRS Business Master File lists the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To assist in carrying out the purpose of the North Dakota State University Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, organized and existing for the support of North Dakota State University.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To assist the North Dakota State University Foundation in carrying out its exempt purpose of supporting North Dakota State University.

  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

    Expenses $20,000 · Grants $20,000

  • Grants to North Dakota State University (1340 Administration Ave, Fargo, ND 58102) for the following: $76,918 was used to support the NDSU undergraduate merit scholarships program.

    Expenses $76,918 · Grants $76,918

  • ...........................................................

As filed on the 2024 return. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

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.

  • Allyson Peterson

    Assistant Secretary/Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $260,558
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $212,337
    Other
    $48,221
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 40 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $211,787 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $550 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $21,860 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $27,028 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $261,225 related
  • John Shotwell

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.02
  • Clyde Fossum

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.01
  • Burdell Fossum

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.02
  • Carl Larson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.01
  • Karen Morrison

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.03
  • Gregg Halverson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.02
  • Donn Diederich

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.01

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $94,955
    Expenses
    $99,238
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $96,918
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $99,358
    Expenses
    $51,532
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $49,551
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $110,221
    Expenses
    $67,947
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $66,500

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
    $80,290
    Expenses
    $41,253
    Assets (EOY)
    $493,557
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $49,121
    Expenses
    $76,283
    Assets (EOY)
    $473,819

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

  • North Dakota State University

    $76,918

    2024

  • North Dakota State University

    $46,500

    2022 Scholarships

  • North Dakota State University

    $29,551

    2023 Scholarships

  • 2024

  • 2023 Scholarship endowment

  • 2022 Scholarship endowment

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

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 13 October 2026, under deductibility UNKWN.

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 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.