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GRAND FORKS FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION INC

EIN 45-0404011 GRAND FORKS, ND

Revenue 2024
$722,047
Expenses 2024
$1,652,023

Program services were 92.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
2400 47TH AVE S

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 FOUNDATION'S PURPOSE IS TO SUPPORT AND PROVIDE ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION IN GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS BY RAISING PRIVATE SUPPORT FOR NEW AND ENRICHED OPPORTUNITIES.

  • FUNDING OF INTERNAL PROGRAMS FOR GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.

    Expenses $1,207,761 · Grants $1,207,761

  • THE FOUNDATION AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO NEEDY STUDENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THIS PAST YEAR THE FOUNDATION AWARDED 424 SCHOLARSHIPS TO THESE NEEDY STUDENTS. ADDITIONALLY, THE FOUNDATION AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO SENIOR STUDENTS TO FURTHER PURSUE ACADEMICS IN HIGHER EDUCATION. THIS PAST YEAR THE FOUNDATION AWARDED 124 POST HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS. SCHOLARSHIPS TOTALED $103,963 FOR THE YEAR.

    Expenses $103,963 · Grants $103,963

  • THE FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS TWICE ANNUALLY TO EDUCATORS AT GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR ALL ELEMENTARY, MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL GRADES. THE APPROXIMATE NUMBER SERVED IS 7,652 STUDENTS.

    Expenses $87,488 · Grants $87,488

  • GRAND FORKS PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALUMNI NETWORK AND OTHER ACTIVITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION IN GRAND FORKS, ND.

    Expenses $124,724

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.

  • HILLARY KEMPENICH

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOE MIEDEMA

    CO-TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CARLA HAAVEN

    PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • CATHERINE GILLACH

    EXECUTIVE SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TALIA TELANDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DEB DUNHAM

    CO-TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.02 related

  • CHAD DETIENNE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ISAAC KARIKARI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL TRAYNOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.02 related

  • ALEX TODOROVIC

    ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MIKE WILBER

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILY DAWES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMANDA KOSIOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATIE ARTHUR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • EMILIA HODGSON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    32 + 0.02 related

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
    $722,047
    Expenses
    $1,652,023
    Contributions
    $377,921
    Grants paid
    $1,399,212
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $740,912
    Expenses
    $7,039,111
    Contributions
    $548,896
    Grants paid
    $237,488
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $428,726
    Expenses
    $1,508,090
    Contributions
    $392,355
    Grants paid
    $201,661

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
    $11,148,846
    Expenses
    $475,072
    Assets (EOY)
    $14,175,659

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $828,032
    Expenses
    $436,701
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,890,295

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $717,533
    Expenses
    $509,359
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,190,256

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $689,524
    Expenses
    $368,597
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,894,731

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $518,266
    Expenses
    $389,946
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,610,105

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $431,403
    Expenses
    $373,442
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,538,310

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $363,899
    Expenses
    $264,869
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,347,887

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $330,248
    Expenses
    $238,819
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,264,562

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $333,931
    Expenses
    $227,309
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,240,524

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $188,962
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,029,403

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.