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Nonprofits in North Dakota

The IRS recognises 6,784 tax-exempt organizations with a North Dakota address, rank 47 of 51. 688 of them have a Form 990 on record.

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At a glance

6,784
Organizations recognised
Registration, not activity.
5,025
Recognised under 501(c)(3)
The charitable subsection.
688
With a Form 990 on record
The only organizations with financial figures here.
851.7
Per 100,000 residents
Census resident population as the denominator.
$9,097,697,602
Revenue reported
Summed across filings, each for a different year.
0.3%
Share of all US organizations
Of 1,964,958 recognised nationally.

Taken from the IRS on September 19, 2026. Address of record, which is not necessarily where an organization operates.

Largest by revenue

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Organizations in North Dakota by total revenue on their most recent Form 990
RankOrganizationRevenue
1ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM$780,388,280
2INNOVIS HEALTH LLC$683,497,859
3MOUNTRAIL-WILLIAMS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$490,840,345
4MINNKOTA POWER COOPERATIVE INC$486,986,596
5MCKENZIE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$478,726,576
6TRINITY HEALTH & AFFILIATES$362,747,595
7ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER$277,686,138
8CENTRAL POWER ELECTRIC COOP INC$204,731,346
9CASS COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$162,375,206
10NODAK ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$147,271,424
11TRINITY HEALTH$136,578,494
12UNIVERSITY OF MARY$127,054,830
13NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$102,362,441
14OFFUTT FAMILY FOUNDATION$98,196,254
15ROUGHRIDER ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$87,888,242

The fifteen largest with a filing on record. Organizations without one are counted above but have no figures to rank.

Largest by assets

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Organizations in North Dakota by assets
RankOrganizationAssets
1FIRST COMMUNITY CREDIT UNION$1,327,869,515
2ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM$1,249,137,230
3MINNKOTA POWER COOPERATIVE INC$1,230,034,108
4MOUNTRAIL-WILLIAMS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$957,456,348
5TRINITY HEALTH & AFFILIATES$835,958,262
6SANFORD$792,728,642
7NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$688,411,663
8MCKENZIE ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE INC$646,763,826
9CENTRAL POWER ELECTRIC COOP INC$537,543,464
10OFFUTT FAMILY FOUNDATION$380,667,627

Book value at the end of the year, which is what all three forms report.

Highest reported compensation

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Organizations in North Dakota by reported compensation
RankOrganizationReported compensation
1SANFORD$15,408,027
2ALTRU HEALTH SYSTEM$2,394,929
3TRINITY HEALTH$1,952,904
4INNOVIS HEALTH LLC$1,855,150
5MINNKOTA POWER COOPERATIVE INC$1,429,916
6ST ALEXIUS MEDICAL CENTER$1,184,960
7CENTRAL POWER ELECTRIC COOP INC$989,835
8TRINITY HEALTH & AFFILIATES$982,737
9LUTHERAN CHARITY ASSOCIATION$898,983
10MCKENZIE COUNTY HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS INC$878,399

The largest amount an organization here reported paying one person, as reported.

What they do

Organizations in North Dakota by NTEE major group
CategoryOrganizations
Health Care75
Human Services75
Philanthropy, Voluntarism and Grantmaking Foundations49
Education47
Recreation and Sports47
Community Improvement and Capacity Building25
Arts, Culture and Humanities17
Housing and Shelter17
Animal-Related14
Youth Development14

Organizations the IRS never classified do not appear here. A code is assigned at registration and rarely updated, so it describes what an organization said it would do.

Nearest by count

States either side of North Dakota by number of organizations
RankStateOrganizations
46South Dakota7,422
48Rhode Island6,647

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  • The North Dakota Factbook entryAcross the Factbook

    Every measure the Factbook publishes for this state in one place, each with where it ranks among the others and the record it came from.

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Compared with Rhode Island.

Full rankings: largest by revenue, largest by assets, and largest grantmakers, and highest reported officer compensation. All organizations: nonprofits.

What this page cannot show

  • The state is the organization’s address of record with the IRS. A national charity registered here operates elsewhere too.
  • Churches need not apply for recognition, so they are under-represented, and the ones here are those that chose to apply.
  • Financial figures exist only for organizations with a Form 990 on record, and each describes whichever year that organization last reported.

Full method at methodology.

Sources

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