Open Foundations · North Dakota

Tom & Frances Leach Foundation Inc

Bismarck, North Dakota · EIN 456012703. Its Form 990-PF says giving is not restricted to organizations picked in advance, which is how a private foundation files that it accepts unsolicited requests. It paid $2.0M across 71 grants in 2025, a median of $10K each.

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$2.0M
paid in 2025
71
grants paid
$10K
median grant
24%
to first-time recipients
$25.3M
assets on file

How to apply, as filed

Straight off Part XV of the return. Where the foundation left a line blank, this says so rather than guessing.

Send requests to
TAMI HELMERS
Address
1720 BURNT BOAT DR STE 206, BISMARCK, ND, 58502
Phone
7012550479
Form the request should take
ONLINE APPLICATION AT WWW.LEACHFOUNDATION.ORG/APPLY
Submission deadline
JUNE 30 WITH AWARDS MADE ANNUALLY IN NOVEMBER
Restrictions on awards
ORGANIZATIONS MUST BE APPROVED 501(C)(3) ENTITIES, PREFERENCE IS GIVEN TO ORGANIZATIONS IN THE UPPER MIDWEST.

As filed on the Form 990-PF for tax year 2025, IRS filing object id 202611489349100751. Printed word for word, including the entries that only say to see a website or an attachment.

What it funds, in its own words

The words that come up most often across the purposes it wrote on its 2025 grants. These are the foundation's own words, not a category we assigned.

scholarshipcenteroutreachcamp

Biggest grants in 2025

The 15 largest of the 71 grants paid in 2025, with the purpose the foundation wrote for each.

#RecipientStateAmountPurpose as filed
1Mountrail County Medical Cntr IncND$250,000MOUNTRAIL COUNTY MEDICAL CTR MRI
2Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesND$250,000PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR THE CARE MOBILE
3Bismarck State College FoundationND$150,000BAVENDICK ATHLETIC CENTER
4Central Dakota Humane SocietyND$120,000NEW DOG BUILDING PROJECT
5Hope Manor FoundationND$75,000HOPE MANOR'S OPERATIONAL SUSTAINABIL
6Williston State College FoundationND$60,000SUPPORT HEALTHCARE TRAINING FACILITY
7Bismarck Cancer Center FoundationND$50,000STRUCTURAL IMPR TO PATIENT FACILITY
8Great Plains Food BankND$50,000HARVESTING HOPE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
9State Historical Soc of Nd FdnND$50,000SUPPORT MILITARY GALLERY
10Theodore Roosevelt Medora FdnND$50,000FUND NEW BUILDING TO HOUSE EMPLOYEES
11Univerity of MaryND$50,000CAMPUS ADDITION
12University of JamestownND$50,000VOORHEES CHAPEL LEADERSHIP
13Western Nd Honor FlightND$50,000HONOR FLIGHT FOR VETERANS
14318 ProjectND$40,000HUMAN TRAFFICKING-SURVIVOR MENTORSHI
15Missouri Slope Areawide United WayND$40,000DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY & B

Giving by year, and who received it

Grants paid by year

Every year of this foundation's grants that Civly holds
Tax yearGrantsPaid
202050$1.2M
202152$1.3M
202265$1.4M
202368$1.5M
202469$2.0M
2025 (partial year)71$2.0M

Where the money went

Share of 2025 grant dollars by recipient state
North Dakota87%
Colorado3%
District of Columbia1%
Indiana1%
Missouri1%

Who decides

Officers, directors and trustees as filed, with the year of the return they appeared on.

Ann ReichSECR/TREAS · 2025
Brian R BjellaDIRECTOR · 2025
David L GoodinVICE PRESIDE · 2025
Kate BlackDIRECTOR · 2025
Todd SteinwandPRESIDENT · 2025
William L DanielDIRECTOR · 2025

Every figure on this page is that foundation's own latest filed year, which is 2022 or later. This foundation is listed because its Form 990-PF says it does not restrict giving to preselected organizations and it paid at least 5 grants totaling $100K or more that year. Latest-year grants and terms per foundation from IRS 990-PF e-file returns; the newest tax year is partial until the IRS finishes releasing it. Grants are de-duplicated on funder, year, recipient and amount, so identical repeat grants collapse into one and totals can run low. Full method.

Source: IRS Form 990-PF e-file releases (public domain). Analysis: Civly.

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