We are grateful for all charities who participated in the 24-hour giving event this year and the thousands of donors who stepped up to support their mission, transforming many lives across the region.
Below is a comprehensive list of all the charity awards.
Top Small Budget Charities (Operating Budget: <$250,000)
- F5 Project
- Lend A Hand Up
- Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue
- The Perry Center Maternity Home
- Landon’s Light Foundation
Top Medium Budget Charities (Operating Budget: $250,001 – $999,999)
- Amistad Worldwide
- St. Gianna’s Maternity Home
- Legacy Children’s Foundation
- RiverView Foundation
- Women’s Care Center
Top Large Budget Charities (Operating Budget: $1 million or more)
- New Life Center
- YWCA Cass Clay
- Anne Carlsen Center
- Oak Grove Lutheran School
- Great Plains Food Bank
Top Donor Retention
- North Dakota United Foundation
- Fargo-Moorhead Opera
- Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Top New Donor Growth
- Global Friends Coalition
- United Way of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks & Area (Imagination Library)
- Great Plains Food Bank
Donor Dynamo
- Great Plains Food Bank (returning charity)
- Life 97.9 – KFNW-FM (first-time participant)
Backyard & Beyond
- Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue (donors from most U.S. states)
- Great Plains Food Bank (donors from most North Dakota cities)
- Turtle Mountain Animal Rescue (donors from most Minnesota cities)
Best Use of Social Media
- Homeward Animal Shelter
- Red River Zoo
- Community of Care
- Youthworks
- YWCA Minot
Best Marketing Plan
- Bismarck Public Schools Foundation
- New Life Center
Unique Partnerships
- Barnesville Area Fund
- Hope Blooms
- St. Alphonsus School
Creative Board Engagement
- Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre
- Habitat for Humanity Northern Lights
Spark Plug
- Fathers Farm
- Fargo Park District Foundation
- Life 97.9 – KFNW-FM
- St. Alphonsus School
- Harvest Hope Farm
- Lake Region Healthcare Foundation Fergus Falls
Go BIG Fundraising
- Fathers Farm (first-time participant with the largest gift from a single donor)
Dynamite Fundraising
- United Way of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks & Area (charity with the largest percentage fundraising increase)
Rising Star
- Adult & Teen Challenge, North Dakota
- American Diabetes Association – Camp Sioux
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention – ND Chapter
- American Heroes Outdoors
- Badlands Ministries
- Bismarck Cancer Center Foundation
- Camp Bentley
- Care and Share Crookston
- Cass County Historical Society – Bonanzaville
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of Fargo-Moorhead
- Christian Adoption Services
- Community of Care
- Community Violence Intervention Center (CVIC)
- Down Home
- Emergency Food Pantry
- Empire Arts Center
- Fargo-Moorhead Opera
- Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra
- Frost Fire Park / Pembina Gorge Foundation
- Furry Friends Rockin’ Rescue
- Furniture Mission
- Grand Forks Senior Center
- Great Plains Food Bank
- Health Resources Center – Fergus Falls
- Heaven’s Helpers Soup Cafe
- Hope Blooms
- Lake Agassiz Habitat for Humanity
- Lakes Crisis & Resource Center
- Landon’s Light Foundation
- Legacy Children’s Foundation
- Lutheran Brethren Seminary
- Memory Cafe of the Red River Valley
- Ministry of the Margins
- New Life Center
- Northlands Rescue Mission
- Plains Art Museum
- Prairie Public Broadcasting
- Presentation Partners in Housing
- Red River Zoo
- Salvation Army Fargo – Moorhead
- ShareHouse
- St. John Paul II Catholic Schools
- UND Catholic at St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center
- United Way of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks & Area
- University of Mary
- Valley Christian Counseling Center
- Veterans Honor Flight of ND/MN
- West River Health Services Foundation
- Women’s Pregnancy Center
VISIONBank Best Giving Hearts Day Video
- Landon’s Light Foundation
- St. Joseph’s School
- CHI Friendship
SCHEELS All on Board
- American Red Cross
- Anne Carlsen Center
- Emergency Food Pantry
- Churches United – FM Dorothy Day House
- FirstLink
- Fix It Forward
- Fraser, LTD
- GiGi’s Playhouse Fargo
- Great Plains Food Bank
- Hope, Inc.
- Hospice of the Red River Valley
- Jail Chaplains
- Kamp Kace
- Legacy Children’s Foundation
- Mind Shift
- ND Autism Center
- Rape and Abuse Crisis Center
- Red River Children’s Advocacy Center
- Rondal McDonald House of the Red River Valley
- Saint Gianna’s Maternity Home
- St. Gerad’s Community of Care
- TNT Kids Fitness
- YWCA of Cass and Clay Counties
- YWCA Cass Clay
- Brady Oberg Legacy Foundation Fund
Bell Bank Pay It Forward
- Connect Medical Clinic
- New Life Center
- REACH
- Handi-Wheels Transportation
Sweepstake Sponsors
- Gate City Bank
- Catalyst Medical Center & Clinical Spa
- PRx Performance
- SCHEELS
- VISIONBank
Giving Hearts Volunteer
- Dorothy Olson, volunteer for Handi-Wheels
- John Brunsberg, volunteer for New Life Center
- Chris Wesland, volutneer for Down Home
Outstanding Giving Hearts Day School
- Legacy Elementary
- Liberty Middle School
- Clara Barton and Hawthorne Elementary
Giving Hearts Award
- Forum Communications & WDAY
- Bell Bank
- Jordahl Custom Homes