Red River Valley Fair Foundation

About Red River Valley Fair Foundation

Direct support to benefit the Red River Valley Fair Association is the clearest recent signal of how Red River Valley Fair Foundation operates: it funds the fair organization itself, alongside scholarship and donation programs tied to agriculture and youth. The foundation’s public summary says it is dedicated to educating and empowering the next generation of agriculture leaders through hands-on, experiential learning opportunities, which aligns with its stated focus on agricultural education, youth development and scholarships, livestock programs, and community events and engagement. The foundation’s grantmaking is anchored in the Red River Valley and West Fargo area, with a local scope and a recipient base centered in North Dakota. Its active scholarship program is open through a downloadable application, and its donation request program accepts requests from children’s organizations and agriculture-related events. Those mechanisms show a funder that mixes institutional support for fair operations with community-facing giving and student support. The grant taxonomy also points to county and regional fair support, agricultural and livestock exhibitions, and youth- and family-oriented fair programming, indicating that the fair remains the central platform for its philanthropy.

What Red River Valley Fair Foundation Funds

Agricultural education is a core theme for Red River Valley Fair Foundation. The public summary emphasizes educating and empowering the next generation of agriculture leaders through hands-on, experiential learning opportunities, and the foundation’s program structure reflects that emphasis through its scholarship program for North Dakota. Youth development appears in both scholarship support and broader community giving. Through the RRVF Scholarship Program, the foundation supports students, while its donation request program is open to children’s organizations. Livestock and fair programming are also part of the picture. The foundation lists livestock programs among its focus areas, and its topic taxonomy includes agricultural and livestock exhibitions as well as county and regional fair support. Community events and engagement round out the portfolio. The donation request program explicitly includes agriculture-related events, showing support for public-facing activities connected to the fair and the surrounding community.

How Red River Valley Fair Foundation Gives