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Arr Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Arr Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$171kHealth$166kPhilanthropy$157kYouth Development$69kPublic Safety & Disaster$53kHuman Services$52kArts & Culture$40kEducation$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$30,000
EVERY MEAL$26,666
CONSTELLATION FUND$20,000
GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
MIGIZI COMMUNICATIONS INC$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL$5,000
PRISM PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY$5,000
STEP ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM$5,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$5,000
LOPPET FOUNDATION$4,000
COOKIE CART$2,000
MARY MOTHER OF THE CHURCH$1,500
MN PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA$1,500
BENILDE ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL$1,500
WASHBURN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LAKELAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 12%LAKELAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $750 → 12%PRISM PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $10k → 11%PRISM PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $8k → 11%PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $8k → 11%PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $5k → 11%PRISM PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $5k → 11%PRISM PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $5k → 11%TWIN CITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST: $15k → 11%TWIN CITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST: $8k → 11%TWIN CITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST: $5k → 11%TWINCITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
WI
NY
OR
OH
UT
CO
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$665k · 20 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$665k
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+29%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • EM
    EVERY MEAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +558%
  • AH
    ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +26%
  • TC
    The Constellation Fund
    4× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SP
    SAINT PAUL & MN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • NI
    NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -83%
  • TS
    THE SHERIDAN STORY FIGHTING CHILD HUNGER
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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2
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
3
Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation
Health
4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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5
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
6
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
7
Leadingage Minnesota Foundation

The foundation supports initiatives designed to transform and enhance the experience of aging. the focus is on: catalytic change in building the workforce for tomorrow; advancing new approaches to service delivery; and developing…

Human Services
8
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
9
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
10
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
11
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
12
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Courage Kenny Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Waterwheel Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EVERY MEAL: $157,500 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL+2 more: $3,500 · Food & NutritionST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC: $29,000 · OtherST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PR…COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATIONGOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOL: $20,500 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD SCHOOLSAINT PAUL & MN FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL & MN FOUNDATIONST MARY OF THE LAKE: $13,000 · OtherST MARY OF THE LAKETHE SHERIDAN STORY FIGHTING CHILD HUNGER: $10,000 · OtherTHE SHERIDAN STORY FIGHTIN…BENILDE ST MARGARETS HIGH SCHOOL: $8,500 · OtherMARY MOTHER OF THE CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE…THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · OtherThe Cookie Cart: $6,500 · Other+17 more: $23,000 · Other+17 moreALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $120,000 · HealthALLINA HEALTH FOUND…Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthGundersen Lutheran …BACKLINE CARE INC: $4,750 · HealthThe Constellation Fund: $110,000 · PhilanthropyThe Constellatio…+2 more: $5,250 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $40,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESP…Twin Cities Music Community Trust: $29,500 · Human ServicesTwin Cities…LAKELAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,750 · Human ServicesLAKELAND FA…MIGIZI Communications Inc: $62,000 · EducationMIGIZI Co…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $40,000 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$161,000Other$182,500Health$134,750Philanthropy$115,250Human Services$80,250Education$62,000Community Improvement$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEVERY MEAL: $157,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $110,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc: $62,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Music Community Trust: $29,500 over 4y, 81% of budgetST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC: $29,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAKELAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,750 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $4,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budget30-DAYS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELL LAKE FIRE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Constellation Fund ↗
  • Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Music Community Trust ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKELAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL INDEPENDENT VENUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
  • Who funds BACKLINE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WATERWHEEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 30-DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds MATTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SHELL LAKE FIRE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THREE RIVERS PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…The Graco FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…The K FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…United Way Worldwide
The Minneapolis FoundationMN25× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The K Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · United Way Worldwide

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arr Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arr Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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