· Private foundation
C & K Cunningham Fam Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING | $100,000 |
| MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| MOUNT OLIVET LUTHERAN CHURCH | $29,400 |
| GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY | $15,000 |
| MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC | $10,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| THE MINNESOTA OPERA | $10,000 |
| MOUNT OLIVET DAY SERVICES | $9,000 |
| BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE | $8,000 |
| MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC | $5,500 |
| CATHEDRAL OF THE PINES INC | $5,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MCMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC6× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +37%
- SOST OLAF COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +56%
- COCathedral of the Pines Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
- MOMOUNT OLIVET CAREVIEWone grant, 2017 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
The guthrie theater engages exceptional theater artists in the exploration of both classic and contemporary plays, connecting the community we serve to one another and to the world. through its extraordinary artists, staff and facility,…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Orchestral Association and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 51 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cathedral of the Pines Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNT OLIVET CAREVIEW HOME ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNEHAHA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds MOUNT OLIVET DAY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA DARE INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Ea Michelson Philanthropy Co Family Philanthropy Advisors · Hardenbergh Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Hognander Foundation · Rodney and Barbara Burwell Family Foundation · Wenger Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization C & K Cunningham Fam Fdn funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.