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C & K Cunningham Fam Fdn at a glance

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C & K Cunningham Fam Fdn

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$327k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$264kPhilanthropy$227kEducation$115kHuman Services$102kHealth$70kReligion$52kRecreation & Sports$35kYouth Development$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$100,000
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION$75,000
MOUNT OLIVET LUTHERAN CHURCH$29,400
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$15,000
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$10,000
THE MINNESOTA OPERA$10,000
MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC$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
GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY$3,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $5k → 5%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $6k → 5%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $6k → 5%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES: $6k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $3k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $3k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $3k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $3k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $3k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $3k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MN: $3k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE: $2k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $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

MN
IL
WI
MA
IA
CA
NC
DC
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$673k · 31 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
10

Total granted

$673k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+3%

Still filing today

74%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGE
    6× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +56%
  • MC
    MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +37%
  • CO
    Cathedral of the Pines Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • MO
    MOUNT OLIVET CAREVIEW
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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 Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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3
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

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.

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4
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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.

Education
5
Ecumen

We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.

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6
Minnesota Hospital Association

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…

Community Improvement
7
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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8
Guthrie Theater Foundation

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,…

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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10
Minnesota Grocers Association

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…

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11
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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12
Augsburg University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Orchestral Association; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 47 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $160,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIA…MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSICSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $18,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTAThe Minnesota Opera: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GI…GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $27,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED …MOUNT OLIVET LUTHERAN CHURCH: $43,900 · OtherMOUNT OLIVET LUTHERAN C…GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $14,000 · OtherGREATER TWIN CITIES YOU…MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $12,000 · OtherMINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHON…ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherABBOTT NORTHWESTERN FOU…ACES: $12,000 · OtherACESBEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherMOUNT OLIVET DAY SERVICES: $12,000 · OtherMOUNT OLIVET DAY SERVIC…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $10,000 · OtherMINNESOTA DARE INC: $7,000 · Other+14 more: $52,000 · Other+14 moreGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $56,000 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLP…ST OLAF COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEG…MINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $19,000 · EducationMINNEHAHA ACAD…ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS: $9,000 · EducationATHLETES COMMI…MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesMOUNT OLIV…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $21,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN S…GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $18,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MI…PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT OLIVET CAREVIEW HOME: $29,000 · HealthROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · HealthROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthCathedral of the Pines Inc: $33,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$236,500Philanthropy$227,000Other$192,900Education$124,000Human Services$89,500Health$41,000Recreation & Sports$33,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $160,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $56,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCathedral of the Pines Inc: $33,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNT OLIVET CAREVIEW HOME: $29,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $21,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $14,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNT OLIVET DAY SERVICES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA DARE INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOCALESSENCE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST OLAF COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
  • 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 GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT OLIVET DAY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ATHLETES COMMITTED TO EDUCATING STUDENTS ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA DARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROGERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
  • Who funds ROGERS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCALESSENCE ↗

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.

Fred C and Katherine …Mightycause Charitabl…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Ea Michelson Philanth…Hardenbergh FoundationThrivent Charitable I…The Richard M Schulze…Baird Foundation IncHognander FoundationRodney and Barbara Bu…Wenger Foundation
Fred C and Katherine B Andersen FoundationMN19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 C & K Cunningham Fam Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C & K Cunningham Fam Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 47 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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