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C K Blandin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
931
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$335k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$25MCommunity Improvement$12MHuman Services$7.8MArts & Culture$7.7MPublic Benefit$3.7MPhilanthropy$3.2MHousing & Shelter$2.7MHealth$2.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 931 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k747 grants · $1.6M
  • $10k–50k88 grants · $2.5M
  • $50k–250k86 grants · $8.6M
  • $250k+10 grants · $3.1M
$2,900
Median grant
1
States reached
$506M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND$335,000
ITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$333,333
ITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$333,333
ITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$333,333
ITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$333,333
ITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$333,333
ITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE$333,333
LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MN$250,000
MISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL HEALTH CENTER$250,000
MISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL HEALTH CENTER$250,000
ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC$240,000
MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE$240,000
MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE$240,000
ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC$240,000
MINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE$240,000
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 (FY20–24, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $150k → 14%DLCCC INC: $90k → 10%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $150k → 14%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $150k → 14%NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $50k → 14%NORTH SHORE AREA PARTNERS: $90k → 8%LAKES AREA FOOD SHELF INCORPORATED: $90k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $150k → 14%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $125k → 14%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $125k → 14%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $100k → 14%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $100k → 14%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $100k → 14%AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $75k → 11%AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $75k → 11%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $50k → 14%LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $50k → 14%FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $51k → 15%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $300k → 11%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $300k → 11%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $240k → 11%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $240k → 11%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $150k → 11%NORTH HOMES INC: $125k → 11%NORTH HOMES INC: $125k → 11%NORTH HOMES INC: $125k → 11%NORTH HOMES INC: $125k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $120k → 11%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $100k → 11%ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $95k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $80k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $75k → 11%GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $75k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $67k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $67k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $67k → 11%ELDERCIRCLE: $67k → 11%GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $60k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $50k → 11%GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $50k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $50k → 11%GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $50k → 11%GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $50k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $50k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $50k → 11%ADVOCATES FOR FAMILY PEACE: $50k → 11%GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $50k → 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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of C K Blandin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 95%.

C K Blandin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 890 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

890 repeat relationships: 409 still active in FY2024, 481 since wound down; 229 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

890
332

Total granted

$59M
$8.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+17%

Still filing today

11%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KC
    KOOTASCA COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +14%
  • IE
    ITASCA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +10% · 42% of their budget
  • IC
    ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF HILL CITY
    one grant, 2022 · $156k
  • LA
    LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -35%
  • IC
    ITASCA COUNTY HOUSINGREDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
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
Northwest Minnesota Arts Council

Support and enhance the development of the arts in northwestern minnesota. facilitate and encourage the creation and appreciation of the arts.

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
4
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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5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Association of Minnesota Counties

The association of minnesota counties is a voluntary non-partisan statewide organization that assists the state's 87 counties in providing effective county governance to the people of minnesota.

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7
Winona Area Chamber of Commerce

To promote business development and tourism in winona minnesota and the surrounding area

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8
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Agri-Growth Council Inc

The mission of the minnesota agri-growth council is to advocate for minnesota's food and agriculture industry by serving as a unified voice and promoting relationships with allied industries.

—
10
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
11
St Cloud Downtown Alliance Foundation

Enhancing and strengthening our community and our regional core.

—
12
Lake Region Arts Council

To encourage and support the vitality of the arts in west central minnesota

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts; the most unlike its peers is Madison Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

220 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. 220 of the 1,463 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.

40
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
214/220
Grantees still filing
129/220
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $11,208,330 · OtherITASCA AREA SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVEKOOTASCA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2,681,240 · OtherKOOTASCA COMMUNITY ACTION INCMINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE: $2,486,275 · OtherMINNESOTA NORTH COLLEGE+132 more: $26,847,276 · Other+132 moreITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $1,468,576 · Human ServicesITASCA CO…LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $905,000 · Human ServicesLEECH LAK…NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $540,650 · Human ServicesNATIVE GO…NORTH HOMES INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesNORTH HOM…ELDERCIRCLE: $472,900 · Human ServicesELDERCIRC…GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $365,060 · Human ServicesGRACE HOU…Advocates for Family Peace: $354,600 · Human ServicesAdvocates…+7 more: $618,090 · Human Services+7 moreGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,739,867 · Community ImprovementGRAND RAP…ITASCA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR: $1,485,000 · Community ImprovementITASCA EC…Center For Rural Policy & Development: $370,000 · Community ImprovementCenter Fo…UPPER MIDWEST FILM OFFICE: $350,000 · Community ImprovementUPPER MID…INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $182,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHERN MINNESOTA INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $175,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $813,975 · Community Improvement+7 moreITASCA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC: $750,120 · Arts & CultureREIF ARTS COUNCIL: $724,513 · Arts & CultureZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY: $320,000 · Arts & CultureDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION: $240,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $220,400 · Arts & CultureJudy Garland Childrens Museum: $200,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN MINNESOTA PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureTOWER-SOUDAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureWELLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $125,000 · Arts & CultureGRANITE AREA ARTS COUNCIL: $125,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $565,000 · Arts & CultureItasca Community College Foundation: $1,790,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $651,600 · EducationMINNESOTA NEWS MEDIA INSTITUTE INC: $126,000 · EducationALL NATIONS RISE INC: $120,000 · Education+2 more: $135,000 · EducationBIGFORK VALLEY FOUNDATION: $806,300 · HealthMISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL DBA NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER: $500,000 · HealthFIRST CALL FOR HELP OF ITASCA COUNTY: $385,000 · HealthSUPPORT WITHIN REACH: $300,500 · HealthBoundary Waters Care Center: $95,000 · HealthMAJI YA CHAI LAND SANCTUARY: $90,000 · Health+1 more: $60,000 · HealthNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $297,000 · PhilanthropyMinnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc: $282,100 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES: $279,263 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVING: $266,000 · PhilanthropyPROPEL NONPROFITS: $256,667 · PhilanthropyWEST CENTRAL INITIATIVE: $172,150 · PhilanthropyWomen's Foundation of Minnesota: $150,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $111,000 · Philanthropy
Other$43,223,121Human Services$5,224,876Community Improvement$5,115,842Arts & Culture$3,655,033Education$2,823,100Health$2,236,800Philanthropy$1,814,180

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKOOTASCA COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $2,681,240 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetItasca Community College Foundation: $1,790,500 over 5y, 54% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,739,867 over 5y, 15% of budgetITASCA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR: $1,485,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC: $1,468,576 over 5y, 12% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND: $1,380,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC: $905,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetBIGFORK VALLEY FOUNDATION: $806,300 over 5y, 85% of budgetNORTHERN COMMUNITY RADIO INC: $752,114 over 5y, 22% of budgetITASCA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC: $750,120 over 5y, 43% of budgetREIF ARTS COUNCIL: $724,513 over 5y, 31% of budgetMINNESOTA DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES INC: $675,650 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $651,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH: $633,900 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED: $587,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER: $540,650 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL DBA NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER: $500,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetNORTH HOMES INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEECH LAKE AREA INC: $495,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetNORTHLAND AREA FAMILY SERVICE CTR: $482,500 over 5y, 28% of budgetELDERCIRCLE: $472,900 over 5y, 14% of budgetSECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK: $447,506 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFIRST CALL FOR HELP OF ITASCA COUNTY: $385,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetREGIONAL NATIVE PUBLIC DEFENSE CORP: $370,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetCenter For Rural Policy & Development: $370,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetNORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC: $370,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY: $365,060 over 5y, 20% of budgetAdvocates for Family Peace: $354,600 over 5y, 18% of budgetUPPER MIDWEST FILM OFFICE: $350,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetANISHINABE LEGAL SERVICES: $350,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetMACROSTIE ART CENTER: $327,838 over 5y, 25% of budgetEDGE OF THE WILDERNESS COMMUNITY CENTER: $321,350 over 5y, 81% of budgetZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY: $320,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetITASCA ORCHESTRA & STRINGS PROGRAM: $318,700 over 5y, 48% of budgetSUPPORT WITHIN REACH: $300,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetVOICES FOR RACIAL JUSTICE: $300,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetNORTHLAND FOUNDATION: $297,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMinnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc: $282,100 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF 1000 LAKES: $279,263 over 5y, 29% of budgetITASCA YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $277,200 over 5y, 50% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $275,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING: $266,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $256,667 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Cafe Inc: $242,650 over 5y, 44% of budgetDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC TRANSFORMATION: $240,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMARCELL FAMILY CENTER FOUNDATION: $240,000 over 5y, 69% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $220,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJudy Garland Childrens Museum: $200,000 over 5y, 33% 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 KOOTASCA COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds Itasca Community College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ITASCA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPOR ↗
  • Who funds ITASCA COUNTY FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND ↗
  • Who funds LEECH LAKE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds BIGFORK VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN COMMUNITY RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds ITASCA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds REIF ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
  • Who funds ARROWHEAD ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY AGENCY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE GOVERNANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI HEADWATERS AREA DENTAL DBA NORTHERN DENTAL ACCESS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NORTH HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LEECH LAKE AREA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND AREA FAMILY SERVICE CTR ↗
  • Who funds ELDERCIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CALL FOR HELP OF ITASCA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL NATIVE PUBLIC DEFENSE CORP ↗
  • Who funds Center For Rural Policy & Development ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ENTREPRENEUR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds GRACE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Advocates for Family Peace ↗
  • Who funds UPPER MIDWEST FILM OFFICE ↗

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 McKnight Foundati…Grand Rapids Area Com…Mardag FoundationOtto Bremer TrustMinnesota Power Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Northland FoundationMinnesota Community F…The Bush FoundationMinnesota Historical …Duluth-Superior Area …The Minneapolis Found…
The McKnight FoundationMN86.3× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Power Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Bush Foundation · Minnesota Historical Society · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · The Minneapolis 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 Blandin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C K Blandin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    66report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to C K Blandin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to C K Blandin Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 1463 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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