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Cargill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
95
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$13MYouth Development$13MEducation$11MCommunity Improvement$6.4MArts & Culture$6.1MPhilanthropy$6.1MHuman Services$3.5MHealth$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 95 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $372k
  • $50k–250k60 grants · $6.8M
  • $250k+13 grants · $5.8M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$307M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$1,500,000
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES$708,333
YOUTHPRISE$500,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$500,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE$450,000
SERVEMINNESOTA$300,606
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES$300,000
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES$285,600
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM$277,361
ST DAVID'S CENTER FOR CHILD AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT$250,000
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$250,000
APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC$250,000
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM$250,000
ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES$235,000
THE FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC$225,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $500 → 5%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $50k → 21%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $50k → 21%PREPARE AND PROSPER: $500 → 14%BLACK MEN TEACH: $50k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $50k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $50k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $250k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $225k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH: $225k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $200k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $50k → 14%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $75k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $64k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $64k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $64k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $60k → 11%PRISM: $500 → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $250k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $250k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $250k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $200k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $100k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $125k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $50k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $225k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $200k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $200k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $150k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$61M · 74 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
10

Total granted

$61M
$924k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+8%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $579k 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
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +31%
  • SM
    SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +51%
  • CP
    COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • ST
    SHILOH TEMPLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $215k
  • NH
    NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -2%
  • TA
    The Arts Partnership
    one grant, 2023 · $155k · revenue -10%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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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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
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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4
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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6
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
7
Minnesota State Council On Economic Education

Mcee equips minnesotans with the economic and personal financial knowledge and skills to make informed decisions and thrive in our complex world. we fulfill our mission by teaching teachers through top quality professional development and…

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8
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
9
Minneapolis Downtown Council

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

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10
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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11
Leadership Matters Mn

Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Perspectives Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEthnic and Faith Community …Community Solutions Organiz…Minnesota Community Foundat…Environmental Conservation …Charter and Independent Sch…Family Philanthropic Founda…Professional Trade Associat…Youth Empowerment & Domesti…Healthcare Access & Disease…Community Arts & Performance
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr13%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr15%40%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/86
the rest of the field
14%
1,903/13,179

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 95 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
56/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES — $8,853,230 · Youth DevelopmentACHIEVE TWIN CITIE…ST DAVID'S CENTER — $1,000,000 · Youth DevelopmentST DAVID'S CENTERBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $575,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG S…+2 more — $300,250 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $1,575,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE I…Youthprise — $1,392,500 · EducationYouthpriseAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $1,277,361 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN L…Breakthrough Twin Cities — $1,246,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin …UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $988,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINN…HIAWATHA ACADEMIES — $831,630 · EducationHIAWATHA ACADEMIESPROJECT SUCCESS — $750,000 · EducationPROJECT SUCCESSMIGIZI Communications Inc — $585,000 · EducationMIGIZI Communicati…SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $560,000 · EducationRENEWING THE COUNTRYSIDE — $475,000 · Education+5 more — $905,000 · Education+5 morePILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $1,575,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIESURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDA…PERSPECTIVES INC — $923,333 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA TWIN CITIES — $700,000 · OtherSERVEMINNESOTA — $1,475,656 · OtherSERVEMINNESOTANORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $1,075,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY N…NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $1,050,000 · OtherNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONECHANGE STARTS WITH COMMUNITY — $743,145 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $665,000 · Other+34 more — $9,177,350 · Other+34 moreSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $6,680,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST H…FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $1,366,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNE…THE GOOD ACRE — $1,136,000 · Food & NutritionTHE GOOD ACREHUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS — $525,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER IMPACT PA…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $2,025,033 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MU…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $862,500 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIE…GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $745,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE TH…Minnesota Children's Museum — $710,000 · Arts & CultureMinnesota …Children's Theatre Company and School — $608,333 · Arts & CultureChildren's…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $330,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA …MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $580,025 · Arts & Culture+4 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $2,500,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER T…SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $1,425,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAU…The Constellation Fund — $875,000 · PhilanthropyThe Const…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNE…Women's Foundation of Minnesota — $200,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $152,600 · PhilanthropyYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $1,111,025 · Human ServicesAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC — $1,050,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN — $327,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men Teach — $200,000 · Human Services+4 more — $101,500 · Human Services
Youth Development$10,728,480Education$10,585,491Other$18,484,484Food & Nutrition$9,707,000Arts & Culture$6,110,891Philanthropy$5,652,600Human Services$3,789,525

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES — $8,853,230 over 5y, 54% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $6,680,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $2,500,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $2,025,033 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $1,575,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $1,575,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA — $1,475,656 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $1,425,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYouthprise — $1,392,500 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $1,366,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $1,277,361 over 4y, 25% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities — $1,246,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE GOOD ACRE — $1,136,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $1,111,025 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $1,100,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $1,075,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE — $1,050,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC — $1,050,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER — $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS — $1,000,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $988,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC — $923,333 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetThe Constellation Fund — $875,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $862,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHIAWATHA ACADEMIES — $831,630 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT SUCCESS — $750,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $745,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCHANGE STARTS WITH COMMUNITY — $743,145 over 3y, 20% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum — $710,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH — $665,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $608,333 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMIGIZI Communications Inc — $585,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $575,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $560,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetHUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS — $525,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYouth Farm and Market Project — $485,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetRENEWING THE COUNTRYSIDE — $475,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICO INC — $460,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetURBAN ROOTS MN — $455,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPROVIDERS CHOICE INC — $425,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMinnesota Council on Foundations — $418,100 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetDream of Wild Health — $392,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $375,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSMART NORTH — $375,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation — $355,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $345,000 over 5y, 12% of budget
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 ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVEMINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Youthprise ↗
  • Who funds FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD ACRE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Constellation Fund ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds HIAWATHA ACADEMIES ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHANGE STARTS WITH COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
  • Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
  • Who funds MIGIZI Communications Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER IMPACT PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Youth Farm and Market Project ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Otto Bremer TrustFr Bigelow FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Greater Twin Cities U…Mortenson Family Foun…YouthpriseHb Fuller Company Fou…Xcel Energy FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Ch Robinson Worldwide…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN76.2× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Youthprise · Hb Fuller Company Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 Cargill Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    33report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Cargill Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Cargill 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 95 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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