How much does Cargill Foundation give?

Cargill Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $13,000,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Cargill Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (20%), Youth Development (19%), Education (16%).

Who are Cargill Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Achieve Twin Cities ($8.9M), Second Harvest Heartland ($6.7M), Greater Twin Cities United Way ($2.5M).

Does Cargill Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Cargill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Cargill Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.

Where is Cargill Foundation based?

Cargill Foundation is based in MN.

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Minnesota · Private foundation

Cargill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 95
Grants FY2024: 74
Organizations funded FY2023: 8%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $1,500,000
Organizations funded a year: 58 to 74; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $307M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Cargill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $306k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentReligionScience & TechOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	71	$13M	10%
FY2023	74	$13M	8%
FY2022	72	$14M	17%
FY2021	62	$11M	13%
FY2020	58	$11M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Achieve Twin Cities	$8,853,230	5	54%
Second Harvest Heartland	$6,680,000	5	1%
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$2,500,000	5	1%
Science Museum of Minnesota	$2,025,033	5	3%
Pillsbury United Communities	$1,575,000	5	4%
College Possible Inc	$1,575,000	5	2%
Serveminnesota	$1,475,656	5	1%
Youthprise	$1,392,500	5	9%
Food Group Minnesota Inc The	$1,366,000	5	3%
African American Leadership Forum	$1,277,361	4	25%

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All grantees of Cargill Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Achieve Twin Cities	$8,853,230	5	54%
Second Harvest Heartland	$6,680,000	5	1%
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$2,500,000	5	1%
Science Museum of Minnesota	$2,025,033	5	3%
Pillsbury United Communities	$1,575,000	5	4%
College Possible Inc	$1,575,000	5	2%
Serveminnesota	$1,475,656	5	1%
Youthprise	$1,392,500	5	9%
Food Group Minnesota Inc The	$1,366,000	5	3%
African American Leadership Forum	$1,277,361	4	25%
Breakthrough Twin Cities	$1,246,000	5	16%
The Good Acre	$1,136,000	4	23%
Young Mens Christian Association of the North	$1,111,025	5	0%
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation	$1,100,000	5	5%
Northside Economic Opportunity Network	$1,075,000	2	8%
Northside Achievement Zone	$1,050,000	5	2%
Appetite for Change Inc	$1,050,000	5	11%
St David's Center	$1,000,000	5	1%
YWCA of Minneapolis	$1,000,000	5	1%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$988,000	5	0%
Perspectives Inc	$923,333	4	9%
The Constellation Fund	$875,000	5	4%
Twin Cities Public Television Inc	$862,500	5	0%
Hiawatha Academies	$831,630	5	1%
Project Success	$750,000	5	3%
Guthrie Theater Foundation	$745,000	5	2%
Change Starts With Community	$743,145	3	20%
Minnesota Children's Museum	$710,000	5	4%
Junior Achievement North	$665,000	5	3%
Children's Theatre Company and School	$608,333	5	3%
MIGIZI Communications Inc	$585,000	3	8%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities	$575,000	5	3%
Science From Scientists Inc	$560,000	5	5%
Hunger Impact Partners	$525,000	5	44%
Youth Farm and Market Project	$485,000	5	16%
Renewing the Countryside	$475,000	5	15%
Communidades Latinas Unidas En Servico Inc	$460,000	5	2%
Urban Roots Mn	$455,000	4	11%
Providers Choice Inc	$425,000	5	0%
Minnesota Council on Foundations	$418,100	5	8%
Dream of Wild Health	$392,500	3	6%
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Foundation	$375,000	5	1%
Smart North	$375,000	3	27%
The Banyan Foundation	$355,000	5	7%
Minnesota State Horticultural Society	$345,000	5	12%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$330,000	5	0%
Centro Tyrone Guzman	$327,000	5	3%
Bestprep	$325,000	5	3%
Minnesota Zoo Foundation	$310,000	5	1%
Metropolitan Economic Development Association	$310,000	5	2%
30000 Feet	$300,000	2	6%
Saint Paul Public Schools	$300,000	3	n/a
KIPP Minnesota	$280,000	5	1%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$250,000	5	0%
Friends of the Mississippi River	$225,000	3	4%
Shiloh Temple Church	$215,000	1	n/a
NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc	$200,000	1	2%
Summit Academy Oic	$200,000	2	1%
Black Men Teach	$200,000	4	4%
Greenlight Fund Inc	$200,000	4	1%
Walker Art Center	$175,025	5	0%
Athletes Committed to Educating Students	$175,000	1	11%
The Arts Partnership	$155,000	1	2%
Project Scientist Inc	$150,000	3	3%
Penumbra Theatre Company Inc	$150,000	5	2%
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization	$150,000	2	n/a
Code Savvy	$130,000	1	32%
Handson Twin Cities	$115,500	4	3%
Wallin Education Partners	$100,000	2	0%
Minnesota Zoo	$100,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Historical Society	$100,000	5	0%
Urban Strategies Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Minneapolis Public School	$83,000	1	n/a
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc	$65,000	5	0%
Charities Review Council	$65,000	5	5%
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership	$23,000	2	0%
Hands on Atlanta Inc	$22,600	1	1%
Prepare and Prosper	$500	1	0%
People Responding in Social Ministry	$500	1	0%
Family Pathways	$500	1	0%
Feed My Starving Children Inc	$250	1	0%
Girls on the Run Minnesota Inc	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Cargill Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 77 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 77.

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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 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

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.

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About Cargill Foundation

How much does Cargill Foundation give?: Cargill Foundation reported 95 grants totaling $13,000,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 58 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Cargill Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (20%), Youth Development (19%), Education (16%).
Who are Cargill Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Achieve Twin Cities ($8.9M), Second Harvest Heartland ($6.7M), Greater Twin Cities United Way ($2.5M).
Does Cargill Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cargill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cargill Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.
Where is Cargill Foundation based?: Cargill Foundation is based in MN.