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Caridad Corporation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$199kPublic Benefit$123kArts & Culture$61kEducation$58kHuman Services$42kReligion$35kAnimals$30kCrime & Legal$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$500
Median grant
6
States reached
$121k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION$125,000
MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$10,000
SUN VALLEY WRITERS CONFERENCE$6,200
COMMUNITY LIBRARY$4,000
MN LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION$2,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$500
UPPER MIDWEST LAW CANTER$500
JUDICIAL WATCH$500
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$250
ALPA NEWS$250
LIVING WITH WOLVES$250
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$250
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, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $50 → 14%INTERMOUNTAIN THERAPY ANIMALS: $500 → 8%WECAN: $1k → 11%WECAN: $500 → 11%WECAN: $500 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $500 → 14%WECAN: $500 → 11%WECAN: $500 → 11%WECAN: $500 → 11%WECAN: $500 → 11%TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $3k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $1k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $500 → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICES: $500 → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $250 → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES: $10k → 11%HAMMER RESIDENCES: $10k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$627k · 61 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
31

Total granted

$627k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • CO
    Center of the American Experiment
    5× · 2020–2024 · $102k · revenue +34%
  • MC
    MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +148%
  • HR
    Hammer Residences Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • HR
    HOLY ROSARY CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • MH
    MOUNTAIN HUMANE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue ×45

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
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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4
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
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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7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
9
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
10
Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment
11
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Top Dog Foundation 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsYouth Development ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Equine Therapy ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Developmental Disabilities …Cancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…United Way AffiliatesFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts Centers
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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr16%38%35–55yr18%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%11%20–35yr16%65%35–55yr18%19%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,918

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

68 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. 68 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
47/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $172,500 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FO…+3 more — $7,250 · HealthUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $13,500 · OtherUNION GOSPEL MISSION INCCOMMUNITY LIBRARY — $10,250 · OtherHOLY ROSARY CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherST MARTIN'S CHURCH — $8,500 · OtherALPHA NU TRUST FUND INC — $10,750 · OtherUPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER — $9,000 · OtherTwin Cities Rise — $12,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $11,350 · OtherALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $10,500 · Other+60 more — $147,139 · Other+60 moreCenter of the American Experiment — $102,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter of the Ame…+2 more — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $51,000 · Arts & CultureMINNETONK…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $2,870 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureHammer Residences Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $8,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $5,250 · Human ServicesWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $4,000 · Human Services+4 more — $2,050 · Human ServicesSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $13,000 · EducationThe Charlemagne Institute — $11,000 · EducationCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $5,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $4,000 · Education+3 more — $875 · EducationCARVER SCOTT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $12,000 · AnimalsANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE — $5,500 · AnimalsPET PARTNERS — $2,500 · AnimalsLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD — $1,750 · Animals
Health$179,750Other$242,989Youth Development$104,000Arts & Culture$54,370Human Services$39,800Education$33,875Animals$21,750

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 budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $172,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment — $102,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $51,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetHammer Residences Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $13,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTwin Cities Rise — $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCARVER SCOTT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY — $12,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $11,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlemagne Institute — $11,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetALPHA NU TRUST FUND INC — $10,750 over 3y, 45% of budgetALLIANCE HOUSING INC — $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER — $9,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC — $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $7,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUN VALLEY FIRE DEPARTMENT — $5,400 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $4,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHIRED — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOP DOG FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $2,870 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $2,620 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPET PARTNERS — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD — $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH — $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association — $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHI PHI EDUCATIONAL TRUST — $1,249 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

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…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustThe Graco FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…The James M Stanton F…The Head Family Found…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Xcel Energy FoundationThe K FoundationCatholic Community Fo…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN34.8× affinity18 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 · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Graco Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The James M Stanton Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The K Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota

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 Caridad Corporation 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 · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 98 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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