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Carol Dines Family Foundation

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.

$59k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$878k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Landmark Conservancy$7,500
University of Minnesota Foundation$7,500
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$5,000
Minnesota Public Radio$5,000
Second Harvest Heartland$5,000
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$5,000
Planned Parenthood MN ND SD$5,000
Rainforest Action Network$2,500
National Audubon Society$2,500
Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness$2,500
National Park Foundation$2,500
Natural Resources Defense Council$2,500
Speaking Out Collective$2,500
The Nature Conservancy$2,500
Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$1,000
02The need
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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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $1k → 8%Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness: $3k → 8%University of Minnesota Foundation: $8k → 11%Planned Parenthood MN ND SD: $5k → 14%Rainforest Action Network: $3k → 10%Natural Resources Defense Council: $3k → 17%National Park Foundation: $3k → 14%Landmark Conservancy: $8k → 11%The Nature Conservancy: $3k → 7%Second Harvest Heartland: $5k → 11%Twin Cities Public Television Inc: $5k → 14%National Audubon Society: $3k → 17%Speaking Out Collective: $3k → 11%Minnesota Public Radio: $5k → 14%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

MN
WI
NY
MA
CA
VA
AZ
DC

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 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.

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Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
4
Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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5
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
6
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
7
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
8
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
9
Environment Now
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10
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
11
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
12
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment

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

03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 15 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
4/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INCRainforest Action Network — $2,500 · EnvironmentRainforest Action NetworkNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $2,500 · EnvironmentNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR …NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COU…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO A…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEV…Speaking Out Collective — $2,500 · Arts & CultureSpeaking Out CollectiveUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …THE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,500 · OtherTHE NATURE CON…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $2,500 · OtherNATIONAL PARK …National Audubon Society — $2,500 · OtherNational Audub…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $5,000 · HealthPLANNED P…SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $5,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HA…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $5,000 · AnimalsCENTER FO…THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $1,000 · International
Environment$15,000Arts & Culture$12,500Education$7,500Other$7,500Health$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Animals$5,000International$1,000

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 budgetLANDMARK CONSERVANCY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainforest Action Network — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpeaking Out Collective — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Carol Dines Family 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 15 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.

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