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Carolyn Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
100
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Environment$683kEducation$483kArts & Culture$398kHealth$317kYouth Development$201kCommunity Improvement$186kHuman Services$143kCrime & Legal$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 100 grants below total $1,494,313 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,965,470 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $471,157 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k54 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $448k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Great MN Schools$100,000
Allina Health$100,000
MN350$100,000
Northeast College Prep$98,000
Park Place$50,000
Akiing 8th Fire$40,000
Institute for Local Self-Reliance$33,000
ISAIAH$33,000
Clean Up the River Environment (CURE)$33,000
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)$30,000
Center for Rural Affairs$30,000
Great Plains Institute$30,000
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)$30,000
Citizens Utility Board of MN$30,000
The Link Community Programs$30,000
02Your 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.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$134k · 3 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 95 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
95

Total granted

$134k
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+45%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & 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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS
    2× · 2019–2024 · $55k · revenue +216%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES
    2× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +53%
  • CI
    COMPAS INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INC
    one grant, 2019 · $190k · revenue -66%
  • NH
    NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $67k · revenue +11%
  • Rocky Mountain Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $51k · revenue +227%

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

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
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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3
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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4
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment
5
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
6
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
7
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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8
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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9
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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10
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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11
Conservation Minnesota

Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.

Environment
12
Minneapolis Downtown Council

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Northeast Minneapolis Tool Library. 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 Hospital SystemsCharter and Independent Sch…Indigenous Community Develo…Girls Stem Education Progra…Christian Youth CampsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development CentersEducation Equity InitiativesPregnancy Support CentersRotary Club FoundationsFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Government Accountability &…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…College Foundation SupportChristian Outreach Ministri…Local History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsPublic Library SupportCivil Legal ServicesProfessional Dance CompaniesClassical Music OrchestrasEnvironmental Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Theater Companies
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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr17%33%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr18%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%7%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr18%7%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%0/114
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,875

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.

03the grantee network

108 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. 108 of the 194 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/108
Grantees still filing
76/108
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INC — $190,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INCMinnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA) — $60,000 · OtherCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $55,000 · OtherRocky Mountain Institute — $51,000 · OtherALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $100,000 · OtherALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM+118 more — $938,162 · Other+118 moreGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $100,000 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSNortheast College Prep Charter School No 4219 — $98,000 · EducationNortheast College…AKIING 8TH FIRE — $40,000 · EducationAKIING 8TH FIREHENNEPIN SCHOOLS — $25,000 · EducationHENNEPIN SCHOOLSUpper Mississippi Academy — $24,656 · EducationUpper Mississippi…CONCEPTS FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING — $23,000 · EducationST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC — $23,000 · EducationSOLAR YOUTH INC — $23,000 · EducationMIGIZI Communications Inc — $20,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationHIGHER HEIGHTS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $15,000 · Education+8 more — $33,200 · Education+8 moreNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC — $66,500 · Arts & CultureNEW HAVEN INT…COMPAS INC — $35,700 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INCIN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS — $35,000 · Arts & CultureIN THE HEART …THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ELM SHAKE…THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTIC…NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAVEN SYM…Native American Community Development Institute — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNative Americ…WISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ARTS AND LETTERS — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWISCONSIN ACA…THREADS DANCE PROJECT — $21,500 · Arts & CultureTHREADS DANCE…ART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureART COUNCIL O…SOMALI MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $5,454 · Arts & CultureMN350 — $125,000 · EnvironmentMN350CLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $30,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP TH…CLEAN WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN WISCO…CLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) — $30,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN GRID …FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $25,400 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF …1000 FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN — $25,000 · Environment1000 FRIEND…ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND POLICY CENTER OF THE MIDWEST — $15,000 · Environment+8 more — $5,100 · EnvironmentPARK PLACE — $50,000 · Community ImprovementINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $33,000 · Community ImprovementGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementLake Street Council — $25,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $43,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Entrepreneurs Inc — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMinnesota Alliance With Youth — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $30,000 · Human ServicesPOWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Human ServicesURBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINC — $25,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,250 · Human Services
Other$1,394,162Education$439,856Arts & Culture$324,154Environment$285,500Community Improvement$138,000Youth Development$123,000Human Services$121,250

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 budgetMN350 — $125,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast College Prep Charter School No 4219 — $98,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC — $66,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $51,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK PLACE — $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $43,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAKIING 8TH FIRE — $40,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOMPAS INC — $35,700 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $35,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetIN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MAS — $35,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE — $33,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetISAIAH — $33,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLEAN UP THE RIVER ENVIRONMENT — $30,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCLEAN WISCONSIN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCanal Dock Boathouse Incorporated — $30,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetGREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLEAN GRID ALLIANCE (FNA WIND ON THE WIRES) — $30,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetONE HEARTLAND — $30,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — $25,400 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetVENN FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget1000 FRIENDS OF WISCONSIN — $25,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLake Street Council — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEW HAVENLEON SISTER PROJECT INCORPORATED — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNative American Community Development Institute — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHENNEPIN SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWISCONSIN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ARTS AND LETTERS — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUpper Mississippi Academy — $24,656 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCONCEPTS FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING — $23,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOLAR YOUTH INC — $23,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHREADS DANCE PROJECT — $21,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice inc — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 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 McKnight Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Newalliance Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Yale UniversityWilliam Caspar Graust…Mightycause Charitabl…PatagoniaorgJohn and Denise Grave…United Way of Greater…
The McKnight FoundationMN51.9× affinity26 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Yale University · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Patagoniaorg · John and Denise Graves Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc

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.

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 194 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.

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