· Public charity
Centracare Health Foundation
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for religious, educational and charitable purposes, as contemplated and permitted by sections 170(c)(2) and 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $4,140,628 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,636,540 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $495,912 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST CLOUD HOSPITAL | $2,384,905 |
| CENTRACARE HEALTH | $843,240 |
| CENTRACARE CLINIC | $409,472 |
| CENTRACARE HEALTH - SAUK CENTRE | $295,959 |
| KWIK TRIP INC | $50,231 |
| INTERSTATE BOOKS4SCHOOL | $43,086 |
| CENTRACARE HEALTH - LONG PRAIRIE | $27,913 |
| CENTRACARE HEALTH - MELROSE | $23,477 |
| CARING CRADLE | $19,385 |
| ALL ABOUT BOOKS | $10,657 |
| MIGHTY CONSULTING LLC | $10,150 |
| CENTRACARE PHARMACY NORTHWAY | $8,855 |
| WALKING BILLBOARDS | $7,798 |
| WALT'S GAS STATION | $5,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SCST CLOUD HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $25M · revenue +34%
- CHCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM9× · 2017–2025 · $9.8M · revenue +202%
- CCCENTRACARE CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +63%
Funded once
- GSGREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $175k · revenue +6%
- CHCARRIS HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $167k
- TCTRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue +44%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
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…
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
We make a positive difference in the health of the patients and communities we serve.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To improve access to quality health care for all.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
Madison regional health system serves as a community health focal point through the provision of compassionate, quality, and innovative care.
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centracare Health System - Melrose and the most unlike its peers is National Kidney 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
32 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. 32 of the 51 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ST CLOUD HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM - LONG PRAIRIE ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM - SAUK CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM - MELROSE ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST CLOUD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRACE MN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITYGIVING ↗
- Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MINNESOTA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MILK BANK FOR BABIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE YES NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONNECTABILITY OF MN INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HANDS OF HOPE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds TEREBINTH REFUGE ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEGAL CARE ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Central Minnesota · Morgan Family Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Central Minnesota Arts Board · Ja Wedum Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly 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 Centracare Health 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.
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.