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Centracare Health System

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

$290k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$687kRecreation & Sports$276kHousing & Shelter$200kPhilanthropy$104kScience & Tech$50kEducation$40kCommunity Improvement$26kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $148,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $289,886 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $141,786 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACTIVE CENTRAL MN$40,000
ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
CENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$25,000
FIRST$25,000
GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM$12,500
WILLMAR STINGERS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION$10,600
ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN: $19k → 9%INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%THE RAE MACKENZIE GROUP: $6k → 11%CENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $132k → 11%REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%WILLMAR STINGERS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $11k → 9%ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%WILLMAR STINGERS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $11k → 9%UNITED WAY: $23k → 11%WILLMAR STINGERS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%UNITED WAY: $10k → 11%ST CLOUD AREA YMCA: $9k → 11%ST CLOUD AREA FAMILY YMCA: $9k → 11%JUNIOR ACHEIVEMENT OF THE UPPER MIDWEST INC: $5k → 11%SARTELL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER: $100k → 11%MINNESOTA HOSA: $21k → 11%ACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $40k → 11%ACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $40k → 11%ACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $40k → 11%CITY OF WAITE PARK: $6k → 11%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $155k → 11%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 11%CENTRAL MN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100k → 11%CENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50k → 11%CENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25k → 11%CENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25k → 11%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $18k → 11%GREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $13k → 11%CITY OF ST CLOUD: $10k → 11%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY GIVING: $10k → 11%ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 8 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +0% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$1.0M
$191k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+0%
-5%

Still filing today

75%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyHealthInternationalScience & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RH
    REGIONS HOSPITAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +35%
  • FI
    For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +0%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
    3× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • SY
    SARTELL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER ASS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -50%
  • DC
    Downtown Council of St Cloud
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -5% · 43% of their budget
  • HO
    HEALTH OCCUPATIONS STUDENTS OF MN
    one grant, 2024 · $21k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
2
St Cloud Hospital

We're here for your whole life - to listen then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

Health
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
Centracare Health System - Sauk Centre

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

Health
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
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
7
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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8
Minnesota Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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9
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
10
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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11
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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12
Community Shares of Minnesota

The mission of community shares of minnesota is to create a fair, just and equitable minnesota. community shares of minnesota accomplishes its mission by: supporting collective action to eliminate root causes of inequality and injustice;…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Health Occupations Students of Mn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $478,100 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGECENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $200,000 · OtherCENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITYUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $48,525 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTAWILLMAR STINGERS BASEBALL ASSOCIATION: $31,680 · Other+8 more: $95,620 · Other+8 moreCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $132,387 · HealthCENTRACARE HEALTH …REGIONS HOSPITAL: $75,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITALREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL F…ACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $120,000 · Recreation & SportsACTIVE CENTRAL MNSARTELL YOUTH RECREATION CENTER ASS: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsSARTELL YOUTH REC…COMMUNITYGIVING: $37,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN: $18,823 · PhilanthropyFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $50,000 · Science & TechST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$853,925Health$232,387Recreation & Sports$220,000Philanthropy$55,823Science & Tech$50,000Education$35,000Arts & Culture$12,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $200,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $132,387 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetACTIVE CENTRAL MN: $120,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFor Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST): $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $48,525 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING: $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDowntown Council of St Cloud: $25,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MN: $18,823 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSt Cloud Area Family YMCA: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT RIVER CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

CommunitygivingGranite Partners Foun…Morgan Family Foundat…Rick and Helga Bauerl…Initiative FoundationXcel Energy FoundationCentral Mn Noon Optim…United Way of Central…Southwest Initiative …Otto Bremer TrustDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
CommunitygivingMN25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · United Way of Central Minnesota · Southwest Initiative Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Centracare Health System funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Centracare Health System. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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