· Private foundation
Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Blackbaud Giving Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 83 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 871 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k898 grants · $679k
- $10k–50k89 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $155,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $150,050 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS (ICRC) | $148,502 |
| SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGE USA INC | $144,840 |
| WOMEN IN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| JDRF MINNDAKOTAS | $63,788 |
| TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING | $60,000 |
| NEXUS COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $55,000 |
| STICHTING SMART FREIGHT CENTRE | $55,000 |
| PROPEL NONPROFITS | $55,000 |
| GOOD360 | $55,000 |
| AWESOME FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION | $55,000 |
| CHARITIES REVIEW COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA | $55,000 |
| NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $50,150 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 24% of Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
904 repeat relationships — 521 still active in FY2022, 383 since wound down; 328 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND7× · 2017–2023 · $648k · revenue +119%
- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA6× · 2017–2022 · $519k · revenue +309%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D7× · 2017–2024 · $347k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- YYWCAone grant, 2020 · $100k
- NMNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY UPPER MIDWEST CHAPTERone grant, 2017 · $89k
- SCST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
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…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Be Alright. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
1487 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. 1487 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PACER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AWESOME LEADERS NFP ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES TOO ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds TRIO ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD360 ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
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: Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · The K Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Target Foundation · Pentair Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family
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 Ch Robinson Worldwide 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Truckers Against Trafficking — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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