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Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2022
1,005
Grants FY2022
46
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

282
’17
402
’18
659
’19
678
’20
855
’21
871
’22
82
’23
83
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.1MEducation$3.3MHealth$3.2MFood & Nutrition$2.2MHuman Services$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MInternational$741kCivil Rights$603kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1005 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k898 grants · $679k
  • $10k–50k89 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.4M
$250
Median grant
46
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GOOD360$55,000
AWESOME FOUNDATION$55,000
PROPEL NONPROFITS$55,000
CHARITIES REVIEW COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA$55,000
STICHTING SMART FREIGHT CENTRE$55,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION$55,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC$50,150
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $10k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $12k → 14%ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $10k → 7%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $40k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $35k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $100k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $22k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50k → 17%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $18k → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $50k → 17%FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $10k → 11%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 14%WOMEN OF NATIONS: $25k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $100k → 17%BLACK MEN TEACH: $15k → 14%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $100k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $25k → 17%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $13k → 11%MUJERES LATINAS EN ACCION INC: $11k → 14%UJAMAA PLACE: $50k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $33k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $31k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $30k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $25k → 11%THE LINK: $17k → 11%EQUALITY PATHWAYS TO POTENTIAL: $17k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $15k → 11%THE LINK: $11k → 11%THE LINK: $10k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $206k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $110k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $101k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $52k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $42k → 11%URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $30k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $15k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $15k → 11%FRASER: $15k → 11%FRASER: $13k → 11%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $11k → 11%CORNERSTONE ADVOCACY SERVICE: $10k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS MINNESOTA REGION: $55k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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CA
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CO
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VA
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AR
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NC
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LA
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AL
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 24% of Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 904 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

904
744

Total granted

$13M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

80%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    7× · 2017–2023 · $648k · revenue +96%
  • OA
    OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $519k · revenue +309%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    7× · 2017–2024 · $347k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • Y
    YWCA
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • NM
    NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY UPPER MIDWEST CHAPTER
    one grant, 2017 · $89k
  • SC
    ST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
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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2
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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3
Midwest Dairy Association

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.

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4
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
5
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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6
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
7
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
8
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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9
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
10
Npr Foundation

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…

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11
Great Mn Schools

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.

Education
12
Reach for Resources Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

1487 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. 1487 of the 2,000 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
325
Early backer (in before they grew)
1434/1487
Grantees still filing
1047/1487
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $4,408,260 · PhilanthropyTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUNDTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $354,011 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION+9 more: $380,110 · Philanthropy+9 moreSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC: $373,712 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INCPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $350,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIESSTICHTING SMART FREIGHT CENTRE: $205,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $300,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSIONNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $201,265 · Other+91 more: $3,970,435 · Other+91 moreOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $519,002 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF …GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO COD…NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBA…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $182,579 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $134,745 · Human ServicesSHARING AND C…PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $105,788 · Human Services+21 more: $697,952 · Human Services+21 moreNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $510,123 · HealthNATIONAL MUL…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $346,949 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $177,328 · HealthBLOOD CANCER…ST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC: $150,020 · HealthST CHRISTOPH…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $84,375 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $71,920 · HealthLEUKEMIATEXAS INC: $64,750 · Health+16 more: $484,436 · Health+16 moreTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $210,180 · EducationTRUCKERS …UND Alumni Association and Foundation: $178,003 · EducationUND Alumn…UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,924 · EducationUNITED NE…WOMEN IN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · EducationWOMEN IN …AWESOME LEADERS NFP: $126,250 · EducationAWESOME L…STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $105,569 · EducationSTATE UNI…WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $70,000 · EducationFACE IT FOUNDATION: $64,159 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $60,000 · EducationWINONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $51,500 · Education+17 more: $347,940 · Education+17 moreSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $647,915 · Food & NutritionPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC: $192,880 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $89,813 · Food & NutritionMATTER: $75,500 · Food & NutritionWAREHOUSES4GOOD: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $53,749 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $51,929 · Food & NutritionINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $148,502 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $124,067 · InternationalGOOD360: $90,100 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $67,722 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $52,626 · InternationalCAPI USA: $25,000 · International+2 more: $26,942 · International
Philanthropy$5,142,381Other$5,400,412Human Services$2,065,066Health$1,889,901Education$1,499,525Food & Nutrition$1,186,786International$534,959

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND: $4,408,260 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $647,915 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $519,002 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $510,123 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $354,011 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $350,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $346,949 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC INCLUSION: $300,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRUCKERS AGAINST TRAFFICKING: $210,180 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $201,265 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE REACHING OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE INC: $192,880 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $182,579 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation: $178,003 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $177,328 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $150,924 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST CHRISTOPHER TRUCKERS DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC: $150,020 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS: $148,502 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC: $145,340 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $145,053 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN IN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $134,745 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $132,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAWESOME LEADERS NFP: $126,250 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $124,067 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES TOO: $106,028 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $105,788 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $105,569 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES OF MINNESOTA: $101,155 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetTRIO ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $91,500 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetGOOD360: $90,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $89,813 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBESTPREP: $84,453 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $84,375 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO: $84,026 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetE4E RELIEF LLC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN OIC: $78,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMATTER: $75,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAREHOUSES4GOOD: $75,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $73,150 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $71,920 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBridging Inc: $68,659 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKA JOOG NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION: $68,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetVEAP Inc: $67,767 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $67,722 over 6y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Pohlad Family Foundat…The Jamf Nation Globa…The K FoundationThe Graco FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Target FoundationPentair FoundationThe Walser FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…The Hubbard Broadcast…Patrick and Aimee But…
Pohlad Family FoundationMN85.7× affinity106 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
48report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 2000 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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