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Cullen Children's Foundation
CULLEN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION provides financial resources to organizations that support children's healthcare needs with an emphasis on cancer.
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.
The 11 grants below total $242,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $251,716 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,966 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KAMP KACE | $50,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| LEND A HAND UP | $30,000 |
| OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD | $25,000 |
| A01 FOUNDATION | $24,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION ATTN UPPER MIDWEST | $15,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY | $10,000 |
| HOPE INC | $8,750 |
| AMBUCS | $8,000 |
| HOUSE OF EVERYDAY LEARNING | $7,000 |
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, $344k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% 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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +70%
- TOTHE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +73%
- SHSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2022 · $151k · revenue +385%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL AMBUCS INCone grant, 2024 · $8k
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
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.
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
The optometric foundation of nd is focused on "improving lives by improving sight". organized for accepting and administering charitable donations to improve the visual health and welfare of north dakota's citizens, inlcuding funding…
Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities in omaha (rmhc in omaha) is to create, operate, and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children. we strive to improve the lives of children and their families…
Healthcare is a vital component of a community's quality of life. prairie lakes healthcare foundation exists to raise funds with which to support and advance the health services available to the watertown area through prairie lakes…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Dakota and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 KAMP KACE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds THE OUTDOOR ADVENTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Lend A Hand Up Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dakota Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AO1 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Red River Valley ↗
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: Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Alex Stern Family Foundation · Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Sanford Group Return · Midcontinent Foundation · North Dakota Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Brandt Family Foundation · Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust · Innovis Health LLC
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 Cullen Children's 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.
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