North Dakota · Public charity
Cullen Children's Foundation
CULLEN CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION provides financial resources to organizations that support children's healthcare needs with an emphasis on cancer.
- $252k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $243k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $24,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations Cullen Children's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $243k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $197k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $282k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $173k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $232k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $127k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $151k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $330k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamp Kace | $320,000 | 6 | 48% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley Inc | $250,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota | $225,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Outdoor Adventure Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Sanford Health Foundation | $150,870 | 2 | 0% |
| Lend A Hand Up Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Hope Inc | $122,460 | 8 | 10% |
| Essentia Health Foundation | $120,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ao1 Foundation Inc | $48,000 | 2 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kamp Kace | $320,000 | 6 | 48% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley Inc | $250,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota | $225,000 | 8 | 3% |
| The Outdoor Adventure Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Sanford Health Foundation | $150,870 | 2 | 0% |
| Lend A Hand Up Inc | $150,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Hope Inc | $122,460 | 8 | 10% |
| Essentia Health Foundation | $120,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Pinky Swear Foundation | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ao1 Foundation Inc | $48,000 | 2 | 3% |
| American Diabetes Association | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wishes & More | $26,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Hospice of the Red River Valley | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| House of Everyday Learning | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| National Ambucs Inc | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Cullen Children's Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Cullen Children's Foundation
- How much does Cullen Children's Foundation give?
- Cullen Children's Foundation reported 11 itemized grants totaling $242,750, out of $251,716 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cullen Children's Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (61%), Human Services (20%), Recreation & Sports (18%).
- Who are Cullen Children's Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kamp Kace ($320k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Red River Valley Inc ($250k), Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Dakota ($225k).
- Does Cullen Children's Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cullen Children's Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, Dakota Medical Foundation, The Barry Foundation.
- Where is Cullen Children's Foundation based?
- Cullen Children's Foundation is based in ND.
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