· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
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.
Children's cancer research fund fuels transformational research to bring better treatments and cures to children with cancer.
D-Feet Cancer The Dalton Fox Foundation raises awareness of Ewing Sarcoma and other under-studied pediatric cancers. By directly funding research into these cancers, we are determined to help discover more effective and less toxic…
Advancing healthy communities through a unified voice across the health care continuum.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
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…
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…
Provide support to the charitable work of the bismarck cancer center a 501(c)(3) public charity in providing the highest quality cancer treatment in the bismarck service area. our mission is to contribute to the care of the "whole…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cullen Children's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cullen Children's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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