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Farnham Charitable Fund at a glance

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Farnham Charitable Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$537k
Granted FY2022
38
Grants FY2022
10
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$386kArts & Culture$84kReligion$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$34kHuman Services$32kInternational$25kFood & Nutrition$21kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2022 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k21 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $325k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$115,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$40,000
DELBARTON SCHOOL$30,000
RAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$30,000
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$30,000
ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL$25,000
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSTIY OF ST THOMAS$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$21,590
GUILD INCORPORATED$15,000
AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE - USA$15,000
ALIGHT$15,000
ST OLAF COLLEGE$12,500
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$11,000
MONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE F$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL: $5k → 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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$460k · 34 repeat orgs$209k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2022, 17 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
9

Total granted

$460k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-3%

Still filing today

53%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $161k · revenue +105%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    2× · 2021–2022 · $41k · revenue +16%
  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
    6× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • MF
    MONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -39%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE MONTECITO LIBRARY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • NP
    NORWOOD PARK AND RECREATION DISTRIC
    one grant, 2018 · $800
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 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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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
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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4
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
5
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
6
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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7
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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8
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
9
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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10
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
11
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $160,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONMarquette University: $41,000 · EducationMarquette UniversityST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $29,500 · EducationST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOLUniversity of St Thomas: $25,000 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasST OLAF COLLEGE: $12,500 · EducationBolder Options: $12,500 · Education+3 more: $14,250 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $34,700 · OtherST JOHN'S UNIVERSITYDELBARTON SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherDELBARTON SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $21,590 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAGuild: $19,750 · OtherGuildAMERICAN FIELD SERVICE - USA: $15,000 · OtherAMERICAN FIELD SERVICE - USAMONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE F: $10,000 · OtherMONTECITO COVENANT CHURCH SANTA BARBARA CA: $9,300 · OtherST FRANCIS OF ASSISSI CHURCH: $8,900 · Other+31 more: $79,300 · Other+31 moreRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $38,650 · Arts & CultureRAMSEY COUNT…Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: $30,000 · Arts & CultureColonial Wil…TELLURIDE SOCIETY FOR JAZZ: $3,300 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,050 · Arts & CultureALIGHT: $15,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 · InternationalGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $13,000 · PhilanthropyRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY-EAST: $1,500 · PhilanthropyBEYOND HUNGER: $10,000 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEAL: $5,000 · Food & NutritionCare and Share Inc: $1,450 · Food & NutritionGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $6,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $5,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human Services
Education$295,250Other$228,540Arts & Culture$73,000International$20,000Philanthropy$19,500Food & Nutrition$16,450Human Services$16,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $160,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University: $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $38,650 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL: $29,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuild: $19,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALIGHT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBolder Options: $12,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBEYOND HUNGER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTUBMAN: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChicago Gay Mens Chorus: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE SOCIETY FOR JAZZ: $3,300 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMONTECITO FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE NORTHERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY-EAST: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCare and Share Inc: $1,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY OF THE ST CROIX & NAMEKAGON: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington County Historical Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAKOTA WICOHAN: $200 over 2y, 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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationMightycause Charitabl…The Hubbard Broadcast…Hardenbergh FoundationOtto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Charities Aid Foundat…The K FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…Catholic Community Fo…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The K Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota

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 Farnham Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farnham Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 64 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home