How much does Farrell Family Foundation give?

Farrell Family Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $43,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Farrell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Health (18%), Education (13%).

Who are Farrell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eden Prairie Local News ($17k), Spider Chain of Lakes Association ($16k), Children's Cancer Research Fund ($15k).

Does Farrell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Farrell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Farrell Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.

Where is Farrell Family Foundation based?

Farrell Family Foundation is based in MN.

Farrell Family Foundation

Farrell Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Farrell Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$43k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$67kHealth$57kEducation$41kHuman Services$24kCrime & Legal$20kArts & Culture$19kReligion$13kFood & Nutrition$13kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$923k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EDEN PRAIRIE LOCAL NEWS	$5,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND	$3,000
NATURES NURSERY	$3,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$3,000
CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION	$3,000
RIVERKEEPER INC	$2,000
CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$2,000
SPIDER CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION	$2,000
THE RETREAT	$1,500
EDEN PRAIRIE CRIME PREVENTION	$1,000
CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM	$1,000
SUPPORT OUR SCHOLARS	$1,000
PET ALLIANCE OF GREATER ORLANDO	$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHESTER LIBRARY	$1,000
CHESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$272k · 44 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$272k

$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+36%

Still filing today

52%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

EP
EDEN PRAIRIE LOCAL NEWS
4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +252%
SC
SPIDER CHAIN OF LAKES ASSOCIATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +28%
SAVE THE BAY INC
3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +16%

Funded once

AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +68%
EF
EPILEPSY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $5k

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment

Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment

Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Earth & Space Research

Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.

Science & Tech

New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 98 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/43

Grantees still filing

32/43

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$196,109Environment$66,000Arts & Culture$21,475Philanthropy$20,100Human Services$19,000Health$17,500Education$17,500

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.

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 & Minnesota FoundationMN13.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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