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Frances Curran Foundation Agency Co Cetera at a glance

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Frances Curran Foundation Agency Co Cetera

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$343kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Animal Humane Society - Golden Valley$15,000
Four Winds Connections$10,000
Ruff Start Rescue$10,000
The Bond Between$10,000
Animal Folks$10,000
Northwoods Humane Society$5,000
Mission Animal Hospital$5,000
Community Emergency Service$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS: $5k → 11%Community Emergency Service: $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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 10 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$284k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • RS
    RUFF START RESCUE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +73%
  • PH
    PET HAVEN INC OF MINNESOTA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +56%
  • CD
    CAN DO CANINES
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • MS
    MN SPRAY NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • BC
    BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -25%
  • HA
    HEADWATERS ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -9%
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
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
2
Pets Return Home

The organization seeks to reduce the unecessary killing and suffering of healthy adoptable dogs at animal rescue and shelter organizations

Animals
3
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
4
Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals
5
Rescue Coop
Animals
6
All Dog Rescue

All Dog Rescue is dedicated to finding life-long homes for rescued dogs. We accept dogs from shelters and relinquishing owners, thoroughly evaluate them in volunteer foster homes, and then help families select the right dog for their home.…

Animals
7
St Clouds Rescue
Animals
8
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
9
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
10
Muttsnstuff

Rescue animals

Animals
11
Paws Animal Rescue Center

To help rescue unwanted pets

Animals
12
Jet Wag Animal Rescue Inc

Our mission is to move adoptable dogs and cats primarily from heavily-burdened areas to loving homes. We work with trusted partners throughout the country and around the world and facilitate vet care, transport, and adoptions to help…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pet Haven Inc of Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Four Winds Connections. 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

18 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. 18 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
8/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animal Humane Society: $63,000 · AnimalsAnimal Humane SocietyRUFF START RESCUE INC: $60,000 · AnimalsRUFF START RESCUE INCPET HAVEN INC OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 · AnimalsPET HAVEN INC OF MINNESOTASAVE-A-BULL RESCUE: $25,000 · AnimalsSAVE-A-BULL RESCUEFOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS: $21,500 · AnimalsFOUR WINDS CONNECTIONSRED LAKE ROSIE'S RESCUE INC: $20,000 · AnimalsRED LAKE ROSIE'S RESCUE INCANIMAL FOLKS: $19,000 · AnimalsANIMAL FOLKSTHE BOND BETWEEN: $10,000 · AnimalsNORTHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 · Animals+6 more: $27,000 · Animals+6 moreCAN DO CANINES: $25,000 · OtherCAN DO CANINESAnimal Humane Society - Golden Valley: $15,000 · OtherAnimal Humane Societ…SECONDHAND HOUNDS: $15,000 · OtherSECONDHAND HOUNDSMN SPRAY NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $7,000 · OtherMN SPRAY NEUTER ASSI…+1 more: $1,011 · OtherBELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC: $5,128 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Animals$280,500Other$63,011Human Services$10,128

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnimal Humane Society: $63,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRUFF START RESCUE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPET HAVEN INC OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSAVE-A-BULL RESCUE: $25,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFOUR WINDS CONNECTIONS: $21,500 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetRED LAKE ROSIE'S RESCUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetANIMAL FOLKS: $19,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC: $5,128 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPrairie's Edge Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFUR EVER HOMES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Rescue Pack: $4,500 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…The Graco FoundationThe American Society …Xcel Energy FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…The Jamf Nation Globa…The Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncSaint Paul & Minnesot…Pohlad Family Foundat…Dotopia
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL26.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Graco Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Xcel Energy Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Dotopia

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 Frances Curran Foundation Agency Co Cetera funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frances Curran Foundation Agency Co Cetera. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Frances Curran Foundation Agency Co Cetera through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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