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Kahr Foundation-Ima

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Animals$13MEducation$10MArts & Culture$8.0MReligion$5.6MHealth$5.3MHuman Services$4.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.7MYouth Development$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $452k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+14 grants · $10M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNESOTA ZOO$1,624,120
HERITAGE MUSEUMS & GARDENS$1,275,000
MINNESOTA ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE$1,232,264
PULSE$1,005,404
SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL$994,323
HOPE ACADEMY$951,726
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$502,877
CROWN COLLEGE$500,000
FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION$494,169
MINNESOTA FAMILY COUNCIL & INSTITUTE$400,000
SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$366,996
FRASER$346,438
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES$300,000
YOUTH FRONTIERS$250,404
HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC$205,575
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 (FY19–24, $2.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5k → 8%THE DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $206k → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA INC: $31k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $255k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $250k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $50k → 11%GAME PLAN 4 HOPE: $5k → 9%TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $201k → 11%TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $175k → 11%TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $100k → 11%TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $95k → 11%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE: $25k → 11%CRADLE OF HOPE: $5k → 14%CRADLE OF HOPE: $5k → 14%CRADLE OF HOPE: $5k → 14%CRADLE OF HOPE: $5k → 14%CRADLE OF HOPE: $1k → 14%AVIVO: $5k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $35k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $30k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 11%RELATE COUNSELING CENTER: $5k → 11%FRASER: $346k → 11%FRASER: $105k → 11%FRASER: $75k → 11%FRASER: $25k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $20k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $15k → 11%YWCA MINNEAPOLIS: $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
MI
MA
IA
IN
NJ
CA
CO
NE
VA
NC
DC
HI
LA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$49M · 71 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

71 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
43

Total granted

$49M
$5.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+16%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $724k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • HA
    HOPE ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +213%
  • NH
    Norway House
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +7% · 42% of their budget
  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • MN
    MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD Camp Ripley Viking Clubgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M · revenue +75%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • RC
    ROCK COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $550k
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 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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2
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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3
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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4
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
5
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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6
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
7
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.

Health
8
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
9
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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10
Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

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11
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…

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12
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Justin Kukowski Foundation. 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

86 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. 86 of the 124 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/86
Grantees still filing
65/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNESOTA ZOO: $8,457,951 · OtherMINNESOTA ZOOTHE SALVATION ARMY MINNESOTA: $3,051,322 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY MINNESOTAMINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD Camp Ripley Viking Club: $2,000,000 · OtherMINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD Camp Ripley Viking ClubPULSE INC: $1,362,592 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,355,863 · OtherMINNESOTA ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,039,713 · OtherTHE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM: $1,000,000 · Other+72 more: $10,524,043 · Other+72 moreHOPE ACADEMY INC: $4,466,367 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INCSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $3,114,691 · EducationSOUTHWEST CHRISTIA…THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC: $1,105,785 · EducationTHE FAMILY LEADER …+5 more: $532,752 · Education+5 moreNorway House: $3,565,924 · Arts & CultureNorway HouseHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $1,988,198 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE MUSE…NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $470,068 · Arts & CultureNORMAN ROCKWE…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $140,544 · Arts & CultureMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $3,026,871 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $582,877 · HealthSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $325,000 · HealthCaringBridge: $276,102 · Health+4 more: $100,000 · HealthPULSE OUTREACH: $2,732,067 · Religion+2 more: $96,000 · ReligionYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $705,096 · Human ServicesTAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $571,328 · Human ServicesFRASER: $551,438 · Human ServicesHELPING PAWS INC: $236,575 · Human ServicesUNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $205,535 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROW: $165,000 · Human Services+9 more: $124,000 · Human ServicesHaiti Teen Challenge: $946,651 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $85,000 · International+1 more: $10,000 · International
Other$28,791,484Education$9,219,595Arts & Culture$6,414,734Health$4,310,850Religion$2,828,067Human Services$2,558,972International$1,041,651

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $4,466,367 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetNorway House: $3,565,924 over 5y, 42% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $3,114,691 over 4y, 11% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $3,026,871 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPULSE OUTREACH: $2,732,067 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $1,988,198 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetTHE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC: $1,105,785 over 3y, 11% of budgetHaiti Teen Challenge: $946,651 over 4y, 27% of budgetCROWN COLLEGE: $904,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $705,096 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $582,877 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA: $571,328 over 4y, 23% of budgetFRASER: $551,438 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $538,864 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetNORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC: $470,068 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCORE FOUNDATION INC: $436,553 over 5y, 23% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $416,996 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetROCK RANCH: $353,277 over 3y, 51% of budgetFAMILY POLICY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $325,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $325,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $312,878 over 5y, 16% of budgetCaringBridge: $276,102 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING PAWS INC: $236,575 over 2y, 11% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $211,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNITEDHEALTHCARE CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $205,535 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $185,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $165,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetACCESSABILITY INC: $162,591 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $150,863 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE REAGAN LEGACY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetMINNESOTA FAMILY COUNCIL: $145,000 over 2y, 78% of budgetCan Do Kids NFP (an IL Not For Profit Corp): $135,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetHOPE HARBOR: $130,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE FRONT LINE FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetLivingston Christian Schools: $102,752 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $85,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $82,358 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $71,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Rise: $60,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLiving Well Disability Services: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,544 over 3y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Norway House ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds PULSE OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA NATIONAL GUARD Camp Ripley Viking Club ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Haiti Teen Challenge ↗
  • Who funds CROWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds FRASER ↗
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds NORMAN ROCKWELL MUSEUM AT STOCKBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCK RANCH ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY POLICY ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CaringBridge ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HELPING PAWS INC ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗

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…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Walser FoundationXcel Energy FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…The Hubbard Broadcast…Medica FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN47.2× affinity28 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 · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Medica Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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How do I get to Kahr Foundation-Ima?

Find your warmest path to Kahr Foundation-Ima 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 124 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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