How much did MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 40% of MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

independent districtvulnerable burkinaburkina fasorelief recoverywatersrockjourneys

2019

environmental sustainabilitynatural disastersdevelopimpactshopkinspersonsempathy animals

2020

covid emergencyemergency requestmedicalscholarshipscollectivecovid responseradio

2021

sitesbuffalocovidmanaging risksrisks economicseascapeconnection

2022

artseco renewalinternational rescuerescue committeejccfstechnicalchurch longfour

2023

artseco programmingtribal conservationfinance toolboxnature-based solutionsclimate resiliencediversity equityaccess reproductive

2024

traditional artsenvironmental resiliencecare hubsstudent retentionblue economyinterculturalcareers

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 307 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k57 grants · $114k
$10k–50k38 grants · $650k
$50k–250k46 grants · $6.8M
$250k+166 grants · $137M

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3B

Total assets

Largest grants

THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION$3,662,000
SAINT PAUL AND MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$3,550,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES$3,405,000
FIRST PEOPLES FUND$2,575,000
MID ATLANTIC ARTS$2,400,000
OXFAM-AMERICA INC$2,382,000
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$2,065,000
NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$2,000,000
MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH INC$2,000,000
LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED$2,000,000
MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC$2,000,000
WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY$1,991,500
CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION$1,927,000
LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$1,800,000
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC - CARE$1,750,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $35.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 16% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0B · 547 repeat orgs$52M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

547 repeat relationships — 181 still active in FY2024, 366 since wound down; 75 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

547

447

Total granted

$1.0B

$33M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+39%

Still filing today

71%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

The Minneapolis Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $42M · revenue +31%
World Wildlife Fund Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $42M · revenue +46%
SP
SAINT PAUL AND MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $41M · revenue +34%

Funded once

UU
UPSTREAM USA INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $2.5M · revenue +313%
IT
INTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INTERNATIONAL ACTION
one grant, 2018 · $2.0M
HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES
one grant, 2023 · $1.8M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Minnesota Business Partnership

To maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans.

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Minnesota Medical Association

Be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state & the best place to practice

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Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.

Education

Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and

Advance public policy & job growth strategies to create an environment for businesses to prosper

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United Way of Ne Minnesota

Invest in nonprofits, programs, collaborations that equip, empower and create opportunities for all to thrive.

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Aia Minnesota

Advancing a vital profession, vibrant communities, and architecture that endures.

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African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

Minnesota Center for Environmental

See schedule o. the minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.

Environment

Minnesota Children's Museum

Sparking children's learning through play

Arts & Culture

Great Mn Schools

Makes strategic investments in proven and promising schools, providing the expert guidance, funding resources to create a community of great schools.

Education

Minnesota State University Student

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 system, local, state, and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amherst H Wilder Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Museum of Russian Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.9%7/827

the rest of the field

11%

206,157/1,818,738

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

747 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

241

Early backer (in before they grew)

723/747

Grantees still filing

578/747

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$535,758,089International$149,288,409Philanthropy$116,293,970Environment$78,536,976Animals$76,368,642Education$64,181,236Arts & Culture$59,829,563

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN98.2× affinity224 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The K Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Target Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Mortenson Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THUNDERHEART MEDIA INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~18 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814842057 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THUNDERHEART MEDIA INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 18 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 80% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Margaret a Cargill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Margaret a Cargill Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

747 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Margaret a Cargill Foundation?

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MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

747 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Margaret a Cargill Foundation?

More from the funding graph