· Private foundation
Margaret a Cargill Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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–250k47 grants · $6.9M
- $250k+170 grants · $139M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MALIASILI INITIATIVES INC | $2,000,000 |
| MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH INC | $2,000,000 |
| LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED | $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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $36.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 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 14% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
528 repeat relationships — 177 still active in FY2024, 351 since wound down; 70 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $43M · revenue +62%- CFCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $32M · revenue +250%
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +198%
Funded once
- UUUpstream USA Incone grant, 2018 · $2.5M · revenue -5%
- ITINTERACTION THE AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR VOLUNTARY INT'L ACTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2.0M · revenue +55% · 32% of their budget
- CSCULTURAL SURVIVAL INCone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
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…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
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,…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is Empire Health Foundation. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
821 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 821 of the 1,062 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SERVICES IN AMERICA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT SCIENCES FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADINGAGE MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds The End Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVING THE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE FUNDERS NETWORK INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The K Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Target Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation · Minnesota Community 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 organization 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.
- Management Sciences for Health Inc — 67% of income from government
- Mid Atlantic Arts Inc — 66% of income from government
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Achieving the Dream Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Anthropocene Alliance — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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