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Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation

MINNESOTA COLON AND RECTAL FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO IMPROVING COLORECTAL HEALTH THROUGH EDUCATION, OUTREACH, RESEARCH AND SPECIALIZED PHYSICIAN TRAINING 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.

$142k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$323kEducation$287kScience & Tech$234k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANGEL FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$22,000
HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$20,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION ASCRS$12,500
Individual grant recipient$12,325
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$10,000
RANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH COMMUNITY FUND$10,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION MINNESOTADAKOTAS CHAPTER$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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ANGEL FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $175k → 11%MINNESOTA COLON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%IHEALTH INC: $120k → 17%RESEARCH FOUNDATION ASCRS: $30k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MN: $100k → 11%CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%RESEARCH FOUNDATION ASCRS: $13k → 8%U OF MN: $50k → 11%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION MINNESOTADAKOTAS CHAPTER: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%U OF MN: $24k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $22k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MN: $6k → 11%RANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH COMMUNITY FUND: $26k → 11%RANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH COMMUNITY FUND: $10k → 11%COLON CANCER COALITION: $1k → 11%TWIN CITIES ORTHOPEDICS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%TWIN CITIES ORTHOPEDICS FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%HENNEPIN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%PARK NICOLETTE FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$430k · 5 repeat orgs$413k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$430k
$346k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+5%

Still filing today

80%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthEducationOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +105%
  • HH
    HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +30%
  • RS
    RANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY FUND
    2× · 2023–2025 · $36k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • II
    iHealth Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $120k · revenue +5% · 66% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MN
    one grant, 2023 · $106k
  • UO
    U OF MN
    one grant, 2022 · $74k
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 Hospital Foundation

The minnesota hospital foundation works on strategies that include data-led quality and safety improvement, education, research, training and leadership to improve the health of minnesotans.

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2
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
3
Twin Cities Heart Foundation

Investigate ways to make remote communications and monitoring of patients cost effective and practical. this includes evaluation of both traditional and novel uses of various audio, video and data acquisition systems for communication and…

Health
4
Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation
Health
5
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
6
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

Provide professional services for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and infectious disease and related conditions.

Health
7
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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8
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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9
Minneapolis Regional Chamber Development Foundation

The mission of the minneapolis regional chamber development foundation is to offer innovative ways of reducing unemployment, improve educational opportunities for disadvantaged youth, initiate and conduct leadership development programs…

Community Improvement
10
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
11
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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12
Riverwood Healthcare Center & Community Hospital Foundation

Riverwood foundation exists to raise money for riverwood healthcare center to enhance the quality of care for the community we serve.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Colorectal Cancer Research Foundation; the most unlike its peers is IHealth Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

iHealth Inc: $120,000 · HealthiHealth IncTWIN CITIES ORTHOPEDICS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthTWIN CITIES ORTHOPEDICS FOUNDATIONANGEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDATIONHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATIONRANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY FUND: $35,500 · HealthRANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNI…+2 more: $2,500 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MN: $105,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MNU OF MN: $74,000 · OtherU OF MNRESEARCH FOUNDATION ASCRS: $42,500 · OtherRESEARCH FOUNDATION ASCRSPARK NICOLETTE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherPARK NICOLETTE FOUNDATIONCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,325 · Other+3 more: $9,100 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $257,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
Health$303,000Other$283,425Education$257,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $257,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetiHealth Inc: $120,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetTWIN CITIES ORTHOPEDICS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY FUND: $35,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLON CANCER COALITION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    How do I get to Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation 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 17 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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