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Nibbe Family Charitable 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.

$265k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Education$290kArts & Culture$84kFood & Nutrition$29kHealth$23kRecreation & Sports$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kYouth Development$14kAnimals$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $150k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Minnesota State Univ Moorhead$55,000
Univ of Minnesota Foundation$25,000
Lac Qui Parle Valley High School$20,000
Guthrie Theater$15,000
Individual grant recipient$7,900
United Way DouglasPope Cty$6,500
Individual grant recipient$6,300
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Luverne Elementary School$5,000
Adrian Elementary School$5,000
Zumbrota Mazeppa High School$5,000
The Trevor Project$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Pine Island Sharing Shelves: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$367k · 22 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
11

Total granted

$367k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+64%

Still filing today

27%
9%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • GT
    GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $63k · revenue +101%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +37%
  • TREVOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • MH
    Madison Healthcare
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • HH
    Houston High School
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • SC
    St Charles High School
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

1
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
Animal Humane Society

Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…

Animals
3
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
4
Tri-County Humane Society

We believe in the human-animal bond and exist to support the animals and people of central minnesota by practicing and promoting quality animal care, offering compassionate customer service, and providing humane education.

Animals
5
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

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…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
8
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
11
The Open Door

The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…

Food & Nutrition
12
Lawrence Humane Society

The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pine Island Sharing Shelves. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Minnesota State Univ Moorhead — $102,700 · OtherMinnesota State Univ MoorheadLac Qui Parle Valley High School — $32,000 · OtherLac Qui Parle Valley High SchoolZumbrota Mazeppa High School — $18,020 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $13,900 · Other+51 more — $201,300 · Other+51 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $7,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…+1 more — $1,000 · EducationGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $62,500 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEAT…TREVOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsPAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 · AnimalsHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $3,000 · AnimalsMARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER — $3,000 · AnimalsHOPE COALITION — $3,000 · Housing & ShelterOutreach Foodshelf — $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$367,920Education$63,500Arts & Culture$62,500Civil Rights$10,000Animals$9,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Food & Nutrition$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $62,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COALITION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARSHMALLOW ANIMAL SHELTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOutreach Foodshelf — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINE ISLAND SHARING SHELVES — $2,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SIOUX FALLS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION
  • Who funds HOPE COALITION
  • Who funds PAWS AND CLAWS INC DBA PAWS AND CLAWS HUMANE SOCIETY
  • Who funds HOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER 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.

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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 Nibbe Family Charitable 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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