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Northrup Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$21kHealth$15kInternational$11kArts & Culture$8kYouth Development$2kEducation$250Other$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EAST WEST MINISTRIES$4,000
CRU$2,000
WOODDALE CHURCH$2,000
MAGDI YACOUB GLOBAL HEART FOUNDATIO$2,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$2,000
PRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES$1,000
THE NAVIGATORS$1,000
THINGS THAT REMAIN$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRACE CHURCH: $2k → 11%THE NAVIGATORS: $1k → 12%MAGDI YACOUB GLOBAL HEART FOUNDATIO: $2k → 9%BIOLA UNIVERSITY: $250 → 14%PRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $4k → 5%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%MISSON TO THE WORLD: $1k → 9%REACH OUT YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $1k → 14%CHILDRENS HEALTH DEFENSE: $2k → 7%GRACE CHURCH: $1k → 11%THE NAVIGATORS: $1k → 12%MAGDI YACOUB GLOBAL HEART FOUNDATIO: $2k → 9%PRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%REACH OUT YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $1k → 14%THINGS THAT REMAIN: $1k → 11%MAGDI YACOUB GLOBAL HEART FOUNDATIO: $1k → 9%PRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%THINGS THAT REMAIN: $1k → 11%MAGDI YACOUB GLOBAL HEART FOUNDATIO: $1k → 9%PRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%EAST WEST MINISTRIES: $1k → 5%SAMARITANS PURSE: $2k → 21%THINGS THAT REMAIN: $1k → 11%PRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%SAMARITANS PURSE: $1k → 21%WOODDALE CHURCH: $2k → 11%PRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES: $1k → 15%SAMARITANS PURSE: $1k → 21%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
NJ
CA
CO
NC
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 10 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
4

Total granted

$58k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+15%

Still filing today

30%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHealthEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • C
    CRU
    6× · 2018–2023 · $11k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    6× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +163%
  • TN
    THE NAVIGATORS
    6× · 2018–2023 · $8k

Funded once

  • AH
    ASWAN HEART CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -35%
  • MT
    MISSON TO THE WORLD
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRU: $11,000 · OtherCRUTHE NAVIGATORS: $8,000 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORSPRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES INC: $6,200 · OtherPRESS PAUSE MINISTRIES INCMAGDI YACOUB GLOBAL HEART FOUNDATIO: $6,000 · OtherMAGDI YACOUB GLOBAL HEART FOUNDATIOASWAN HEART CENTER: $5,000 · OtherASWAN HEART CENTERGRACE CHURCH: $3,000 · OtherGRACE CHURCHWOODDALE CHURCH: $2,000 · OtherREACH OUT YOUTH SOLUTIONS: $2,000 · Other+1 more: $1,000 · OtherSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEEast-West Ministries International: $7,000 · ReligionEast-West Ministries Internationa…THINGS THAT REMAIN: $3,000 · ReligionTHINGS THAT REMAINCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $2,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 · HealthBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $250 · Education
Other$44,200Religion$20,000Environment$2,000Health$2,000Education$250

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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHINGS THAT REMAIN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $250 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.

  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds East-West Ministries International ↗
  • Who funds THINGS THAT REMAIN ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northrup Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northrup Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 15 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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