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Rachel Foundation

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.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$52kEducation$39kHuman Services$25kRecreation & Sports$16kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$8,000
BAME FOUNDATION$5,500
AP CONST CHARITABLE EVENTS FOUNDATION$5,500
FORE PARKINSON'S$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STOUT$3,000
CROSS SERVICES$2,500
MONTICELLO HELP CENTER$2,000
NORTHWOOD TECHNICAL COLLEGE$2,000
MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION$1,500
ALLIANCE FOR WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION$1,500
CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE$1,500
THUMBS UP HIGH 5K$1,500
KRAUS ANDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,350
ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING$1,250
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MONTICELLO HELP CENTER: $2k → 5%WISHES & MORE: $1k → 7%SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS: $500 → 6%SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS: $500 → 6%CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE: $2k → 5%SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS: $500 → 6%CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE: $2k → 5%CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE: $2k → 5%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

ND
MN
IL
WI
MA
MD
TN
LA
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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$101k · 20 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
23

Total granted

$101k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+13%

Still filing today

60%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $32k · revenue +43%
  • BF
    BAME FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +119%
  • C(
    CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES)
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • NL
    Northern Lights Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +125%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ROCHESTER
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • SC
    ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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 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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2
Angel Foundation

We offer relief to cancer patients and their loved ones through financial assistance, education, and emotional support.

Health
3
Ronald Mcdonald House Southeastern Mn & Western Wi

Ronald mcdonald house southeastern mn and western wi mission is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

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4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
The Minnesota Camp Fire Foundation

Ensure camp fire minnesota's strong future. with nature as the catalyst, camp fire minnesota energizes youth to discover their spark so their futures glow brighter.

Youth Development
6
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
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
Northland Foundation

The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

Philanthropy
9
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
10
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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11
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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12
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rivers of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Kraus Anderson Community Foundation. 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

30 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. 30 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AP CONST CHARITABLE EVENTS FOUNDATION: $14,000 · OtherAP CONST CHARITABLE EVENTS FOUNDATIONFORE PARKINSONS: $6,000 · OtherFORE PARKINSONSUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ROCHESTER: $4,000 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN: $3,000 · OtherST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA: $3,000 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH: $3,000 · OtherMINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO: $3,000 · Other+31 more: $36,100 · Other+31 moreCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $32,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONFIREFLY SISTERHOOD: $3,000 · HealthFIREFLY SISTERHOODMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $3,000 · HealthMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND S…ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION+2 more: $2,000 · HealthNorthern Lights Foundation: $5,000 · Human ServicesNorthern …CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE: $4,500 · Human ServicesCHAD SMIT…MONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesMONTICELL…SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS: $1,500 · Human ServicesSHOOT FOR…WISHES & MORE: $1,000 · Human ServicesWISHES & …BAME FOUNDATION: $7,000 · PhilanthropyKRAUS ANDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,850 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVING: $500 · PhilanthropyCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $6,750 · ReligionRIVERS OF HOPE: $1,000 · ReligionDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $2,000 · EducationLEGACY 2 INSPIRE: $1,000 · EducationANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC: $3,000 · Youth Development
Other$82,100Health$42,500Human Services$14,000Philanthropy$10,350Religion$7,750Education$7,000Youth Development$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAME FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES): $6,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Lights Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE: $4,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFIREFLY SISTERHOOD: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKRAUS ANDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,850 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWRIGHT COUNTY FRONTLINE OUTREACH I: $1,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHUMBS UP HIGH 5K: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHOOT FOR THE TROOPS: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCORNERHOUSE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWISHES & MORE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERS OF HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $500 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 CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BAME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CROSS (CHRISTIANS REACHING OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES) ↗
  • Who funds Northern Lights Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHAD SMITH RIDE FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds ANNANDALE YOUTH FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds FIREFLY SISTERHOOD ↗
  • Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds KRAUS ANDERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTICELLO CHRISTIAN SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR WILDLIFE & CONSERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WRIGHT COUNTY FRONTLINE OUTREACH I ↗
  • Who funds THUMBS UP HIGH 5K ↗
  • Who funds SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS ↗
  • Who funds ONE ROOF COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds CORNERHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WISHES & MORE ↗

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustThe Graco FoundationEdina Realty Foundati…Wright-Hennepin Elect…Api Group FoundationLloyd K Johnson Found…Bame FoundationConnexus Energy Found…Minnesota Power Found…Duluth-Superior Area …Mightycause Charitabl…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN22× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Graco Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Wright-Hennepin Electric Trust · Api Group Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Bame Foundation · Connexus Energy Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 Rachel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rachel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Rachel Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rachel 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 61 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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