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Raft Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Raft Charitable 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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$260k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$4.8MHealth$2.3MArts & Culture$2.2MHuman Services$1.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$910kInternational$630kPhilanthropy$450kReligion$427kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $540k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $830k
  • $250k+1 grant · $260k
$30,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA$260,000
MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE INC$230,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$100,000
MANY RIVERS MONTESSORI$100,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DULUTH$50,000
UNITED FUND OF CUMBERLAND INC$50,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$50,000
SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA$50,000
Cumberland Tsap Library Foundation$40,000
University of Minnesota Foundation$40,000
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC$30,000
FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY$30,000
FRIENDS OF THE RAMSEY COUNTY LIBRARIES$30,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Dwelling Place: $20k → 7%Dwelling Place: $10k → 7%Dwelling Place: $10k → 7%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER & RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $140k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER & RESOURCE CENTER: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%SAFE HAVEN SHELTER & RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 15%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $90k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $90k → 14%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $60k → 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $90k → 14%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $20k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $20k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $20k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $20k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $20k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $15k → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $30k → 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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Raft Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Raft Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 38 repeat orgs$500 to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
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Total granted

$13M
$500

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-12%

Still filing today

76%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MT
    Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +94%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    9× · 2017–2025 · $910k · revenue +46%
  • MR
    MANY RIVERS MONTESSORI
    8× · 2018–2025 · $821k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • AC
    Apollo Club of Minneapolis Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -12%
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 Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
Minnesota Children's Museum

Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children…

Arts & Culture
7
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
8
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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9
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
10
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library; the most unlike its peers is Apollo Club of Minneapolis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 39 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $2,340,000 · OtherHAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTASALVATION ARMY: $880,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYUNITED FUND OF CUMBERLAND INC: $450,000 · OtherUNITED FUND OF CUMBERLAND INCFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DULUTH: $297,000 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DULUTHFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $270,000 · OtherTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $270,000 · Other+8 more: $805,000 · Other+8 moreSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $450,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF M…MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $450,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICA…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $410,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RA…RAMSEY COUNTY LIBRARY FRIENDS: $270,000 · Arts & CultureRAMSEY COUNTY LIBRA…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $270,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC …THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $180,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN SWEDIS…PARABLE FUND: $180,000 · Arts & CulturePARABLE FUND+2 more: $40,500 · Arts & CultureMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $2,070,000 · HealthMinnesota Teen Cha…ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $90,000 · HealthMANY RIVERS MONTESSORI: $820,500 · EducationMANY RIVERS M…DULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationDULUTH LIBRAR…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $190,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…CUMBERLAND TSAP LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 · EducationCUMBERLAND TS…TEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $180,000 · EducationTEXTILE CENTE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $910,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $205,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS…SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $60,000 · Human Services+1 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU: $270,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $180,000 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $120,000 · InternationalHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 · InternationalKINSHIP OF CUMBERLAND INC: $180,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,312,000Arts & Culture$2,250,500Health$2,160,000Education$1,570,500Human Services$1,215,000International$630,000Youth Development$180,000

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 budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $2,070,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $910,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMANY RIVERS MONTESSORI: $820,500 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $450,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED FUND OF CUMBERLAND INC: $450,000 over 9y, 67% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $450,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $410,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY: $270,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY LIBRARY FRIENDS: $270,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $270,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $270,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU: $270,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $205,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND TSAP LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $180,000 over 9y, 57% of budgetKINSHIP OF CUMBERLAND INC: $180,000 over 9y, 40% of budgetTEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $180,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE: $180,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPARABLE FUND: $180,000 over 9y, 33% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $180,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $175,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY: $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN: $60,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR YOUTH CHORUS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetThe Dwelling Place: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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 Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MANY RIVERS MONTESSORI ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED FUND OF CUMBERLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds RAMSEY COUNTY LIBRARY FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE SAINT PAUL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH ↗
  • Who funds DULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CUMBERLAND TSAP LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KINSHIP OF CUMBERLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds TEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SWEDISH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PARABLE FUND ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR YOUTH CHORUS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
  • Who funds Apollo Club of Minneapolis Inc ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Thomas and Julianne Y…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThrivent Charitable I…Lahti Family Foundati…Ordean FoundationLloyd K Johnson Found…Minnesota Power Found…Edina Realty Foundati…Duluth-Superior Area …
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL22.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Thomas and Julianne Youngren Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Lahti Family Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community 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 Raft Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Raft Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 39 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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