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Randy Shaver Cancer Research and Community Fund

The mission of the organization is to support the cancer community in minnesota by funding research, prevention, treatment and community outreach programs relating to cancer.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of RANDY SHAVER CANCER RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$14,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$353k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$1,044,518
MAYO CLINIC$80,000
MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION$57,750
INDY FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMP BREAKAWAY$22,100
JA WEDUM HOSPICE$14,600
QUIET OAKS HOUSE & RESPITE CARE$13,000
ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM$10,000
CAMP KESEM - UNIVERSITY OF MN$10,000
BREAST CANCER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$7,400
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 (FY17–25, $189k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Camp Kesem: $10k → 9%CAMP KESEM: $12k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $9k → 14%QUIET OAKS HOUSE & RESPITE CARE: $13k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $15k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $25k → 11%Open Arms: $30k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $15k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA INC: $20k → 11%CAMP KESEM - UNIVERSITY OF MN: $10k → 11%CAMP KESEM - UNIVERSITY OF MN: $10k → 11%CAMP KESEM - UNIVERSITY OF MN: $10k → 11%CAMP KESEM - UNIVERSITY OF MN: $10k → 11%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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 19 repeat orgs$971k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
7

Total granted

$7.0M
$958k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+35%

Still filing today

79%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IF
    INDY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +142%
  • CB
    CAMP BREAKAWAY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $63k · revenue +143% · 86% of their budget
  • CH
    CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $57k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $831k · revenue +137%
  • CQ
    CAMP QUALITY USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $33k · revenue +35%
  • SG
    SANFORD GROUP RETURNgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +56%

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
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
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
5
St Vincent Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franci s

To continue christ's healing love through delivery of competent & compassionate healthcare in an environment sensitive to the needs of all people. the hospital is committed to providing a broad range of quality inpatient and outpatient…

Health
6
The Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center (TNMC)'s mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research, and extraordinary patient care.

Health
7
Park Nicollet Group Return

To improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community.

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8
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

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

Health
9
City of Hope National Medical Center

City of Hope National Medical Center's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
10
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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11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Ja Wedum Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr14%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr18%15%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr14%61%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/28
the rest of the field
13%
3,109/23,764

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $5,844,807 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION+7 more — $453,438 · Other+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $830,520 · EducationUNIVERSITY …MAYO CLINIC — $270,000 · HealthMAYO CLINI…Fairview Foundation — $88,300 · HealthFairview F…CAMP BREAKAWAY — $63,350 · HealthCAMP BREAK…CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM — $57,379 · HealthCENTRACARE…HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE — $55,717 · HealthHEALTHPART…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $53,257 · HealthCHILDREN'S…BREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $46,425 · HealthBREAST CAN…ANGEL FOUNDATION — $29,500 · HealthALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $26,855 · HealthAvera Marshall — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $33,808 · HealthCamp Kesem National — $70,802 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVE — $55,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $50,000 · Human ServicesQUIET OAKS — $13,000 · Human ServicesINDY FOUNDATION — $119,971 · PhilanthropyTRUE FRIENDS — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsKICK CANCER TO THE CURB MILLE LACS COUNT — $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$6,298,245Education$830,520Health$749,591Human Services$188,802Philanthropy$119,971Recreation & Sports$15,000Public Benefit$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $830,520 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $270,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJA WEDUM FOUNDATION — $121,188 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINDY FOUNDATION — $119,971 over 7y, 13% of budgetFairview Foundation — $88,300 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCamp Kesem National — $70,802 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP BREAKAWAY — $63,350 over 3y, 86% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM — $57,379 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE — $55,717 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRESCENT COVE — $55,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $53,257 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $46,425 over 6y, 13% of budgetINNOVATIVE BLOOD RESOURCES — $38,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS INC — $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $29,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $26,855 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSANFORD GROUP RETURN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvera Marshall — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTHCARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $24,083 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUIET OAKS — $13,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIREFLY SISTERHOOD — $9,725 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetKICK CANCER TO THE CURB MILLE LACS COUNT — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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.

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Graco FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL16.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Randy Shaver Cancer Research and Community Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 28 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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