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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2026still arriving
8
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$1.3M
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.

Health$7.8MFood & Nutrition$174kPublic Safety & Disaster$83kPhilanthropy$70kHuman Services$45kRecreation & Sports$33k
02FY2026 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $64k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$254k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$1,272,356
MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION$63,750
QUIET OAKS HOUSE & RESPITE CARE$15,000
CAMP BREAKAWAY$15,000
VRANICARE$11,375
CAMP KESEM - UNIVERSITY OF MN$10,000
CRESCENT COVE$8,806
BREAST CANCER EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,200
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 (FY17–26, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VRANICARE: $11k → 5%Camp Kesem: $10k → 9%CAMP KESEM: $12k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $9k → 14%QUIET OAKS HOUSE & RESPITE CARE: $15k → 11%QUIET OAKS HOUSE & RESPITE CARE: $13k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $15k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $9k → 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%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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.4M · 20 repeat orgs$969k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$8.4M
$958k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+35%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IF
    INDY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +142%
  • CK
    Camp Kesem National
    8× · 2017–2026 · $81k · revenue +9%
  • CB
    CAMP BREAKAWAY
    4× · 2023–2026 · $78k · revenue +143% · 86% of their budget

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%
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
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
Northern Michigan Hematology and Oncology

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

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
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
9
Park Nicollet Group Return

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

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10
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

—
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
Centracare Health System - Melrose

We're here for your whole life to listen, then serve, to guide and heal because health means everything.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 29 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $7,117,163 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION+7 more: $517,188 · Other+7 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $830,520 · EducationUNIVERSIT…MAYO CLINIC: $270,000 · HealthMAYO CLIN…Fairview Foundation: $88,300 · HealthFairview …CAMP BREAKAWAY: $78,350 · HealthCAMP BREA…CENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM: $57,379 · HealthCENTRACAR…HEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE: $55,717 · HealthHEALTHPAR…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $53,257 · HealthCHILDREN'…BREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $51,625 · HealthBREAST CA…ANGEL FOUNDATION: $29,500 · HealthALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $26,855 · Health+3 more: $58,808 · Health+3 moreCamp Kesem National: $80,802 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVE: $63,806 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 · Human ServicesQUIET OAKS: $28,000 · Human ServicesVraniCURE: $11,375 · Human ServicesINDY FOUNDATION: $119,971 · PhilanthropyTRUE FRIENDS: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsKICK CANCER TO THE CURB MILLE LACS COUNT: $5,000 · Public Benefit
Other$7,634,351Education$830,520Health$769,791Human Services$233,983Philanthropy$119,971Recreation & Sports$15,000Public Benefit$5,000

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 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: $80,802 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP BREAKAWAY: $78,350 over 4y, 86% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $63,806 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH SYSTEM: $57,379 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHPARTNERS INSTITUTE: $55,717 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $53,257 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $51,625 over 7y, 13% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 budgetQUIET OAKS: $28,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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 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
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.

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…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

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 Randy Shaver Cancer Research and Community Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Randy Shaver Cancer Research and Community Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%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
    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
    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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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