· Private foundation
Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Dba Scott Richards North Star
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of SCOTT RICHARDS NORTH STAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION DBA SCOTT RICHARDS NORTH STAR’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k80 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION | $119,755 |
| STOP ALZHEIMER'S NOW | $32,870 |
| COMMONWEALTH OF PA DEPT OF HUMAN SVCS | $30,000 |
| BESTPREP | $25,500 |
| BREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| KIDS FIGHTING HUNGER | $3,000 |
| ACCOLA | $3,000 |
| CRETIN-DERHAM HALL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,950 |
| SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS | $2,000 |
| GILMORE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $1,750 |
| LOUEYS-DIETZ SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $1,710 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $1,500 |
| PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION | $990 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $690 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SASTOP ALZHEIMERS NOW7× · 2019–2025 · $198k · revenue +634% · 79% of their budget
- CCCHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $192k · revenue +40%
- BBESTPREP7× · 2019–2025 · $177k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TUTEMPLE UNIVERSITY IAone grant, 2024 · $505k
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2019 · $100k
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY-CAone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
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…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
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…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Amna Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
139 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 139 of the 216 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds STOP ALZHEIMERS NOW ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BESTPREP ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEROES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Twin Cities Lyme Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIGHTING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds CSJ Ministries Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Tuff Fund ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Gilmore Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALEX HAUNTYS THEATER AND ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHLOES COURAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds ACCOLA ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MIDWEST BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CANOPY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Walker Methodist Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Kopp Family Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Pohlad Family 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 Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Dba Scott Richards North Star 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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