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Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Dba Scott Richards North Star at a glance

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Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Dba Scott Richards North Star

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$270k
Granted FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
17
States reached
$120k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$2.2MEducation$897kRecreation & Sports$50kHuman Services$34kReligion$33kYouth Development$22kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k80 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$500
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ACCOLA$3,000
KIDS FIGHTING HUNGER$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUR LADY'S INN: $500 → 11%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS: $5k → 14%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS: $2k → 6%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS: $2k → 6%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS: $1k → 6%DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $750 → 14%HAPPILY EVER AFTER LEAGUE INC: $250 → 11%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS: $1k → 6%ANOKA COUNTY BROTHERHOOD COUNCIL: $460 → 7%DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $750 → 14%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA: $150 → 11%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS: $1k → 6%DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $500 → 14%EVERYBODY MATTERS INC: $470 → 11%DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $500 → 14%EVERYBODY MATTERS INC: $250 → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2k → 11%DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $500 → 14%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $500 → 11%DAILY WORK: $500 → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FOUNDATIO: $7k → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FOUNDATIO: $4k → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FOUNDATIO: $3k → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FOUNDATIO: $1k → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FDN: $1k → 14%SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH MINISTRIES FOUNDATIO: $1k → 14%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $150 → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $100 → 11%PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $1k → 11%PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $500 → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $125 → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA: $500 → 11%HELPING PAWS OF MINNESOTA: $125 → 11%VULCAN COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $500 → 11%VULCAN COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $250 → 11%VULCAN COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $250 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
GA
TX
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.6M · 99 repeat orgs$734k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

99
85

Total granted

$2.6M
$688k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+8%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • SA
    STOP ALZHEIMERS NOW
    7× · 2019–2025 · $198k · revenue +634% · 79% of their budget
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $192k · revenue +40%
  • B
    BESTPREP
    7× · 2019–2025 · $177k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TU
    TEMPLE UNIVERSITY IA
    one grant, 2024 · $505k
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • TF
    Tuff Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
3
Minnesota Medical Association

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

—
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
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…

—
6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
7
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
8
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

—
9
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
10
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
11
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
12
Great Mn Schools

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.

Education
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 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.
04the grantee network

139 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. 139 of the 216 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
135/139
Grantees still filing
85/139
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEWIS KATZ SCHOOL OF MED AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $1,450,000 · OtherLEWIS KATZ SCHOOL OF MED AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITYTEMPLE UNIVERSITY IA: $505,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY IABESTPREP: $177,000 · OtherBESTPREPMAYO CLINIC: $100,000 · Other+119 more: $233,856 · Other+119 moreSTOP ALZHEIMERS NOW: $197,697 · HealthSTOP ALZHEIMERS NO…CHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC: $191,590 · HealthCHILDREN'S CARDIOM…BREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER EDUC…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,500 · Health+16 more: $26,504 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $170,000 · Education+25 more: $20,625 · EducationCSJ Ministries Foundation: $16,160 · Human ServicesSAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesDIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $3,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $1,500 · Human Services+9 more: $4,855 · Human ServicesUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $35,725 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsKIDS FIGHTING HUNGER: $17,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OPEN DOOR: $1,050 · Food & Nutrition+3 more: $1,050 · Food & NutritionTuff Fund: $10,000 · PhilanthropyROTARY CLUB OF MINNETONKA FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyFIGHT WITH AUSTIN FLASH SCHROEDER FOUNDA TION: $1,022 · PhilanthropyThe J Foundation: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DENVER FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $1,100 · Philanthropy
Other$2,465,856Health$541,291Education$190,625Human Services$39,515Recreation & Sports$37,225Food & Nutrition$19,100Philanthropy$16,122

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetSTOP ALZHEIMERS NOW: $197,697 over 7y, 79% of budgetCHILDREN'S CARDIOMYOPATHY FOUNDATION INC: $191,590 over 2y, 12% of budgetBESTPREP: $177,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $170,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBREAST CANCER EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE: $35,725 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTwin Cities Lyme Foundation: $35,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS FIGHTING HUNGER: $17,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetCSJ Ministries Foundation: $16,160 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INC: $12,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetTuff Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $6,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $5,084 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gilmore Family Foundation: $4,250 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetALEX HAUNTYS THEATER AND ARTS FUND INC: $3,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetCHLOES COURAGE FUND: $3,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA: $3,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetACCOLA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $2,953 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL MIDWEST BALLET INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWalker Methodist Foundation: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCANOPY CENTER INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $2,305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS AUGUST JONAS FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWE CAN RIDE INC: $2,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Ataxia Foundation Incorporated: $2,060 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF MINNETONKA FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE CLINIC OF PIERCE AND ST CROIX COUNTIES INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSARTELL-ST STEPHEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRHINOS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HANDS ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $1,625 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REEL HOPE PROJECT: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLACKHAWKS OF ST PAUL SOCCER CLUB: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN MOTORCYCLISTS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVLIFE--JOHNSON COUNTY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,380 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,215 over 5y, 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 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 DIAPER BANK OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds ACCOLA ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MIDWEST BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Walker Methodist Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CANOPY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Catholic Community Fo…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Otto Bremer TrustKopp Family FoundationFred C and Katherine …Pohlad Family Foundat…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN35.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Dba Scott Richards North Star funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Dba Scott Richards North Star. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
32report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Scott Richards North Star Charitable Foundation Dba Scott Richards North Star 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 216 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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The unnamed billions
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