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The Arrow Giving Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$123k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$675kPhilanthropy$339kInternational$61kHousing & Shelter$61kHealth$59kHuman Services$33kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
$1,200
Median grant
4
States reached
$260k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASHBY LEGACY FUND$123,112
FOUNDATION X$35,000
HOPE 4 YOUTH$15,691
TB1FUND$13,575
FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING$12,874
WELLSTONE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL$10,506
FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD$10,400
HEARTLAND TIRE FOUNDATION$1,500
THE JACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION$1,200
180 DEGREES$1,000
ALEXANDRA HOUSE$1,000
MARANTHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$1,000
THE DRAWER$1,000
M HEALTH FAIRVIEW FOUNDATION$530
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$511
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 (FY19–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $206 → 11%THE DRAWER: $1k → 6%THE DRAWER: $1k → 6%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $1k → 7%ALEXANDRA HOUSE: $1k → 7%CRESCENT COVE: $6k → 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

NH
MN
NY
IN
CT
RI
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 18 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
46

Total granted

$1.1M
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+11%

Still filing today

78%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthInternationalPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesYouth 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

  • FX
    FOUNDATION X
    2× · 2021–2024 · $143k · revenue +109% · 52% of their budget
  • FF
    FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING
    4× · 2021–2024 · $83k · revenue +10%
  • H4
    HOPE 4 Youth
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +270%

Funded once

  • AH
    ANOKA HENNEPIN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +167%
  • FF
    Fastbreak Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -96%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
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
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
5
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
6
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
8
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
9
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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11
Lung Cancer Research Foundation

The mission of the lung cancer research foundation is to improve lung cancer outcomes by funding research for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and cure of lung cancer.

Health
12
Mila's Miracle Foundation

The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Nash Avery 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

45 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. 45 of the 72 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)
44/45
Grantees still filing
32/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASHBY LEGACY FUND: $660,859 · EducationASHBY LEGACY FUND+3 more: $11,630 · EducationFOUNDATION X: $142,702 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION XTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $100,935 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUNDFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING: $82,844 · PhilanthropyFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING+4 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD: $38,200 · HealthTB1 FUND INC: $26,529 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · HealthA Breath of Hope Lung Foundation: $3,100 · HealthCaringBridge: $3,000 · Health+6 more: $4,111 · HealthWELLSTONE INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL: $16,322 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherLEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $6,500 · OtherHEART OF HOUSE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherTHE FIREHOUSE GYM: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherMARANTHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $2,750 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,350 · Other+27 more: $20,764 · OtherHOPE 4 Youth: $60,407 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Youth Development+2 more: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentCRESCENT COVE: $6,250 · Human ServicesThe Drawer: $2,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Human Services+1 more: $206 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,250 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,250 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,250 · InternationalISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $1,250 · InternationalALIGHT: $758 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $500 · International
Education$672,489Philanthropy$338,981Health$80,440Other$77,186Youth Development$65,407Human Services$10,456International$6,258

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 budgetASHBY LEGACY FUND: $660,859 over 6y, 34% of budgetFOUNDATION X: $142,702 over 2y, 52% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $100,935 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING: $82,844 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHOPE 4 Youth: $60,407 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD: $38,200 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTB1 FUND INC: $26,529 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFastbreak Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCRESCENT COVE: $6,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $5,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCaringBridge: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Drawer: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChanhassen Football Gridiron Club: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget180 DEGREES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF ITASCA COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRITT GEORGE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPATRICK SCHOONOVER HEART FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NASH AVERY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALIGHT: $758 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLongfellow Community Council: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRivier University: $721 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHamline Midway Coalition: $650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $511 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $100 over 1y, 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.

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…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Richard M Schulze…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Graco FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…Otto Bremer TrustBame FoundationHardenbergh Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL20.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Bame Foundation · Hardenbergh 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 The Arrow Giving Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arrow Giving Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Arrow Giving Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Arrow Giving Foundation 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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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