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The Carr Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $289k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRIDE IN THE TIGER FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| HOPE HARBOR | $70,000 |
| SMSU FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $42,000 |
| KITCHEN TABLE FOOD SHELF OF MARSHAL | $40,000 |
| TRUE LIGHT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MARSHALL FOOD 4 KIDS | $30,000 |
| MINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER SCHOOL | $16,760 |
| MARSHALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MARSHALL AREA YMCA | $10,000 |
| LIVING WORD CHURCH | $10,000 |
| PAYNESVILLE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| SAMUEL LUTHERN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL CRIME FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -81% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- PIPRIDE IN THE TIGER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +63%
- HHHOPE HARBOR9× · 2017–2025 · $292k · revenue +97%
- SMSOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -81%
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.
To partner with communities to develop places for people to call home so that people in southwest and south-central minnesota have access to dignified affordable housing, and thriving, inclusive and equitable communities.
We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.
Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.
Southern minnesota initiative foundation is a regional development and philanthropic organization that fosters economic and community vitality in 20 counties of southern minnesota through a culture of collaboration and partnership, with a…
It is the mission of the twin valley council inc., boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. the council serves 69…
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…
Leadership matters mn is focused on advancing a policy agenda that places working minnesotans first. we support economic growth, job creation and equitable tax and education policies that will allow every minnesotan to thrive.
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Light Christian School and the most unlike its peers is Marshall FOOD4KIDS. 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 34 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 57 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
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 PRIDE IN THE TIGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL FOOD4KIDS ↗
- Who funds TRUE LIGHT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE HOME HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL AREA YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOMENS RURAL ADVOCACY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REVERENCE FOR LIFE AND CONCERN FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Help Tuck Them In Inc ↗
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: Southwest Initiative Foundation · Avera Health · Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · United Way of Southwest Minnesota · Sanford Group Return · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 The Carr Family Foundation 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.
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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