Minnesota · Private foundation
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.
- $512k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations The Carr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $510k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $418k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $305k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $273k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $200k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $180k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $176k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $163k | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pride in the Tiger Foundation | $410,120 | 9 | 15% |
| Hope Harbor | $292,100 | 9 | 4% |
| Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation | $290,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Marshall Food4kids | $140,000 | 7 | 56% |
| True Light Christian School | $127,850 | 9 | 4% |
| Minnesota West Foundation | $117,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Prairie Home Hospice Inc | $59,650 | 8 | 2% |
| Marshall Area Young Mens Christian Association | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Womens Rural Advocacy Programs | $24,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Heart to Heart | $18,550 | 6 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pride in the Tiger Foundation | $410,120 | 9 | 15% |
| Hope Harbor | $292,100 | 9 | 4% |
| Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation | $290,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Marshall Food4kids | $140,000 | 7 | 56% |
| True Light Christian School | $127,850 | 9 | 4% |
| Minnesota West Foundation | $117,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Prairie Home Hospice Inc | $59,650 | 8 | 2% |
| Marshall Area Young Mens Christian Association | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Womens Rural Advocacy Programs | $24,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Heart to Heart | $18,550 | 6 | n/a |
| Reverence for Life and Concern for People Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Help Tuck Them In Inc | $2,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Teenpact Leadership Schools Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Strong Towns | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Orchestra Ltd | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Sioux Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $1,500 | 6 | 0% |
| National Eating Disorders Association | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Knights of Columbus | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($818k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Carr Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Carr Family Foundation
- How much does The Carr Family Foundation give?
- The Carr Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $512,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Carr Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Housing & Shelter (12%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are The Carr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pride in the Tiger Foundation ($410k), Hope Harbor ($292k), Southwest Minnesota State University Foundation ($290k).
- Does The Carr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Carr Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Carr Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southwest Initiative Foundation, Avera Health, Communitygiving.
- Where is The Carr Family Foundation based?
- The Carr Family Foundation is based in MN.
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