· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MARSHALL FOOD 4 KIDS | $30,000 |
| TRUE LIGHT CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOLY REDEEMER SCHOOL | $16,760 |
| MARSHALL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| PAYNESVILLE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL AREA YMCA | $10,000 |
| MARSHALL CRIME FUND | $10,000 |
| SAMUEL LUTHERN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LIVING WORD CHURCH | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -81% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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