· Private foundation
The Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $148k
- $250k+2 grants · $715k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minneapolis Foundaton | $455,000 |
| Metropolitan State University Foundation | $260,000 |
| Westminster Church | $95,288 |
| The Kirsch Foundation | $52,575 |
| Saidiana | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Mighty Cause Charitable Foundation | $7,680 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,686 |
| Charity Classic | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,610 |
| Aerial Recovery | $2,505 |
| Big Sky Community Organization | $2,500 |
| CHR Community Housing and Resources | $2,500 |
| Compassion International Ministries | $2,486 |
| Samaritans Purse | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $197k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 54% of The Carter Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in MN; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- NFNMDP FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +106%
- BIBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE5× · 2017–2023 · $216k · revenue +60%
- EMEVERY MEAL6× · 2017–2023 · $178k · revenue +558%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER SCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -64% · 27% of their budget
- RHREGIONS HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +35%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -12%
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
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,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
86 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. 86 of the 148 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 METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NMDP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds TAKE CHARGE MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds SAIDIANA ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Wellspring for the World Inc ↗
- Who funds The Kirsch Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW COVENANT MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIVEMN ↗
- Who funds Kwanzaa Community Church PCUSA Liberty Community Church PCUSA ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Michael D Arneson and Susan H Arneson · Donors Trust Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Spanish Peaks Community Foundation · Harold W Sweatt Foundation · Moonlight Community Foundation · Glore Fund
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 Carter 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
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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