· Private foundation
The Carter Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Crowd Source Rescue | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 54% of The Carter Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 46%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NFNMDP FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +92%
- BIBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE5× · 2017–2023 · $216k · revenue +60%
- EMEVERY MEAL6× · 2017–2023 · $178k · revenue +558%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -12%
- IFINSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER SCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -64% · 27% of their budget
- RHREGIONS HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +35%
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.
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To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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How this is measured
86 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
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- 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 ↗
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- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FRONTIER SCIENCE ↗
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carter Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carter Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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