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The Corval Foundation at a glance

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The Corval Foundation

$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$72kHealth$25kHuman Services$22kRecreation & Sports$13kYouth Development$4kPhilanthropy$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$9,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOTINO GRACE HIGH SCHOOL$9,800
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF MN: $20k → 14%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 7 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$126k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+81%

Still filing today

86%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA
    2× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +77%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $13k · revenue +15%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +301%

Funded once

  • PO
    POLICE OFFICERS FEDERATION OF MINNEAPOLISgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +88%
  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +17%
  • BC
    BEST CHRISTMAS EVER 2019 FAMILIES
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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3
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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…

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6
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

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…

Education
7
Lakewood Health System

The mission of lakewood health system is to provide quality, personalized healthcare for a lifetime.

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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10
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
11
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
12
Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center

To improve lives in our global community by educating diverse groups of highly competent and compassionate health professionals.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Friends; the most unlike its peers is Elk River Wrestling Booster Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOTINO GRACE HIGH SCHOOL: $76,800 · OtherTOTINO GRACE HIGH SCHOOLHUDSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,700 · OtherHUDSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC+6 more: $5,950 · Other+6 moreLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $21,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL S…FRANKLIN CENTER: $7,000 · EducationFRANKLIN CE…Bolder Options: $3,500 · EducationBolder Opti…MINNDEPENDENT: $2,500 · EducationMINNDEPENDE…University of St Thomas: $1,000 · EducationUniversity …CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $12,980 · HealthCROHN'S & …+1 more: $175 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $2,000 · PhilanthropyELK RIVER WRESTLING BOOSTER CLUB: $500 · Recreation & SportsTRUE FRIENDS: $400 · Recreation & SportsANDOVER CENTER ICE CLUB: $100 · Recreation & SportsSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$87,450Human Services$21,000Education$14,000Health$13,155Philanthropy$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,000Food & Nutrition$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $12,980 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN CENTER: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $4,700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBolder Options: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNDEPENDENT: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE OFFICERS FEDERATION OF MINNEAPOLIS: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELK RIVER WRESTLING BOOSTER CLUB: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDOVER CENTER ICE CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Corval Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Corval Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Corval Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Corval Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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