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The Culp Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$328k
Granted FY2022
25
Grants FY2022
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Culp Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Culp Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $328k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

19
’20
21
’21
17
’22
14
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$1.8MHousing & Shelter$274kEducation$173kFood & Nutrition$154kHealth$139kReligion$117kArts & Culture$86kHuman Services$56kOther$0
02FY2022 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k16 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TWINS CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$150,000
EVERY MEAL$30,000
THEATER LATTE DA$25,000
MAYO CLINIC$15,595
ASCENSION CATHOLIC SCHOOL$12,500
GIFTS FOR SENIORS$11,000
THE RETREAT$10,000
ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM$10,000
CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
BOY SCOUTS$5,000
MY VERY OWN BED$5,000
YOUTH FRONTIERS$5,000
BRIDGING$5,000
ST NICHOLAS MISSION PARISH UKRAINIAN CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
THIS OLD HORSE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THIS OLD HORSE: $5k → 6%CHILD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $5k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%AVIVO: $3k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $5k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $2k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $2k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
AZ
TN
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$757k · 25 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
19

Total granted

$757k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+53%

Still filing today

56%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TC
    TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $170k · revenue +46%
  • EM
    EVERY MEAL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $150k · revenue +558%
  • TL
    THEATER LATTE DA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TQ
    THE QUELL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +278%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - CAMPBELL HALL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • BO
    BASILICA OF ST MARY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
3
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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4
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
5
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
6
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
7
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
University of Minnesota Foundation

A non-profit organization with the sole purpose of supporting the university of minnesota with a mission to connect passion with possibility, inspire generosity, and support greatness at the university of minnesota.

Education
10
Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education
11
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
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Frontiers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prairiecare Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr17%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr17%75%20–35yr15%11%35–55yr17%4%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,113

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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,755,915 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST+5 more — $64,000 · PhilanthropyTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $170,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR H…ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherST JOHN'S UNIVERSITYTHE RETREAT — $80,000 · OtherTHE RETREATITASCA COUNTY HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY — $40,000 · OtherITASCA COUNTY HOUSING AND…Bridging Inc — $36,000 · OtherBridging IncUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - CAMPBELL HALL — $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES — $25,000 · OtherASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL — $22,500 · Other+31 more — $176,075 · Other+31 moreEVERY MEAL — $150,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $3,500 · Food & NutritionMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $45,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $41,190 · HealthTHE QUELL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthTHEATER LATTE DA — $75,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Theatre Company and School — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesChild Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHIS OLD HORSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $5,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $3,000 · Human ServicesAVIVO — $2,500 · Human ServicesGifts for Seniors — $11,000 · EducationPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 — $10,000 · EducationWILLIAM SCHEID FUND FOR A BETTER FUTURE — $7,500 · EducationGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC — $2,500 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $2,500 · Education
Philanthropy$1,819,915Other$674,575Food & Nutrition$153,500Health$122,190Arts & Culture$82,000Human Services$60,500Education$33,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $1,755,915 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $170,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATER LATTE DA — $75,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION — $52,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $41,190 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Inc — $36,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMy Very Own Bed — $14,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGifts for Seniors — $11,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChild Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH ENERGY — $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHIS OLD HORSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWomen's Foundation of Minnesota — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIECARE FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMOR TO FIGHT THE TUMOR FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACEPOINT SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA CHILL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAVIVO — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOND BETWEEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARM IN ARM IN AFRICA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMinnPost — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERWOOD FARMSTEAD FOUNDATION CORPO — $500 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Margaret a Cargill Fo…The Phileona Foundati…Otto Bremer TrustThe K FoundationWem FoundationFr Bigelow Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN41× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Phileona Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The K Foundation · Wem Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation

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 Culp 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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