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The Garrett 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$105kHealth$98kHousing & Shelter$57kAnimals$50kYouth Development$37kPhilanthropy$35kInternational$30kEnvironment$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$696k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$20,000
RICHMOND ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL$20,000
GLOBAL CONMMUNITIES$20,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SETTLED INCORPORATED: $20k → 14%BLACK MEN TEACH: $20k → 11%SOLID GROUND: $20k → 14%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOT: $15k → 14%FRASER: $23k → 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

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IL
PA
MO
VA
MD
KS
NC
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 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
Living Well Disability Services

Living Well Disability Services transforms the lives of people impacted by disabilities through the delivery of exceptional services.

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2
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
3
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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4
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
5
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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6
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
7
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
8
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
9
Able Inc

A b l e , inc (a brighter living experience, inc) is organized to provide residential care for developmentally disabled minnesota residents at its residential and intermediate care facilities located in houston county, minnesota. the…

Human Services
10
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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11
Goodwill Industries Inc

The mission of Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota is to eliminate barriers to work and independence. The vision of Goodwill-Easter Seals Minnesota is a world where everyone experiences the power of work.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc and the most unlike its peers is Face It Foundation. 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 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr18%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%14%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr18%44%55yr+

The field is 17% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,967

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

22 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. 22 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMM…FACE IT FOUNDATION — $23,300 · EducationFACE IT FOUNDATIONLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITYStart Reading Now — $10,000 · EducationStart Reading NowOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $10,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH I…FRASER — $23,300 · Human ServicesFRASERBlack Men Teach — $20,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men TeachSolid Ground — $20,000 · Human ServicesSolid GroundSETTLED INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Human ServicesSETTLED INCORPORATEDINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $15,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE…Individual grant recipient — $23,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRICHMOND ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROL — $20,000 · OtherRICHMOND ANIMAL CARE AND CONTROLAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA — $16,660 · OtherAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINN…STEPHANIE WATERMAN FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherSTEPHANIE WATERMAN FOUNDATIONLEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $15,000 · OtherLEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLSVARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 8 — $20,000 · OtherVARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 8GLOBAL COMMUNITIES — $20,000 · OtherGLOBAL COMMUNITIESDomestic Abuse Project Inc — $15,000 · OtherDomestic Abuse Project IncWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $15,000 · OtherWILDERNESS INQUIRY INCWashburn Center for Children — $20,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $15,000 · HealthAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $16,660 · Youth DevelopmentChicago Youth Centers — $16,660 · Youth DevelopmentBlue Ridge Boxer Rescue Inc — $20,000 · AnimalsK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $10,000 · AnimalsANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Civil Rights
Education$103,300Human Services$98,300Other$159,960Health$35,000Youth Development$33,320Animals$30,000Civil Rights$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFACE IT FOUNDATION — $23,300 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetFRASER — $23,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Men Teach — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSolid Ground — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSETTLED INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBlue Ridge Boxer Rescue Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $16,660 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Youth Centers — $16,660 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA — $16,660 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDomestic Abuse Project Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The Richard M Schulze…Charities Aid Foundat…Otto Bremer TrustPatrick and Aimee But…Fred C and Katherine …Fr Bigelow FoundationCatholic Community Fo…United Way Worldwide
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL24.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Otto Bremer Trust · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · United Way Worldwide

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 Garrett 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 · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 44%
  • Global Communities — 44% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Garrett Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Garrett Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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