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The Rhude Family Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $216k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA | $142,000 |
| MINNESOTA DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES INC | $73,500 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING | $4,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA7× · 2019–2025 · $547k · revenue +32%
- BCBETHANY CRISIS CENTER2× · 2020–2021 · $195k
- TFTogether For Life Northland3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- NHNORTH HOMES CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $50k
- CMCentral Mesabi Medical Foundationone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -54%
- HCHIBBING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k
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 northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.
The foundation is dedicated to improving the care and comfort of patients at st. luke community hospital.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
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…
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.
SMP Health - Long Term Care, inspired by the Sisters of Mary of the Presentation, serves those in our care with respect and compassion as we strive to fulfill the healing mission of Jesus.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Our mission is to provide better healthcare for the rural communities in northeastern minnesota and northwestern wisconsin. through empowerment and collaboration with independent health providers, wilderness health is able to help meet the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest North Central Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Central Range Pickleball Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Together For Life Northland ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Central Mesabi Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL RANGE PICKLEBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING ↗
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: Minnesota Power Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Arsher Charitable Trust · Owens Family Charitable Foundation · C K Blandin Foundation · Northland Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Security State Bank Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Rhude Family Charitable 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.
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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