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The Rhude Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$230k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$142k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$547kHuman Services$222kHousing & Shelter$195kFood & Nutrition$105kHealth$94kRecreation & Sports$85kEducation$75kEmployment$74k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $216k
$73,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%STAR OF THE NORTH MATERNITY HOME: $50k → 15%STAR OF THE NORTH MATERNITY HOME: $50k → 15%STAR OF THE NORTH MATERNITY HOME: $50k → 15%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$213k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -54% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$1.1M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-54%

Still filing today

50%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEmploymentHealthOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $547k · revenue +32%
  • BC
    BETHANY CRISIS CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $195k
  • TF
    Together For Life Northland
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue -7%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTH HOMES CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • CM
    Central Mesabi Medical Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -54%
  • HC
    HIBBING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
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
Northland Foundation

The northland foundation supports northeastern minnesota people and communities working toward a future where everyone feels they belong and can thrive.

Philanthropy
2
North Dakota Natural Resources Trust
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3
St Luke Community Healthcare Foundation

The foundation is dedicated to improving the care and comfort of patients at st. luke community hospital.

Health
4
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
5
North Lake Wellness Center
—
6
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…

—
7
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
8
St Luke's Wood River Medical Center Ltd

To improve the health of people in the communities we serve.

Health
9
Minnesota Colon and Rectal Foundation
Health
10
Sisters of Mary of the Presentation Long Term Care

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.

Health
11
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

—
12
Wilderness Health Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest North Central Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA: $547,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTABETHANY CRISIS CENTER: $195,000 · OtherBETHANY CRISIS CENTERSecond Harvest Northland: $90,000 · OtherSecond Harvest NorthlandLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES - BETHANY CRISIS CENTER: $75,000 · OtherLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES - BETHANY CRISIS CENTERSALVATION ARMY: $72,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYNORTH HOMES CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · Other+3 more: $75,000 · Other+3 moreTogether For Life Northland: $150,000 · Human ServicesTogether For…MINNESOTA DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES INC: $73,500 · EmploymentTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING: $4,000 · HealthCENTRAL RANGE PICKLEBALL CLUB: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,104,000Human Services$150,000Employment$73,500Education$45,000Health$14,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA: $547,000 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetTogether For Life Northland: $150,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetSecond Harvest Northland: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Mesabi Medical Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST NORTH CENTRAL FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL RANGE PICKLEBALL CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Minnesota Power Found…Duluth-Superior Area …Arsher Charitable Tru…Owens Family Charitab…C K Blandin FoundationNorthland FoundationOtto Bremer TrustSecurity State Bank F…Smdc Medical CenterVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Minnesota Power FoundationMN17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rhude Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rhude Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Rhude Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Rhude Family Charitable 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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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