Minnesota · Nonprofit
C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION
C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,126,810 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $501M
What C K Blandin Foundation does
Programs
Charles k. Blandin foundation is a rural-based, rural-focused private u.s. Foundation. We support rural communities throughout minnesota, empowering them to promote diversity and embrace sustainability and equity. We center equity of place, race and class in our work and in our grantmaking to nonprofits, government, educational institutions and native governments. Innovation and design program drives integration across program areas to increase impact. The department houses research, project management, and administrative support for program area.
$763,069 spentRural capacity building program - housing programming for scholarships, community relationships, and leadership development, this department works to develop human capital in rural communities so that these communities can thrive. In 2024, we served leaders from 12 communities who received our funding via a community of practice. We developed a sponsorship program in support of local community projects. And provided programmatic support to 376 scholarship recipients in the local giving area.
$627,358 spentRural advocacy program - utilizing public policy research and strategic communications, blandin foundation raises our voice to advance equity of race, place, and class.
$621,912 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $547M to $474M (−13%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tuleah Palmer
President/CEO & secretary
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $400.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $99M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest C K Blandin Residuary Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
29% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.1M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION?
- C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,126,810 to it, the largest being MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION ($1,500,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $2,126,810 in grants to C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION?
- MARGARET A CARGILL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like C K BLANDIN FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing