· Private foundation
Albert W Cherne 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY DISCOVERY CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| RISEN CHRIST SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| MINNESOTA HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE | $10,000 |
| THE KIRSCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MANITOWISH WATERS LAKES ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| HATS AND MITTENS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HISTORIC IRONWOOD THEATER | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL2× · 2024–2025 · $275k · revenue +5%
The President and Trustees of Colby College4× · 2017–2020 · $250k · revenue +37%- PSPHOENIX SEMINARY INC5× · 2017–2024 · $220k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CJCAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -10%
- CJCAMP JORN YOUNG MENS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TSTUCK SCHOOL AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
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.
Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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,…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DARK SKY DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SEMINARY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds CAMP JORN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HATS & MITTENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Kirsch Foundation ↗
- Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds MANITOWISH WATERS LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Albert W Cherne Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert W Cherne Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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