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Alice G Strobel Charitable Trust Created U/A/D June 22 2011

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.

$170k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0167% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$407kFood & Nutrition$392kEducation$163kReligion$72kAnimals$60kHuman Services$60kPublic Benefit$50kPhilanthropy$50kInternational$46kOther$735k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC$50,000
HOME BASE FLORIDA$50,000
STARKEY HEARING FOUNDATION$25,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$25,000
Individual grant recipient$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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%FOOT FORWARD: $25k → 15%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $25k → 11%MINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE: $10k → 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

MN
NY
MA
OH
CA
UT
MO
KY
TN
SC
DC
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 edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 18 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
25

Total granted

$1.6M
$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+22%

Still filing today

78%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureOther

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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +31%
  • M
    MATTER
    4× · 2020–2023 · $192k · revenue +55%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $161k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • DF
    Dogs For Our Brave Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +488%
  • MM
    MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +161%
  • TB
    THE BRIDGE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
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
2
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
3
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
4
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
5
Hennepin Healthcare Research Institute

Improve patient care and the health of our community through research and education.

Health
6
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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7
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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8
Essentia Health

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

Health
9
Minnesota Zoo Foundation

The minnesota zoo foundation raises contributed income and supports conservation and animal care programs on behalf of the minnesota zoo. the mission of the minnesota zoo is to connect people, animals, and the natural world to save…

Animals
10
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
11
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
12
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Starkey Hearing Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports Booster Organi…Community Health CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Government Accountability R…Child and Family ServicesFallen First Responder Supp…Veteran Support ServicesHomeless Services & ShelterLand Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceChristian Missionary Organi…Public University Foundatio…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr16%30%35–55yr18%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%8%<5yr12%1%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr18%24%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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%0/32
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,957

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

30 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. 30 of the 44 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)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOME BASE FLORIDA — $150,000 · OtherHOME BASE FLORIDASPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $135,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INCPLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $82,120 · OtherPLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHHOME BASE — $55,000 · OtherHOME BASEMINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER ASSOCIATION — $50,000 · OtherMINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER ASSOCIATIONTHE BRIDGE FUND — $50,000 · OtherTHE BRIDGE FUNDTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $30,000 · OtherDogs For Our Brave Inc — $50,000 · OtherDogs For Our Brave IncMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATIONPACER CENTER INC — $30,000 · Other+18 more — $199,156 · Other+18 moreStarkey Hearing Foundation — $125,000 · HealthStarkey Hearing Founda…ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $124,999 · HealthESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDA…Washburn Center for Children — $100,000 · HealthWashburn Center for Ch…ANGEL FOUNDATION — $35,000 · HealthANGEL FOUNDATIONST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $200,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTL…MATTER — $192,400 · Food & NutritionMATTERUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $160,500 · EducationUNIVERSIT…+1 more — $2,500 · EducationENGAGE YOUR DESTINY — $71,500 · ReligionAnimal Humane Society — $45,000 · AnimalsVanderpump Dog Foundation — $15,000 · AnimalsFOOT FORWARD INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$881,276Health$407,499Food & Nutrition$392,400Education$163,000Religion$71,500Animals$60,000Human Services$60,000

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 budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMATTER — $192,400 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $160,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetStarkey Hearing Foundation — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $124,999 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWashburn Center for Children — $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetENGAGE YOUR DESTINY — $71,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetDogs For Our Brave Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAnimal Humane Society — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPACER CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITAKER PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVanderpump Dog Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Boxing Club International Boxing Club — $10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMINNESOTA FIREFIGHTER INITIATIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBolder Options — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Raymond James Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Alice G Strobel Charitable Trust Created U/A/D June 22 2011 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%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 44 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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