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Amy and Chip Pearson Family 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.

$519k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$191,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 35
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$7.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$519k9%
FY202427$493k4%
FY202330$500k13%
FY202235$359k29%
FY202128$320k29%
FY202029$490k69%
FY201916$209k44%
FY201810$124kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$678kCommunity Improvement$482kHuman Services$425kFood & Nutrition$215kHealth$205kYouth Development$140kArts & Culture$116kEnvironment$88kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Paul Academy and Summit School$804,66681%
Neighborhood House$395,00081%
Neighborhood Development Center Inc$185,00051%
Milkweed Editions Inc$110,00051%
Second Harvest Heartland$100,00050%
Mill City Farmers Market Inc$60,00049%
Keystone Community Services$60,00060%
Greenlight Fund Inc$60,00050%
Northern Star Council$55,00060%
Beta Group$55,000114%
University of Minnesota Foundation$50,00010%
The Cookie Cart$50,00061%
Womenventure$49,00081%
Mill City Farmers Market Charitable Fund$45,00046%
At Home Group$40,00062%
Friends of the Mississippi River$40,00060%
The Sanneh Foundation$40,00060%
New Vision Foundation$35,00051%
Creative Enterprise Zone$34,00064%
The Family Partnership$30,00060%
Lunar Inc$30,00023%
Pink Cloud Foundation$30,0006n/a
Hope Dental Clinic$30,00052%
Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation$25,00011%
Lake Street Council$25,00010%
Chequamegon Area Mountain Bike Associati$25,00032%
St Paul Central High School Foundation$24,00056%
Breakthrough Twin Cities$20,00040%
The Bakken$16,00080%
The Loppet Foundation Inc$15,00030%
Expo Elementary Council of Parents & Teachers Inc$15,00028%
Prepare and Prosper$15,00030%
Walker West Music Academy$10,00020%
Minnesota Center for Book Arts$10,00021%
Interfaith Action of Greater Saint Paul$10,0001n/a
Silicon North Stars$10,0001n/a
Ducks Unlimited Inc$8,00040%
Horst Rechelbacher Foundation$5,00011%
Matter$5,00010%
Juxtaposition Arts Inc$5,00010%
St Paul Capitals Hockey Association$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($382k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Paul Academy and Summit School: $804,666 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNeighborhood House: $395,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNeighborhood Development Center Inc: $185,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMilkweed Editions Inc: $110,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSecond Harvest Heartland: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMill City Farmers Market Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGreenlight Fund Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Star Council: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBeta Group: $55,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $50,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWomenventure: $49,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMill City Farmers Market Charitable Fund: $45,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetAt Home Group: $40,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetFriends of the Mississippi River: $40,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Sanneh Foundation: $40,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNew Vision Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCreative Enterprise Zone: $34,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLunar Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHope Dental Clinic: $30,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSaint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Charitable Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLake Street Council: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChequamegon Area Mountain Bike Associati: $25,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSt Paul Central High School Foundation: $24,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bakken: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Loppet Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetExpo Elementary Council of Parents & Teachers Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPrepare and Prosper: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWalker West Music Academy: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMinnesota Center for Book Arts: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHorst Rechelbacher Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMatter: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJuxtaposition Arts Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Paul Capitals Hockey Association: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN44.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Target Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation

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.

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About Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation

How much does Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation give?
Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $519,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Community Improvement (19%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: St Paul Academy and Summit School ($805k), Neighborhood House ($395k), Neighborhood Development Center Inc ($185k).
Does Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation.
Where is Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation based?
Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 64 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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