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.

Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation

Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$191k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% 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

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $55k
$10k–50k7 grants · $123k
$50k–250k3 grants · $341k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL	$191,000
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE	$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION	$50,000
MILKWEED EDITIONS	$33,000
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER	$25,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND	$20,000
MILL CITY FARMERS MARKET	$15,000
MAC ADMINS FOUNDATION	$10,000
KEYSTONE COMMUNITY SERVICES	$10,000
NORTHERN STAR SCOUTING	$10,000
CREATIVE ENTERPRISE ZONE	$9,000
PHEASANTS FOREVER	$5,000
ST PAUL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL	$5,000
PINK CLOUD FOUNDATION	$5,000
WOMEN VENTURE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 43% of Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 55%.

Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 37 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$263k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+22%

Still filing today

81%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther

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

ST PAUL ACADEMY AND SUMMIT SCHOOL
8× · 2018–2025 · $805k · revenue +48%
NH
NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE
8× · 2018–2025 · $395k · revenue +97%
ND
NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
5× · 2020–2025 · $185k · revenue +65%

Funded once

BG
BETA GROUP
one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +22%
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SECOND HARVEST
one grant, 2020 · $40k
SP
SAINT PAUL AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -79%

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.

Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

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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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Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services

Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education

Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit

Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy

St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy

Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement

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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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Horst Rechelbacher Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 64 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

40/40

Grantees still filing

26/40

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$889,666Other$905,000Community Improvement$618,000Human Services$230,000Arts & Culture$181,000Food & Nutrition$105,000Youth Development$95,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amy and Chip Pearson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home