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Arsher Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $483k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH HOMES CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - HIBBING | $100,000 |
| FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH | $100,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHLAND | $82,500 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA | $50,000 |
| STAR OF THE NORTH MATERNITY HOME | $50,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HEALTH SERVICES OF MORRIS INC | $25,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VOYAGEURS LUTHERAN MINISTRY | $20,000 |
| LIGHT THE WAY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $20,000 |
| TWELFTH STEP HOUSE | $20,000 |
| MILLER DWAN FOUNDATION - AMBER WING | $15,000 |
| FAIRVIEW RANGE HOMECARE & HOSPICE | $15,000 |
| NORTHWOODS CHILDREN'S HOME | $15,000 |
| SOLVAY HOSPICE HOUSE | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $709k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 19 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA3× · 2020–2025 · $335k · revenue +42%
- SHSecond Harvest Northland3× · 2023–2025 · $180k · revenue +75%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA5× · 2019–2024 · $125k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- MMDIone grant, 2021 · $165k
- FLFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH HIBBINGone grant, 2023 · $100k
- LPLincoln Parent Teacher Organizationgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +130%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Engaging the community to end hunger
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Glencoe regional health services exists to improve every life by offering high-quality, safe, and accessible healthcare. we are dedicated to strengthening healthcare by connecting our communities, enhancing the patient experience,…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…
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…
We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is Together for Life Northland. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
50 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. 50 of the 107 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds Together For Life Northland ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds TWELFTH STEP HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds WACONIA UNITED FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Family Peace ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Lincoln Parent Teacher Organization ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CARE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Central Mesabi Medical Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · United Way of Ne Minnesota · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Rhude Family Charitable Foundation · Security State Bank Foundation
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 Arsher Charitable Trust 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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