· Private foundation
Ben & Jeanne Overman Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $53,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $28,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA | $13,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $8,500 |
| FIRST WITNESS CHILD ABUSE RESOURCE CENTE | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| CHUM | $4,000 |
| SIGGY'S MUSICAL GARDEN | $4,000 |
| DAMIANO CENTER SOUP KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| BERKWOOD SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $4,000 |
| SAINT MARK AFRICAN METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS | $3,500 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $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 (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +64% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JSJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +61%
- CUCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +131%
- FWFIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- HDHUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
- JJRCCone grant, 2020 · $2k
- UAUrban Adamahone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -26%
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.
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 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.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
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 nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FIRST WITNESS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON LAW ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds 23RD VETERAN ↗
- Who funds CHOCHMAT HALEV ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Berkwood School ↗
- Who funds SHOLOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTOR NORTH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT SIERRA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Urban Adamah ↗
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: Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Northland Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Pachel Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ben & Jeanne Overman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ben & Jeanne Overman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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