· Private foundation
Ben & Jeanne Overman Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| CATHOLIC NEWMAN CENTER | $5,000 |
| FIRST WITNESS CHILD ABUSE RESOURCE CENTE | $5,000 |
| SAINT MARK AFRICAN METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| SIGGY'S MUSICAL GARDEN | $4,000 |
| CHUM | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| BERKWOOD SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $4,000 |
| DAMIANO CENTER SOUP KITCHEN | $4,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS | $3,500 |
| MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC | $3,000 |
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 (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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +61% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
- 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%
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 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 ↗
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 · 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
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 Ben & Jeanne Overman 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.
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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