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Charles Engasser Memorial Foundation Inc

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.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Health$30kEducation$18kYouth Development$10kReligion$8kRecreation & Sports$4kArts & Culture$4kCivil Rights$4kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
All Saints Lutheran Church$7,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities$6,960
Amherst Central High School$5,800
Advocates for Better Health$5,000
Camp Breakaway via Minneapolis Foundation$4,276
Childrens Healthcare Foundation$4,120
Camp Breakaway$4,000
Alzheimers Association$3,659
Alzheimers Association$3,627
GiGis Playhouse$3,157
MakeAWish America$3,150
Eleven11 Charity$3,090
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$3,000
PROP People Reaching Out to People$3,000
Williams College$2,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MakeAWish America: $3k → 11%Williams College: $2k → 12%Various: $64k → 5%MN CANCER RESEARCH: $8k → 11%Boys & Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities: $7k → 14%Amherst Central High School: $6k → 13%American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: $1k → 14%National Alliance on Mental Illness NAMI: $1k → 7%Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: $3k → 8%Saint Hubert Catholic Church: $250 → 5%Advocates for Better Health: $5k → 11%Orthopaedic Research and Education Fdn: $1k → 14%Saint Hubert Catholic Church: $250 → 5%Eleven11 Charity: $3k → 11%GiGis Playhouse: $3k → 14%Ridgeview Foundation: $1k → 5%Camp Breakaway: $4k → 11%Alzheimers Association: $4k → 14%Ridgeview Foundation: $1k → 5%PROP People Reaching Out to People: $3k → 11%Alzheimers Association: $4k → 14%VARIOUS: $46k → 11%Alzheimers Association: $550 → 14%VARIOUS: $42k → 11%Camp Breakaway via Minneapolis Foundation: $4k → 11%Childrens Healthcare Foundation: $4k → 11%Little Earth of United Tribes: $1k → 11%All Saints Lutheran Church: $7k → 11%The Bond Between: $1k → 11%Hennepin Theatre Trust: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
4
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
5
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

7
Riverview Healthcare Association

We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…

Health
8
Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

9
American Association of Medical Society Executives

American association of medical society executives (aamse) is committed to educating and supporting medical society professionals to advance the profession of medical society management, medical societies, and the physicians they serve.

10
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…

11
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
12
Osteopathic Founders Foundation

The mission of the osteopathic founders foundation is to support osteopathic medical education, to enhance the public's understanding of osteopathic medicine, and to improve the health of the community through projects consistent with the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Various — $152,630 · OtherVariousAMHURST CENTRAL HS — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $8,490 · OtherAll Saints Lutheran Church — $7,000 · Other+10 more — $26,019 · Other+10 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,836 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …ADVOCATES FOR BETTER HEALTH — $5,000 · HealthADVOCATES FO…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $4,120 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…CAMP BREAKAWAY — $4,000 · HealthCAMP BREAKAW…CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBRO…Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEONS — $1,000 · HealthBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $6,960 · Youth DevelopmentWilliams College — $2,000 · EducationRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BOND BETWEEN — $1,245 · AnimalsHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$204,139Health$25,956Youth Development$6,960Education$2,000Philanthropy$2,000Animals$1,245Arts & Culture$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $7,836 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $6,960 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Charles Engasser Memorial Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Charles Engasser Memorial Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Charles Engasser Memorial Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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