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Chizek 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC | $15,000 |
| THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA | $10,000 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CLIMATE GENERATION | $8,000 |
| GENDER JUSTICE | $8,000 |
| PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| MNSNAP | $6,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MN ND SD | $5,000 |
| PARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA | $5,000 |
| FRESH ENERGY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER | $5,000 |
| MINNESOTA ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
47 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
Indiana University Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +21%- TCTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +2%
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IUone grant, 2019 · $20k
- IUINDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND FOUNDone grant, 2019 · $20k
- MSMINNESOTA SPAY & NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +10%
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 minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.
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…
Conservation minnesota's mission is to turn our shared conservation values into state priorities and provide you with the information you need to make decisions for your family, community and future.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Mn350 unites minnesotans with the global movement to end the pollution damaging our climate, speed the transition to clean energy, and create a just and healthy future for all.
The minnesota center for environmental advocacy is a nonprofit organization that uses law, science and research to protect minnesota's environment, its natural resources and the health of its people.
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…
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freshwater Society and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 55 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 Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds THE LOPPET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MINNESOTA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB TWIN CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR CATS INC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds GENDER JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds PARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATE THE CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Lake Minnetonka Association ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds OUR STREETS ↗
- Who funds COMPASSIONATE ACTION FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds LAND STEWARDSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · The K Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · James T Nystrom Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Joyce Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global 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 Chizek Family Foundation 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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