How much does Chizek Family Foundation give?

Chizek Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $159,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Chizek Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Environment (15%), Health (14%).

Who are Chizek Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Indiana University Foundation ($120k), Twin Cities Public Television Inc ($43k), Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media ($42k).

Does Chizek Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Chizek Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Chizek Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.

Where is Chizek Family Foundation based?

Chizek Family Foundation is based in MN.

Chizek Family Foundation

Chizek Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$159k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$250kEnvironment$126kHealth$116kArts & Culture$110kAnimals$91kRecreation & Sports$86kInternational$20kCivil Rights$14kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k21 grants · $84k
$10k–50k6 grants · $75k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY	$10,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO	$10,000
CLIMATE GENERATION	$8,000
GENDER JUSTICE	$8,000
PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION	$7,000
MNSNAP	$6,000
PARKS & TRAILS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA	$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MN ND SD	$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER	$5,000
FRESH ENERGY	$5,000
MINNESOTA ENVIRONMENTAL PARTNERSHIP	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$776k · 47 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$776k

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+97%

Still filing today

77%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsHealthHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 Foundation
4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +21%
TC
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +2%
MP
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
8× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +5%

Funded once

IU
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION IU
one grant, 2019 · $20k
IU
INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND FOUND
one grant, 2019 · $20k
MS
MINNESOTA SPAY & NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +10%

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.

04Its field

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.

Minnesota Land Trust

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.

Environment

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…

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Conservation Minnesota

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.

Environment

Minnesota Medical Association

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

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Minnesota Council on Foundations

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

—

MN350

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.

Environment

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

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.

Environment

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…

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St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment

Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freshwater Society; 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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/39

Grantees still filing

31/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$321,700Education$166,720Arts & Culture$84,000Recreation & Sports$77,500Animals$65,300Health$60,750Environment$56,700

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.

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN31.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Chizek Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chizek Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

11report 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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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