· Private foundation
Chs Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $3.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION | $1,430,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $1,000,000 |
| DISCOVERY EDUCATION INC | $275,000 |
| AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA | $272,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO FOUNDATION INC | $262,136 |
| LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $229,361 |
| PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION | $160,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $154,307 |
| AGRISAFE NETWORK INC | $150,000 |
| NATIONAL AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM | $105,000 |
| MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $97,369 |
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $89,679 |
| NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $83,333 |
| LAKE REGION COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF DEVILS LAKE | $75,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Chs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 12 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- N4National 4-H Council6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +10%
- AFAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +70%
- UOUniversity of Idaho Foundation Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $954k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NFNORTHWEST FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $363k · revenue -65%
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $261k
- MCMARSHFIELD CLINIC INCone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
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.
Providing progressive outreach for youth, students, farmers, industry and consumers to strengthen and support a strong agriculture community.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
To Promote Premier Leadership, Personal Growth and Career Success of Idaho FFA Members and Agricultural Education Students by Providing Strategic Financial Resources for the Idaho FFA Association
The function of the north dakota university system foundation is to support, enrich, advance and improve higher education in the state of north dakota, and to assist its students, faculty and staff.
Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.
Cook county farm bureau foundation was established (1)to provide scholarships for persons studying agriculture and related fields, including but not limited to business, economics, education, veterinary medicine, association management and…
Inform, educate & represent member interests
Valley City State University Foundation aids in the advancement of Valley City State University by awarding scholarships and by promoting the University. Support comes primarily from contributions by individuals and businesses, fundraising…
To assist in providing agricultural related education to all persons and developing agricultural leaders for the future.
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
To provide financial support to future farmers of america (ffa) programs and students in minnesota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Farmers Union Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 206 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds University of Idaho Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Montana State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS A&M UNIV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Agriculture in the Classroom Organization ↗
- Who funds AGRISAFE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bismarck State College Foundation ↗
- Who funds Association of Cooperative Educators ↗
- Who funds LAKE REGION COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF DEVILS LAKE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE EDUCATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN FARMERS UNION EDUCATIONAL AND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Minorities in Agriculture Natural Resources and Related Science ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Growmark Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Minnesota Community Foundation · Farm Aid Inc · Otter Tail Power Company Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Project Lead the Way Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · Sanford Group Return · South Dakota Community Foundation · American Farm Bureau Federation
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 Chs 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.