How much does Chs Foundation give?

Chs Foundation reported 92 grants totaling $5,738,995 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 91 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Chs Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (49%), Education (38%), Youth Development (8%).

Who are Chs Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: National FFA Foundation Inc ($5.6M), National 4-H Council ($2.2M), Agriculture Future of America ($2.0M).

Does Chs Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Chs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Chs Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Land O'Lakes Foundation, The Growmark Foundation, Otto Bremer Trust.

Chs Foundation

Chs Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Chs Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.7M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$1.4M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$14MEducation$11MYouth Development$2.2MHealth$621kCommunity Improvement$356kScience & Tech$284kPhilanthropy$68kHuman Services$54kOther$0

02FY2025 · 92 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $69k
$10k–50k59 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
$250k+5 grants · $3.2M

$14,000

Median grant

States reached

$66M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Chs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Chs Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$26M · 78 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

112

Total granted

$26M

$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

Still filing today

78%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

NF
National FFA Foundation Inc
5× · 2019–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +86%
N4
National 4-H Council
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +10%
AF
AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA
7× · 2019–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +70%

Funded once

NF
NORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2022 · $363k · revenue -65%
CS
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2024 · $261k
MC
MARSHFIELD CLINIC INC
one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%

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.

Northeast Iowa Dairy & Agriculture Foundation

Providing progressive outreach for youth, students, farmers, industry and consumers to strengthen and support a strong agriculture community.

Education

The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education

Idaho Ffa Foundation Inc

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

Youth Development

North Dakota University System Foundation

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.

Philanthropy

The Agricultural Foundation of California State University Fresno

Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.

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Cook County Farm Bureau Foundation

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…

Food & Nutrition

Farmers Educational & Cooperative Union of America Montana

Inform, educate & represent member interests

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Valley City State University Foundation

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…

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Missouri Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture

To assist in providing agricultural related education to all persons and developing agricultural leaders for the future.

Youth Development

Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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Minnesota Ffa Foundation Inc

To provide financial support to future farmers of america (ffa) programs and students in minnesota.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Farmers Union Foundation; 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.

05the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 206 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)

86/87

Grantees still filing

61/87

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$10,135,000Education$9,068,380Other$5,302,625Food & Nutrition$3,397,981Health$618,200Public Benefit$157,000Community Improvement$94,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

Land O'Lakes FoundationMN32.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Chs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home