· Private foundation
Gertrude R Shiely Char Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNUNCIATION CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| NATIVITY OF OUR LORD CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FREEDOM PARK | $30,000 |
| ST MARY'S HEALTH CLINIC | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| PEACEMAKER | $5,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PBS (TPT) | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF FREEDOM PARK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +21%
- ESEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER5× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +96%
- CSCERENITY SENIOR CARE2× · 2017–2018 · $40k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ST PAUL &one grant, 2017 · $50k
- SOSISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONDELETone grant, 2017 · $15k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA - TWIN CITIESone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
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.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
The mission of minnesota public radio is creating the future of public media by amplifying voices to inform, include, and inspire.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…
The mission of the minnesota public health association (mpha) is to create a healthier minnesota through effective public health practice and engaged citizens. our vision is to be an active, independent voice for public health in minnesota.
We educate women to lead and influence. we educate at all degree levels through valuing and integrating the liberal arts and professional education within the catholic intellectual tradition, see schedule oemphasizing scholarly inquiry and…
Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FREEDOM PARK INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CERENITY SENIOR CARE ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS ↗
- Who funds THOMAS E & EDNA D CARPENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds SPARE KEY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gertrude R Shiely Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gertrude R Shiely Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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