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Getsch Charitable Trust at a glance

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Getsch Charitable Trust

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.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$531kHuman Services$197kInternational$176kYouth Development$70kHealth$57kFood & Nutrition$34kHousing & Shelter$33kScience & Tech$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tandem Family Resources$18,000
Tutapona$16,250
Haiti Outreach$14,000
Youth Frontiers$10,000
The Dwelling Place$10,000
Options for Women$8,000
Presbyterian Homes Foundation$8,000
DC Everest Area School District$6,500
The Society of GK Chesterton$6,000
Life Spring$6,000
Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls$5,000
Faith & Learning Intl$5,000
Make Old Things New$4,000
Wycliffe Bible Translators$4,000
Answers in Genesis$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%The Dwelling Place: $10k → 7%Settled Incorporated: $3k → 14%The Dwelling Place: $10k → 7%The Dwelling Place: $8k → 7%The Dwelling Place: $3k → 7%Joy to the World Foundation: $1k → 9%Presbyterian Homes Foundation: $8k → 14%Presbyterian Homes Foundation: $8k → 14%Presbyterian Homes Foundation: $6k → 14%Presbyterian Homes Foundation: $3k → 14%Presbyterian Homes Foundation: $2k → 14%Presbyterian Homes Foundation: $2k → 14%Youth Frontiers: $10k → 11%Youth Frontiers: $6k → 11%Youth Frontiers: $6k → 11%Avivo MN: $2k → 11%Community Emergency Service: $2k → 11%Avivo MN: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
IN
OH
CA
CO
MO
KY
DE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 75 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

75 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
35

Total granted

$1.1M
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+55%

Still filing today

43%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEducationOther
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

  • TF
    TANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +20%
  • TI
    TUTAPONA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $52k · revenue +47%
  • AI
    ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • CC
    CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC
    one grant, 2022 · $28k
  • LS
    Life Spring
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADOgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +124%
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.

1
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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3
Timothy Two Project International

Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.

Religion
4
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
5
Next Worldwide Inc

With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.

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6
Arrive Ministries

Arrive ministries is dedicated to living out god's command to welcome refugees and immigrants in minnesota. our purpose is to see life transformation for refugees, immigrants, and the church.

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7
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
8
Pilgrim Africa

Pilgrim Africa's mission is to challenge despair, love boldly, and help African people create a future of sustainable prosperity and health. We give ourselves in service to others regardless of economic, religious, or social standing,…

International
9
Tellasia Ministries Inc

Tellasia brings christ and establishes communities of faith where he is not yet known. win life mentors new disciples, establishes self-supporting churches, trains pastors, and catalyzes church planting movements.

Religion
10
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
11
Peacemaker Ministries

To equip and assist christians and their churches to respond to conflict biblically.

International
12
Global Outreach International Inc

To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Multiplied America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Life Spring. 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

58 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. 58 of the 119 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/58
Grantees still filing
36/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE HOLY FAMILY: $101,600 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HOLY FAMILYTANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $56,250 · OtherTANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INCDC Everest Area School District: $29,500 · OtherCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,900 · Other+75 more: $460,170 · Other+75 moreHAITI OUTREACH INC: $88,250 · InternationalHAITI OUTREACH I…TUTAPONA INC: $52,450 · InternationalTUTAPONA INCLife Spring: $16,000 · InternationalLife SpringSOLE HOPE INC: $12,000 · InternationalSOLE HOPE INC+1 more: $5,700 · InternationalANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $38,500 · ReligionANSWERS IN…PATHWAYS TO HOPE AFRICA: $23,000 · ReligionPATHWAYS T…GREATER EUROPE MISSION: $17,500 · ReligionGREATER EU…Faith and Learning International NFP: $5,000 · ReligionTraining Leaders International: $4,900 · ReligionMIO Frontiers: $4,500 · ReligionEast-West Ministries International: $4,000 · ReligionIntegra Ventures Inc: $4,000 · Religion+6 more: $8,500 · Religion+6 moreThe Dwelling Place: $30,100 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $27,600 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $21,600 · Human ServicesSURPASSING GRACE: $8,000 · Human ServicesAVIVO: $3,500 · Human Services+3 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesLaunch Ministry: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $18,500 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE MINNESOTA: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHUG Life Ministry Corporation: $2,900 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $16,800 · PhilanthropySalt Ventures NFP: $16,500 · PhilanthropyVOYAGEUR FOUNDATION INC: $13,700 · PhilanthropyINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $24,500 · Science & TechGlacier Peak Institute: $5,000 · Science & Tech
Other$701,420International$174,400Religion$109,900Human Services$96,300Youth Development$72,400Philanthropy$47,000Science & Tech$29,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAITI OUTREACH INC: $88,250 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $56,250 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetTUTAPONA INC: $52,450 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC: $38,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dwelling Place: $30,100 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $27,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLaunch Ministry: $25,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH: $24,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $21,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE OLD THINGS NEW INC: $20,950 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetHOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $18,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRIVER FALLS PREGNANCY HELPLINE: $18,020 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER EUROPE MISSION: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe New Horizons Foundation Inc: $16,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSalt Ventures NFP: $16,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLife Spring: $16,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetFREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION: $15,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVOYAGEUR FOUNDATION INC: $13,700 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCHESTERTON ACADEMY: $13,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSOLE HOPE INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSURPASSING GRACE: $8,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GATHERING: $6,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetro Womens Center: $5,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF COLORADO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTVIEW BOYS HOME INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlacier Peak Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTraining Leaders International: $4,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIO Frontiers: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE MINNESOTA: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY MULTIPLIED AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A LOVE STORY: $4,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetIntegra Ventures Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAVIVO: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETTLED INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSteve Rummler Hope Network: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOMWORKS INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PILGRIM CENTER FOR RECONCILIATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAFE OF LIFE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJoy To The World Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HAITI OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds TANDEM FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TUTAPONA INC ↗
  • Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Launch Ministry ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CREATION RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS TO HOPE AFRICA ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE OLD THINGS NEW INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds RIVER FALLS PREGNANCY HELPLINE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Salt Ventures NFP ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds Life Spring ↗
  • Who funds FREE WHEELCHAIR MISSION ↗
  • Who funds VOYAGEUR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SOLE HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗

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 Found…Thrivent Charitable I…Saint Paul & Minnesot…John W Mooty Foundati…Catholic Community Fo…Christian Community F…The Richard M Schulze…CommunitygivingThe Grace Upon Grace …The K FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN30.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · John W Mooty Foundation Trust · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Communitygiving · The Grace Upon Grace Mooty Family Foundation · The K Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Getsch Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Getsch Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 119 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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