Skip to content
Horst Rechelbacher Foundation at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Horst Rechelbacher Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MEducation$936kArts & Culture$30kFood & Nutrition$25kPhilanthropy$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kPublic Benefit$15kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
STANDING CEDARS COMMUNITY LAND CONSERVANCY$5,000
ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION$5,000
STEGER CENTER$2,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $10k → 8%POLLINATOR FRIENDLY ALLIANCE: $5k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $132k → 11%STEGER CENTER: $2k → 14%BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: $80k → 11%FRIENDS OF IMAGINE1DAY INC: $5k → 14%ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $14k → 5%CITY OF OSCEOLA: $15k → 9%WISCONSIN FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%NORTHWEST PASSAGE LIMITED: $1k → 12%NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $110k → 11%STEGER CENTER: $2k → 14%BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: $75k → 11%ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%VILLAGE OF OSCEOLA: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $105k → 11%STEGER CENTER: $2k → 14%BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: $55k → 11%ST CROIX VALLEY FOOD BANK: $4k → 5%CITY OF OSCEOLA: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $103k → 11%GOOD ACRE: $13k → 14%BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: $50k → 11%ST CROIX VALLEY FOOD BANK: $2k → 5%VILLAGE OF OSCEOLA: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $80k → 11%BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: $50k → 11%STANDING CEDARS COMMUNITY LAND CONSERVANCY: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $75k → 11%OPEN CUPBOARD: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $22k → 11%WILD RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $2k → 9%MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $10k → 11%OSCEOLA MAINSTREET PROGRAM INC: $2k → 9%MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $10k → 11%OPEN CUPBOARD: $2k → 9%MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $10k → 11%OSCEOLA MAINSTREET PROGRAM INC: $1k → 9%CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $225k → 11%OSCEOLA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $1k → 9%MINNESOTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - PALLIATIVE CARE: $225k → 11%CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $225k → 11%MINNESOTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - PALLIATIVE CARE: $225k → 11%MINNESOTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - PALLIATIVE CARE: $225k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $25k → 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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 12 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$2.3M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+28%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $626k · revenue +105%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +2%
  • BC
    BEAUTY CHANGES LIVES
    4× · 2019–2022 · $310k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GOOD ACRE
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -4%
  • PF
    POLLINATOR FRIENDLY ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +106%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF IMAGINE1DAY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
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…

—
2
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

—
3
Mill City Farmers Market Inc

Mission: to inspire and nurture a healthy community by building a local, sustainable, and organic food economy in a vibrant experiential marketplace.vision: to be a nationally recognized marketplace model that connects, educates, and…

—
4
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
5
Minnesota Agri-Growth Council Inc

The mission of the minnesota agri-growth council is to advocate for minnesota's food and agriculture industry by serving as a unified voice and promoting relationships with allied industries.

—
6
Mill City Farmers Market Charitable Fund

Mission: to support a healthier community through partnerships, educational programming, and support for organic farmers and local food producers.vision: to grow a just, local, sustainable food system by sharing resources and collaborating…

Arts & Culture
7
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…

—
8
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

—
9
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.

Food & Nutrition
10
Area Partnership for Economic Expansion

Promote and develop economic expansion in duluth and northeastern mn and northwestern wisconsin. the organization leads regional research efforts related to human resources, and emerging industries to inform business development and…

Community Improvement
11
Fondy Food Center Inc

He fondy food center connects greater milwaukee to local, fresh food- from farm to market to table - so that children learn better, adults live healthier, and communities celebrate cultural food traditions.

Food & Nutrition
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Osceola Main Street Program. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $625,875 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONBEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: $310,000 · EducationBEAUTY CHANGES LIVES+2 more: $6,500 · EducationMINNESOTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - PALLIATIVE CARE: $675,000 · OtherMINNESOTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - PALLI…CITY OF OSCEOLA: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · Other+5 more: $29,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $525,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FO…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GOOD ACRE: $12,500 · Food & NutritionST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC: $5,500 · Food & NutritionTHE OPEN CUPBOARD: $5,000 · Food & NutritionST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $19,000 · PhilanthropyPOLLINATOR FRIENDLY ALLIANCE INC: $5,185 · EnvironmentStanding Cedars Community Land Conservancy Inc: $5,000 · EnvironmentOSCEOLA MAIN STREET PROGRAM: $2,700 · Community Improvement
Education$942,375Other$764,500Health$526,000Arts & Culture$30,000Food & Nutrition$23,000Philanthropy$19,000Environment$10,185Community Improvement$2,700

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $625,875 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $525,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetBEAUTY CHANGES LIVES: $310,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOOD ACRE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY FOODBANK INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPOLLINATOR FRIENDLY ALLIANCE INC: $5,185 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetStanding Cedars Community Land Conservancy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE OPEN CUPBOARD: $5,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF IMAGINE1DAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOSCEOLA MAIN STREET PROGRAM: $2,700 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWISCONSIN FARMERS UNION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST PASSAGE LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOSCEOLA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN: $1,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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.

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.

St Croix Valley Found…Fred C and Katherine …Mightycause Charitabl…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
St Croix Valley FoundationWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Croix Valley Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Horst Rechelbacher Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Horst Rechelbacher Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Horst Rechelbacher Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Horst Rechelbacher Foundation 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Horst Rechelbacher’s filings →

    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