· Private foundation
Jerome J & Ursula Choromanski Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 59% of JEROME J & URSULA CHOROMANSKI FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST THERESE FOUNDATION | $156,415 |
| BASILICA LANDMARK | $50,000 |
| ST OLAF CHURCH | $30,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $25,000 |
| HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $25,000 |
| NAMI | $15,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| TRUE FRIENDS | $15,000 |
| ASCENSION CHURCH AND SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ANNUNCIATION SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NORTHWEST MN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE CHURCH OF ST BONIFACE | $10,000 |
| MICROGRANTS | $10,000 |
| NATIVITY OF MARY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| LUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 10 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- TFTRUE FRIENDS9× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +14%
- TBTHE BASILICA LANDMARK9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +364%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- AALIGHTone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%
- STST THOMAS THE APOSTLEone grant, 2023 · $15k
- VVMCone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Engaging the community to end hunger
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, community, and hope. through advocacy, collaboration, and leadership, hfh-mn advances the work of minnesota's habitat for humanity affiliates to create and preserve affordable…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Therese and the most unlike its peers is The Home for Life Foundation Joseph S Micallef. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 104 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
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 SAINT THERESE ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds THE BASILICA LANDMARK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Missions Inc Programs ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds EDEN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CINDY'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THIS OLD HORSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe) · Target Foundation · The K Foundation
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 Jerome J & Ursula Choromanski Family 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.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 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.