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Jerome J & Ursula Choromanski Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$522k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$156k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$651kPhilanthropy$370kEducation$345kArts & Culture$214kRecreation & Sports$186kHealth$182kHuman Services$164kHousing & Shelter$150kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $81k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
$9,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIVITY OF MARY SCHOOL$10,000
ASCENSION CHURCH AND SCHOOL$10,000
ST PETER CLAVER SCHOOL$10,000
THE CHURCH OF ST BONIFACE$10,000
ST VICTORIA CHURCH - LORD RENEW OUR CHURCH$10,000
AVMF$10,000
ANNUNCIATION SCHOOL$10,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THIS OLD HORSE: $3k → 6%BELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC: $1k → 11%THIS OLD HORSE: $3k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE: $3k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE: $3k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE: $3k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE: $3k → 6%THIS OLD HORSE: $1k → 6%ICA FOOD SHELF: $3k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $5k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $3k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $3k → 11%FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MN: $5k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $10k → 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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
UT
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 57 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
32

Total granted

$2.5M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+27%

Still filing today

44%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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
    TRUE FRIENDS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +14%
  • TB
    THE BASILICA LANDMARK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +364%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $107k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • ST
    ST THOMAS THE APOSTLE
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • A
    ALIGHT
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%
  • Y
    YOUTHLINK
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +4%
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 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…

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2
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
3
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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5
Avivo

Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.

Human Services
6
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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7
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

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.

Health
8
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota Inc

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…

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9
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
10
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
11
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
12
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Therese; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 104 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
38/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRISTO REY: $175,000 · OtherCRISTO REYST OLAF CHURCH: $150,000 · OtherST OLAF CHURCHNAMI: $130,000 · OtherNAMIHOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $90,000 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $80,000 · OtherST PAUL'S MONASTERY: $69,500 · OtherASCENSION CHURCH AND SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherLUNDSTRUM PERFORMING ARTS: $60,000 · Other+73 more: $977,706 · Other+73 moreSAINT THERESE: $228,425 · PhilanthropySAINT THERESEMICROGRANTS: $91,250 · PhilanthropyMICROGRANTS+2 more: $11,000 · PhilanthropyTRUE FRIENDS: $177,000 · Recreation & SportsUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $107,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $19,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationTHE BASILICA LANDMARK: $110,000 · Arts & CultureSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $17,500 · Human ServicesTHIS OLD HORSE INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINK: $10,000 · Human ServicesPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesNo One Left Behind: $10,000 · Human ServicesFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MN: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $7,000 · Human ServicesThe Banyan Foundation: $85,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,797,206Philanthropy$330,675Recreation & Sports$177,000Education$147,500Arts & Culture$110,000Human Services$95,500Community Improvement$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT THERESE: $228,425 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $177,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BASILICA LANDMARK: $110,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $107,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $91,250 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $85,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $56,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN HOUSING: $40,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMissions Inc Programs: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $36,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEDEN PRAIRIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $29,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetEVERY MEAL: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCINDY'S FUND INC: $20,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHIS OLD HORSE INC: $16,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALIGHT: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVEAP Inc: $13,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhyllis Wheatley Community Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTEZ FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ MN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLAGS FOR FORT SNELLING: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAVE MARIA ACADEMY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTEACH FOR CHRIST: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVET CANINE SERVICE PARTNERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA MISSIONS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 HAVEN HOUSING ↗
  • Who funds Missions Inc Programs ↗
  • 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 CINDY'S FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
  • Who funds THIS OLD HORSE 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…Catholic Community Fo…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Otto Bremer TrustCh Robinson Worldwide…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Catholic Schools Cent…Target FoundationThe K Foundation
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN35.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jerome J & Ursula Choromanski Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome J & Ursula Choromanski Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 104 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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