· Public charity
Lions Club of Chaska
Service to others.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $341,625 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $466,478 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $124,853 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Chaska | $109,365 |
| Chaska River City Days | $38,650 |
| Chaska Baseball Assoc | $27,380 |
| Bountiful BasketChaska | $25,835 |
| Moravian Care Foundation | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| Flags and honor of Minnesota | $11,000 |
| Humanity Alliance | $11,000 |
| St Johns Lutheran Church | $11,000 |
| Love Inc | $10,000 |
| 2BContinued | $10,000 |
| Marias Voice | $10,000 |
| Birdie Bash | $10,000 |
| Southwest Metro Edu Coop-#288 | $8,395 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
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, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HBHAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC6× · 2018–2025 · $171k · revenue +54%
- CLCHASKA LIONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $109k · revenue +978% · 87% of their budget
- SCSCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- CRCHASKA ROTARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -85%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $19k
- OONELOVEYOGAone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…
Crime and communities violence interve
Raise funds for handicap people to participate in sports activities
Casa minnesota's mission is to support and promote court-appointed volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children in minnesota, and to enrich the lives of children in foster care.
To help people in financial poverty with assistance for housing utilities food insecurity and misc.
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 2B Continued and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 41 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 HAWKS BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CHASKA RIVER CITY DAYS ↗
- Who funds CHASKA LIONS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN CARE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHASKA BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FLAGS AND HONOR OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds HIS HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Launch Ministry ↗
- Who funds The Humanity Alliance ↗
- Who funds MS MAIN EVENT ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHASKA ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA PEW FAMILY FOUNDATION DBA MARIA'S VOICE ↗
- Who funds 2B CONTINUED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONELOVEYOGA ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds MD5M LIONS KIDSIGHT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHASKA COMMUNITY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Beyond New Beginnings ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL VIOLENCE CENTER ↗
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: Allina Health System · Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Communitygiving · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Lions Club of Chaska 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.
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.
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