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Michael V & Ann C Ciresi Foundation at a glance

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Michael V & Ann C Ciresi 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.

$700k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.9MHuman Services$351kReligion$180kHealth$170kCrime & Legal$133kArts & Culture$108kPhilanthropy$103kInternational$89kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $545k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST THOMAS ACADEMY$275,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$270,000
THE BASILICA OF SAINT MARY$100,000
NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE$25,000
ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSP FDN$25,000
FUND FOR LEGAL AID$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $67k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $67k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $66k → 14%AMHERST WILDER FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%AMHERST WILDER FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $10k → 14%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $5k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 26 repeat orgs$322k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$3.8M
$217k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+23%

Still filing today

42%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalHealthOther
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 St Thomas
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +38%
  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PEACE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $210k · revenue +76%
  • NA
    NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE
    5× · 2019–2024 · $120k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • RC
    RISEN CHRIST SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • MB
    MERCY BEYOND BORDERSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +109%
  • CT
    CHILDREN'S THEATER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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 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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2
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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3
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…

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4
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
5
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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6
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
9
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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10
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
11
Minnesota Private College Council Inc

The minnesota private college council serves the shared needs of its member colleges and advocates for public policy that meets the educational needs of students, enhances private higher education, and strengthens minnesota's economic and…

Education
12
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. 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

30 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. 30 of the 55 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)
28/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST THOMAS ACADEMY: $925,000 · OtherST THOMAS ACADEMYASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL: $155,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOLTHE BASILICA OF SAINT MARY: $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAY: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $100,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITALS & CLINICS OF MN FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Other+22 more: $324,000 · Other+22 moreUniversity of St Thomas: $1,467,500 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas+6 more: $70,500 · EducationOUR LADY OF PEACE: $210,000 · Human ServicesAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $120,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $3,000 · Crime & LegalMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMinnPost: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMERCY BEYOND BORDERS: $25,000 · InternationalBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $1,250 · InternationalHUNTERS HARVEST: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health
Other$2,069,000Education$1,538,000Human Services$260,000Crime & Legal$128,000Arts & Culture$65,000International$26,250Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$5,000

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 budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $1,467,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $210,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $120,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC: $34,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMERCY BEYOND BORDERS: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLOSE GAPS BY 5: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTERS HARVEST: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAGE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnPost: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR STATE COURTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOOKS FOR AFRICA INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERSET SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
  • Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MERCY BEYOND BORDERS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE) ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds CLOSE GAPS BY 5 ↗
  • Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FARM SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HUNTERS HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID ↗

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…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Catholic Community Fo…Otto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…Lerner FoundationCollier Community Fou…Ch Robinson Worldwide…United Way WorldwideThe US Charitable Gif…St Agnes Catholic Edu…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN32.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Lerner Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The US Charitable Gift Trust · St Agnes Catholic Education 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 Michael V & Ann C Ciresi Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael V & Ann C Ciresi Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 Michael V & Ann C Ciresi Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Michael V & Ann C Ciresi 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 55 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.

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