· Private foundation
Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k82 grants · $302k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $579k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $451k
- $250k+1 grant · $274k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION | $274,000 |
| CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $125,000 |
| UNITED WAY - GREATER TWIN CITIES | $100,000 |
| CHILDRENS MINNESOTA HOSPITAL | $51,000 |
| YESHIVA OF MINNEAPOLIS | $50,000 |
| J-HAP | $43,500 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH LIVING LEGACY | $40,000 |
| KENESSETH ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $36,000 |
| HEILICHER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $34,000 |
| UNITED WAY - ST CLOUD | $32,000 |
| CHABAD U OF M | $26,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| LIVING LEGACY-MINNEAPOLIS CHABAD | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% 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 +18% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
126 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 23 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k 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
- HCHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $142k · revenue +23%
- JIJ-HAP INC4× · 2021–2025 · $116k · revenue +27%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- GTGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAYone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -15%
- SCSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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…
The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.
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…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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…
Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Chevras Shabbos Kodesh Podcast Fellowship. 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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
168 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. 168 of the 281 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds J-HAP INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTANS AGAINST TERRORISM ↗
- Who funds United Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds SHA ARIM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SPENCER ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Minneapolis Jewish Federation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Jay and Rose Phillips Family Foundation of Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · Bame Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The Walser 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 Mike & Linda Fiterman 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% 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.
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