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Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation at a glance

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Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.7M
Granted FY2026still arriving
120
Grants FY2026still arriving
15
States reached
$308k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$4.5MReligion$1.4MEducation$941kCommunity Improvement$756kHealth$717kHuman Services$492kYouth Development$326kHousing & Shelter$181kOther$0
02FY2026 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k75 grants · $267k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $684k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $419k
  • $250k+1 grant · $308k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION$307,800
UNITED WAY - GREATER TWIN CITIES$140,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$100,000
CAN DO CANINES$75,000
MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$54,000
YESHIVA OF MINNEAPOLIS$50,000
UNITED WAY - ST CLOUD$45,000
CHABAD U OF M$36,000
CHILDRENS MINNESOTA HOSPITAL$34,000
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
LIVING LEGACY-MINNEAPOLIS CHABAD$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE$25,000
INSTITURE FOR BLACK SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL$25,000
MINNESOTANS AGAINST TERRORISM$25,000
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 (FY21–26, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE FREE BOOK BUGGIE: $1k → 6%GOSHEN VALLEY BOYS RANCH: $500 → 6%COBB STREET MINISTRIES: $5k → 8%HOSPICE OF THE RED RIVER VALLEY: $1k → 12%TWIN CITIES RETROUVAILLE: $1k → 6%ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $750 → 7%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%SISTERS RISING WORLDWIDE: $10k → 14%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $2k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION TWIN CITIES: $1k → 14%THINK SMALL: $8k → 14%THINK SMALL: $5k → 14%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $25k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $20k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS: $10k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $2k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $2k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $2k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $2k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $2k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $8k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $6k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $5k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $4k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $3k → 11%SHARING & CARING HANDS: $3k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $25k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $15k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $15k → 11%GLOBAL VILLAGE CONNECT: $2k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $6k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $1k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $1k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $1k → 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

WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
MS
AL
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.5M · 145 repeat orgs$758k to everyone else

145 repeat relationships: 103 still active in FY2026, 42 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

145
129

Total granted

$7.5M
$667k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+9%

Still filing today

54%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • HC
    HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $162k · revenue +28%
  • JI
    J-HAP INC
    5× · 2021–2026 · $134k · revenue +27%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS
    6× · 2021–2026 · $100k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CH
    CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2025 · $125k
  • SC
    SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • GT
    GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +6%
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
Minnesota Jewish Community Center Foundation

The minnesota jcc foundation's sole purpose is to support the minnesota jcc.

Human Services
3
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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4
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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5
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
6
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
7
Avivo

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

Human Services
8
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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9
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
10
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
11
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
12
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ampersand Families; 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.
04the grantee network

175 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 175 of the 295 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
166/175
Grantees still filing
108/175
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY - GREATER TWIN CITIES: $810,000 · OtherUNITED WAY - GREATER TWIN CITIESCITY OF HOPE: $600,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPECOMMUNITY HEALTH CHARITIES MINNESOTA: $439,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH CHARITIES MINNESOTAYESHIVA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $272,000 · OtherMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $241,000 · OtherMINNESOTA HILLEL: $238,600 · OtherKENESSETH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE: $228,000 · Other+131 more: $3,284,579 · Other+131 moreMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $3,351,800 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION+17 more: $445,050 · Philanthropy+17 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $496,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…University of St Thomas: $225,000 · EducationUniversity…MINNESOTANS AGAINST TERRORISM: $118,000 · EducationMINNESOTAN…SHA ARIM INC: $86,500 · EducationSHA ARIM I…+11 more: $133,550 · Education+11 moreJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $27,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $22,500 · Human ServicesThink Small: $12,500 · Human ServicesSisters Rising Worldwide: $10,000 · Human Services+10 more: $44,400 · Human ServicesHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $162,000 · Recreation & SportsSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $44,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $40,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $30,800 · InternationalWORLD VISION INC: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · International+2 more: $7,200 · InternationalFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsPACER CENTER INC: $17,700 · Civil RightsSCRAP RACISM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,400 · Civil Rights+1 more: $1,800 · Civil Rights
Other$6,113,179Philanthropy$3,796,850Education$1,059,050Human Services$271,900Recreation & Sports$162,000International$150,000Civil Rights$134,900

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $3,351,800 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $496,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $241,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL: $238,600 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC: $162,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetJ-HAP INC: $133,500 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetMINNESOTANS AGAINST TERRORISM: $118,000 over 6y, 38% of budgetUnited Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetSECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHA ARIM INC: $86,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $84,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SPENCER: $50,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetVALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $44,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHIAS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS PARK EMERGENCY PROGRAM INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $38,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $30,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TARRANT COUNTY: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Inc: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $26,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF VIRGINIA: $24,000 over 6y, 61% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES INC: $23,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA FFA FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMinneapolis Recreation Development Inc Love One Another: $21,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBolder Options: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA STATE COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMAROON AND GOLD RISING: $20,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $17,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $16,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $15,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HILLEL ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds J-HAP INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTANS AGAINST TERRORISM ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Northeast Mississippi Inc ↗
  • Who funds SECURE COMMUNITY NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
  • Who funds SHA ARIM INC ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FRONTIERS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SPENCER ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL ↗

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…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Minneapolis Jewish Fe…The Richard M Schulze…Ch Robinson Worldwide…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Jay and Rose Phil…Xcel Energy FoundationBame FoundationMargaret a Cargill Fo…The Walser Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN60.3× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Mike & Linda Fiterman Family 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 295 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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