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Miner Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Crime & Legal$500kEducation$377kFood & Nutrition$67kReligion$48kHuman Services$35kYouth Development$31kArts & Culture$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k63 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$17,500
WATSEKA FOOD PANTRY$10,000
MILFORD CHRISTIAN CHURCH$5,000
CRESCENT CITY UNITED METHODIST$4,000
FOOD FROM THE HEART$2,500
WATSEKA FAMILY FESTIVAL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
FORD IROQ 4-H FOUNDATION$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYS TOWN: $31 → 12%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $9 → 11%BABY FOLD: $2k → 11%BOYS TOWN: $25 → 12%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $5 → 11%THE BABY FOLD: $2k → 11%BOYS TOWN: $21 → 12%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $3 → 11%BABY FOLD: $2k → 11%BOYS TOWN: $20 → 12%THE BABY FOLD: $2k → 11%BOYS TOWN: $15 → 12%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $28 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $6 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $5 → 9%Iroquois County Ramp Builders: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$411k · 156 repeat orgs$908k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

156 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 135 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

156
293

Total granted

$411k
$856k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+25%

Still filing today

20%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationOther

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

  • TB
    THE BABY FOLD
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +44%
  • DF
    DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +72%
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD MANOR INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $600 · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • IC
    IROQ CO SHERIFF DEPT
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • CY
    CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -68%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
2
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
3
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
4
Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals
5
Four Paws International Inc

Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.

Animals
6
North Shore Animal League America Inc

Since 1944, the north shore animal league america's mission has been to save the lives of pets through adoption, rescue, education, medical care, spay/neuter and advocacy.

Animals
7
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
8
Humane Farm Animal Care

Every farmer and rancher participating in the Certified Humane program had to modify their operations to meet the Animal Care Standards and be certified. Schedule O

Animals
9
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
10
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
11
World Animal Protection

World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…

Animals
12
Global Animal Partnership
Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Iroquois County Ramp Builders Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDevelopmental Disabilities …Land Conservation Organizat…Public University Foundatio…Food Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsFallen First Responder Supp…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Christian Missionary Organi…Community Arts OrganizationsFaith-Based Senior LivingYouth Sports Booster Organi…Animal Rescue and AdoptionChild and Family Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 49 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%2%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr15%9%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr22%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%12%<5yr13%29%5–10yr18%27%10–20yr15%1%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr22%16%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
12%
8,891/72,297

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.

04the grantee network

55 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 493 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
36/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IROQ CO SHERIFF DEPT — $500,000 · OtherIROQ CO SHERIFF DEPTIndividual grant recipient — $67,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+190 more — $548,728 · Other+190 moreCROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOUNTRY THEATRE WORKSHOP — $15,000 · Arts & CultureWATSEKA FAMILY FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureIROQUOIS COUNTY RAMP BUILDERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE BABY FOLD — $8,000 · Human ServicesIroquois County Animal Rescue — $3,000 · AnimalsDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $1,000 · AnimalsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,116,228Youth Development$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000Human Services$18,000Animals$4,000Recreation & Sports$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCOUNTRY THEATRE WORKSHOP — $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE BABY FOLD — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetILLINI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWATSEKA FAMILY FESTIVAL INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetIroquois County Animal Rescue — $3,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC
  • Who funds COUNTRY THEATRE WORKSHOP
  • Who funds IROQUOIS COUNTY RAMP BUILDERS INC
  • Who funds THE BABY FOLD
  • Who funds ILLINI CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds WATSEKA FAMILY FESTIVAL INC

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.

Iroquois Federal Foundation IncIL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Mary Helen Roberts Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Paul & Norma Schaumburg Charitable · Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Miner Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Feed the Children Inc1% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 493 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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