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Norman C Skalicky Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Human Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$760kEducation$600kFood & Nutrition$550kEnvironment$250kYouth Development$105kHousing & Shelter$80kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $600k
  • $250k+6 grants · $1.9M
$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE$425,000
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$350,000
COMMUNITYGIVING$340,000
CENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR$250,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$250,000
ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$250,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA$200,000
FAMILY PATHWAYS$100,000
ST CLOUD TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE$100,000
SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY$75,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF$75,000
HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA$50,000
SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER$10,000
ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF$10,000
NORTH BRANCH AREA EDUCATION$5,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $575k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $100k → 5%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE: $425k → 11%FAMILY PATHWAYS: $50k → 5%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.

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.5M
$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

78%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Food & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $320k · revenue +12%
  • FP
    Family Pathways
    2× · 2024–2025 · $150k · revenue +2%
  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $125k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF THE
    one grant, 2024 · $185k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY - ST CLOUD
    one grant, 2024 · $120k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL
    one grant, 2024 · $80k

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
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

2
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

3
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

5
Minnesota State College Southeast Foundation

Minnesota state college southeast foundation assists the college in achieving excellence in technical education for employment by developing financial and community resources for students, employers, and communities within our service area.

Education
6
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…

7
Open Your Heart to the Hungry and Homeless

Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…

8
The Good Acre

We connect and strengthen farmers, food makers, and communities through good food. the good acre is the largest nonprofit food hub in minnesota. we play a critical role in creating market access for farmers in our region. for 2023, with…

Food & Nutrition
9
Minnesota Grocers Association

The minnesota grocers association advances the common interest of those engaged in all aspects of the food industry of mn as a leadership resource. the mga encourages and sponsors educational seminars, conventions and fosters the exchange…

10
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
11
Tc Food Justice

Tc food justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in minneapolis, mn. since march 2016 we have been working with co-ops, grocery stores, and farmers markets to redistribute their unsellable foods to local hunger relief…

Food & Nutrition
12
Central Minnesota Vegetable Growers Assn

The CMVGA is dedicated to the success of its farmers markets, the future of small farms and agriculture, and most importantly, providing quality to customers. We are proud to offer the largest selection of products of any farmers market in…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota and the most unlike its peers is St Joseph Community Food Shelf. 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

14 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. 14 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
6/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $320,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTACENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR — $250,000 · OtherCENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FORSALVATION ARMY — $250,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF THE — $185,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF THEFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $130,000 · OtherFOND DU LAC TRIBAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGESAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY — $125,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITYSALVATION ARMY - ST CLOUD — $120,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - ST CLOUDHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CENTRAL — $80,000 · Other+5 more — $60,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF ST CLOUD — $425,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES…Family Pathways — $150,000 · Human ServicesFamily PathwaysSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $450,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HE…HUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA — $50,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER SOLUTIONS …FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $30,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD GROUP MINNES…ST JOSEPH COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITYGIVING — $440,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITYGIVIN…ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $325,000 · EducationST CLOUD S…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentWOMEN ANGLERS OF MINNESOTA INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,520,000Human Services$575,000Food & Nutrition$550,000Philanthropy$440,000Education$330,000Youth Development$75,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $450,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITYGIVING — $440,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $325,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA — $320,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFamily Pathways — $150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHUNGER SOLUTIONS MINNESOTA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MN — $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST JOSEPH COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF — $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetWOMEN ANGLERS OF MINNESOTA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetNORTH BRANCH AREA EDUCATION FOUNDAT — $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% 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.

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.

CommunitygivingMN21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communitygiving · Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Rick and Helga Bauerly Foundation · Granite Partners Foundation of Minnesota Inc · Morgan Family Foundation · Initiative Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Central Mn Noon Optimist Club Inc · The Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union 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 Norman C Skalicky Charitable Trust 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 · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 24 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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