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Norman C Skalicky Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THE SALVATION ARMY$250,000
ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$250,000
CENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR$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
WOMEN ANGLERS OF MINNESOTA$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 (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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

+2%
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
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

  • 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
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
Second Harvest North Central Food Bank

Engaging the community to end hunger

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2
Second Harvest Northland

End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota; 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 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. 14 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $320,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTASALVATION ARMY: $250,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYCENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FOR: $250,000 · OtherCENTRAL MINNESOTA HABITAT FORCATHOLIC 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $450,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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
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.

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.

CommunitygivingOtto Bremer TrustXcel Energy FoundationRick and Helga Bauerl…Granite Partners Foun…Morgan Family Foundat…Initiative FoundationLand O'Lakes Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Central Mn Noon Optim…The Affinity Plus Fed…
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

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 Norman C Skalicky Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman C Skalicky Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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.

    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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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