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Pachel 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $33,000 |
| DULUTH PLAYHOUSE | $16,383 |
| MINNEAPOLIS HOC INC | $10,000 |
| THE COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA | $7,000 |
| MATINEE MUSICALE INC | $6,500 |
| GREAT LAKES AQUARIUM | $5,000 |
| DENFELD HIGH SCHOOL SPEECH TEAM | $3,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF DULUTH | $3,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| THE DEPOT FOUNDATION | $2,420 |
| WOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THIRD COAST CHAMBER COLLECTIVE | $2,000 |
| BOREALIS CHAMBER ARTISTS | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- LSLAKE SUPERIOR CENTER3× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +55%
- DODAMIANO OF DULUTH INC6× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +330%
- ZCZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY2× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- FRFM Rotary Foundationone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -73%
- CUCHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +32%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue -12%
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.
Recognize, validate and support the creation of art in all forms and encourage participation and appreciation for arts in duluth, mn
Duluth community school collaborative promotes wellbeing and success for duluth public schools students and families by co-creating, celebrating, and mobilizing for equitable educational experiences.
A performing arts circus school dedicated to inspiring artistry and confidence.
The mission of the university nursery school is to prepare the children in our community for a successful and fulfilling future throughout their education and beyond. we strive daily to provide loving care, as well as high quality and…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
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…
Promote health through skiing
We bring young people together for group learning adventures in wilderness and urban settings in minnesota. we invite teens and young adults to identify, practice and grow leadership skills through shared experiences. we also offer the…
Lundstrum's mission is to cultivate a love and knowledge of the performing arts so that young people will discover their unique gifts, develop their depth of character and imagine new possibilities for their lives, ensuring access to all…
To prepare children to embrace life, learning, and community with hope, skill, understanding and creativity. we are committed to the quaker values of peace, justice, simplicity and integrity.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Duluth Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Depot Foundation. 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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 85 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
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 DULUTH SUPERIOR SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FM Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds UDAC INC ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ST SCHOLASTICA INC ↗
- Who funds ZEITGEIST CENTER FOR ARTS AND COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds The Matinee Musicale Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES UNITED IN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HARTLEY NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MANY RIVERS MONTESSORI ↗
- Who funds DULUTH AREA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOYS' CLUB OF DULUTH ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF THE NORTH ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM FOR AID TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds CHESTER BOWL IMPROVEMENT CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL ALLIES HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ESSENTIA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Minnesota Opera ↗
- Who funds THE HILLS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
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: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Northland Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way · Arrowhead Regional Arts Council · Saint Paul & Minnesota 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 Pachel 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.
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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