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Poehlerstremel Char Tr

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.

$82k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$245kEnvironment$142kHealth$107kEducation$98kYouth Development$66kAnimals$63kHuman Services$55kHousing & Shelter$39kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEAL THE OCEAN$9,000
LIVING WELL DISABILITY SERVICES$9,000
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO$8,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIES$8,000
CAN DO CANINES$8,000
COMPAS INC$7,000
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM$5,000
PARK SQUARE THEATRE$5,000
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH TWIN CITIES$5,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE$5,000
TPT$5,000
EMMA NORTON SERVICES$3,000
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JONES-HARRISON RESIDENCE: $5k → 11%BRIDGING HEARTS: $2k → 5%OUR LADY OF PEACE: $5k → 14%MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUN: $5k → 14%MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUN: $5k → 14%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$802k · 28 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$802k
$81k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+7%

Still filing today

64%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • MP
    MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +5%
  • HT
    HEAL THE OCEAN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $82k · revenue +119%
  • CD
    CAN DO CANINES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • CI
    Channel Islands Restoration
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -56%
  • HF
    HOME FOR LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AI
    ACCESSABILITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +9%
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 Institute for Talented Youth

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.

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3
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
4
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement
5
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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6
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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7
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
8
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
9
Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota

Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…

Employment
10
Touchstone Mental Health

Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…

Human Services
11
Minnesota Children's Museum

Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children…

Arts & Culture
12
Circus of the Star

A performing arts circus school dedicated to inspiring artistry and confidence.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is True Friends; the most unlike its peers is Boys Girls Club. 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

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
20/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAN DO CANINES: $58,500 · OtherCAN DO CANINESFOOTHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $45,000 · OtherFOOTHILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherPEOPLE INCORPORATEDLiving Well Disability Services: $33,000 · OtherLiving Well Disability ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPARK SQUARE THEATRE: $29,000 · OtherPARK SQUARE THEATREGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $20,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF: $20,000 · OtherDODGE NATURE CENTER AND PRESCHOOL: $18,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $21,000 · OtherTRUE FRIENDS: $19,000 · Other+13 more: $121,000 · Other+13 moreMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $93,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AME…COMPAS INC: $46,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPAS INCMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIE…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVIS…SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $16,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOT…HEAL THE OCEAN INC: $82,000 · EnvironmentHEAL THE OCEA…Channel Islands Restoration: $17,000 · EnvironmentChannel Islan…LIVING DESERT THE: $8,000 · EnvironmentLIVING DESERT…+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $25,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin Cities: $21,000 · EducationKIPP Minnesota: $5,000 · EducationBEST ACADEMY INC: $2,000 · EducationEMMA NORTON SERVICES: $23,500 · Housing & ShelterMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $22,000 · HealthMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesOUR LADY OF PEACE: $5,000 · Human ServicesJONES-HARRISON RESIDENCE: $5,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGING HEARTS INC: $2,000 · Human Services
Other$454,500Arts & Culture$211,000Environment$109,000Education$53,000Housing & Shelter$23,500Health$22,000Human Services$22,000

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 budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $93,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE OCEAN INC: $82,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $58,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOMPAS INC: $46,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPEOPLE INCORPORATED: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Well Disability Services: $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SQUARE THEATRE: $29,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA NORTON SERVICES: $23,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUE FRIENDS: $19,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChannel Islands Restoration: $17,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACCESSABILITY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS GIRLS CLUB: $7,500 over 1y, 53% of budgetOUR LADY OF PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP Minnesota: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJONES-HARRISON RESIDENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST ACADEMY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER BEND NATURE CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE OCEAN INC ↗
  • Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
  • Who funds COMPAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Living Well Disability Services ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PARK SQUARE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds EMMA NORTON SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MAJESTIC HILLS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER SANTA BARBARA ↗
  • Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
  • Who funds Channel Islands Restoration ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACCESSABILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
  • Who funds KIPP Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds JONES-HARRISON RESIDENCE ↗

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…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Hardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationOtto Bremer TrustMightycause Charitabl…The Richard M Schulze…The Walser FoundationFred C and Katherine …Xcel Energy FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Minnesota Community F…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN28.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minnesota Community 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 Poehlerstremel Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Poehlerstremel Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    11report 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 43 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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