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Retel Foundation Charitable 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$700
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,700
Organizations funded a year
17 to 19
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$271k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Retel Foundation Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$15k6%
FY202317$11k35%
FY202217$12k0%
FY202118$14k50%
FY202019$13k63%
FY201917$12kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$20kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$14kHuman Services$10kReligion$6kPhilanthropy$5kInternational$4kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Waconia United Food Shelf$6,40040%
Waconia West Carver Rotary$4,85072%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$3,75070%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$3,75070%
Hope International$3,35070%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$2,75060%
Southern Valley Alliance$2,30060%
Ridgeview Foundation$2,10020%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,75050%
Salvation Army$1,3002n/a
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All grantees of Retel Foundation Charitable Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Waconia United Food Shelf$6,40040%
Waconia West Carver Rotary$4,85072%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc$3,75070%
Feed My Starving Children Inc$3,75070%
Hope International$3,35070%
Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc$2,75060%
Southern Valley Alliance$2,30060%
Ridgeview Foundation$2,10020%
American Cancer Society Inc$1,75050%
Salvation Army$1,3002n/a
School District No 110 Foundation$8001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$50020%
Moravian Care Foundation$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Retel Foundation Charitable Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWaconia United Food Shelf: $6,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWaconia West Carver Rotary: $4,850 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSharing and Caring Hands Inc: $3,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFeed My Starving Children Inc: $3,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHope International: $3,350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Valley Alliance: $2,300 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRidgeview Foundation: $2,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMoravian Care Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Retel Foundation Charitable Tr

How much does Retel Foundation Charitable Tr give?
Retel Foundation Charitable Tr reported 19 grants totaling $14,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 19 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Retel Foundation Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Health (19%), Food & Nutrition (18%).
Who are Retel Foundation Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Waconia United Food Shelf ($6k), Waconia West Carver Rotary ($5k), Sharing and Caring Hands Inc ($4k).
Does Retel Foundation Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Retel Foundation Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Retel Foundation Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Retel Foundation Charitable Tr based?
Retel Foundation Charitable Tr is based in MN.

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 45 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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