· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Waconia GatherGrow Food Shelf | $1,700 |
| Waconia School District 110 | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,300 |
| Waconia School Dist Band Boosters | $900 |
| Waconia Sch Dis 110 Choir Boosters | $850 |
| Waconia Faith Lutheran Church | $800 |
| Waconia School District 110 | $800 |
| Sharinga and Caring Hands | $700 |
| Feed My Starving Children | $700 |
| Waconia West Carver Rotary | $700 |
| Minnesot Teen Challenge | $600 |
| Hope Internatinal | $600 |
| Southern Valley Alliance | $500 |
| Waconia Faith Lutheraan Church | $500 |
| Mavarvian Care Center | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Retel Foundation Charitable Tr’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against -55% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWACONIA UNITED FOOD SHELF4× · 2019–2022 · $6k · revenue +71%
- SASHARING AND CARING HANDS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +22%
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SDSchool District 110one grant, 2020 · $2k
- SDSch District 110 Scholarship Fundone grant, 2023 · $2k
- SDSchool District 110 Scholarshipone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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.
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Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
The mission of the Winona Health Foundation is to gather, steward, and distribute resources needed to support and advance the mission of Winona Health and its affiliates.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
In the spirit of christ's love, auburn homes and services enriches the lives of those we serve through (w)holistic care and ministry strengthened by community relationships.
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
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As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.
To provide healthcare services to the community served by ridgeview medical center.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WACONIA UNITED FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds WACONIA WEST CARVER ROTARY ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VALLEY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 110 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN CARE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Retel Foundation Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Retel Foundation Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
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