· Private foundation
Robert & Helen Remick Ch Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $522k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION | $198,600 |
| WINDOM AREA SCHOOLS | $190,317 |
| SOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER | $70,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL | $63,053 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,000 |
| WESTBROOK WALNUT GROVE SCHOOL | $40,927 |
| PRAIRIE ECOLOGY BUS CENTER | $32,000 |
| DES MOINES HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES | $28,250 |
| WESTBROOK AREA VOLUNTEERS | $25,000 |
| WINDOM STATE THEATER | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $15,262 |
| JACKSON COUNTY LIBRARY | $12,500 |
| JACKSON CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $8,000 |
| WILDER PAGEANT COMMITTEE INC | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,845 |
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 (FY20–22, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +57% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- SCSOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +75%
- WCWILD COMPASS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION5× · 2020–2024 · $143k · revenue +73%
- WPWILDER PAGEANT COMMITTEE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- JCJACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -36% · 65% of their budget
- JCJACKSON COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $44k
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +62%
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.
To preserve the history of rock county, minnesota
The mission of the Waseca County Historical Society is to collect, preserve, interpret and disseminate the history of Waseca County and its citizens; and to create excitement and interest in that past.
To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.
County Historical Society - Maintain and develop historical museums, historical sites and materials within Washington County, Minnesota
Watonwan couty historical societys primary exemp purpose is to share history, artifacts, knowledge and memories and to preserve them for many years to come.
To provide a histroical museum for the pipestone county, minnesota region
To collect, catalog, preserve, display, and interpret relevant historical artifacts, and to provide information to visitors of the Wheels Across the Prairie Museum in Tracy, MN.
To provide the annual, free winneshiek county fair, to advance the interests of animal husbandry, agriculture, horticulture & floriculture, to improve & encourage breeding of fine stock, and to stimulate the study of arts & sciences,…
To preserve items of past generations for the teaching of current and future generations.
To represent historical societies, museums, and research centers in Northwest Minnesota.
Together with windom area health, our mission is to promote exceptional quality care and wellbeing for rural communities in southwest minnesota.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cottonwood County Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jackson County Agricultural Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 33. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 60 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 SOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD COMPASS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILDER PAGEANT COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds The Westbrook Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Jackson Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds WINDOM BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINDOM AREA SHARING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOM EDUCATIONAL HONOR LOANS INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds JACKSON FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION ↗
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: Southwest Initiative Foundation · Jackson Health Care Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Frank J Zaher Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Robert & Helen Remick Ch 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.