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Robert & Helen Remick Ch Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Robert & Helen Remick Ch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$539k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$137k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$675kHuman Services$491kArts & Culture$469kCommunity Improvement$396kHealth$387kYouth Development$241kEnvironment$143kFood & Nutrition$68kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $335k
$9,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JACKSON COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL$136,736
WINDOM AREA SCHOOLS$122,841
SOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER$75,726
WESTBROOK WALNUT GROVE SCHOOL$33,248
PRAIRIE ECOLOGY BUS CENTER$30,000
WESTBROOK AREA VOLUNTEERS$25,000
MOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$17,905
SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION$15,000
SOUTHWEST MN PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL$10,000
THE WINDOM AREA SHARING CENTER INC$10,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES$9,000
JACKSON COUNTY LIBRARY$9,000
HERON LAKE-OKABENA SCHOOL$8,990
BUSINESS ARTS AND RECREATION CENTER INC$8,284
CITY OF MOUNTAIN LAKE$7,500
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 (FY20–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $9k → 11%WINDOM AREA SHARING CENTER INC: $20k → 13%THE WINDOM AREA SHARING CENTER INC: $10k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 13%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $9k → 13%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 30 repeat orgs$479k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
29

Total granted

$2.8M
$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
0%

Still filing today

27%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther
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

  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $481k · revenue +75%
  • WC
    WILD COMPASS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $173k · revenue +73%
  • WP
    WILDER PAGEANT COMMITTEE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $43k · revenue +242%

Funded once

  • JC
    JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -36% · 65% of their budget
  • JC
    JACKSON COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $44k
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $42k · revenue +62%
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
Rock County Historical Society

To preserve the history of rock county, minnesota

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2
Waseca County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
4
Winona County Historical Society

To collect, preserve, and interpret the history of winona county.

Arts & Culture
5
Washington County Historical Society

County Historical Society - Maintain and develop historical museums, historical sites and materials within Washington County, Minnesota

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6
Wheels Across the Prairie Museum

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.

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7
Western Hennepin County Pioneer Association

To preserve items of past generations for the teaching of current and future generations.

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8
Pipestone County Historical Society

To provide a histroical museum for the pipestone county, minnesota region

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesotas Historic Northwest

To represent historical societies, museums, and research centers in Northwest Minnesota.

Arts & Culture
10
Watonwan County Historical Society

Watonwan couty historical societys primary exemp purpose is to share history, artifacts, knowledge and memories and to preserve them for many years to come.

Arts & Culture
11
Woodbury Days Council

Woodbury days organizations holds a community event once a year called woodbury days where the residents of the community are invited to come together and explore what the community has to offer.

Arts & Culture
12
Southwest Minnesota Pride
Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 65 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINDOM AREA SCHOOLS: $720,863 · OtherWINDOM AREA SCHOOLSJACKSON COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOL: $283,937 · OtherJACKSON COUNTY CENTRAL SCHOOLWILD COMPASS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: $173,000 · OtherWILD COMPASS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATIONWESTBROOK WALNUT GROVE SCHOOL: $161,787 · OtherWESTBROOK WALNUT GROVE SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $126,000 · OtherWINDOM STATE THEATER: $113,000 · OtherBUSINESS ARTS RECREATION CEN: $102,000 · OtherJACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $85,457 · Other+43 more: $677,937 · Other+43 moreSOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER: $481,009 · Civil RightsSOUTHWEST CRISI…SOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $273,600 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST …UNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $42,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED COM…+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementWILDER PAGEANT COMMITTEE INC: $42,675 · Arts & CultureJackson Center for the Arts: $28,000 · Arts & CultureLAURA INGALLS WILDER MUSEUM & TOURIST CENTER: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WINDOM AREA SHARING CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $28,000 · Human ServicesThe Westbrook Education Foundation: $40,000 · EducationMINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationWINDOM BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsBusiness Arts and Recreation Center Inc: $8,284 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,543,981Civil Rights$481,009Community Improvement$320,600Arts & Culture$73,175Human Services$58,000Education$50,000Recreation & Sports$33,284

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 budgetSOUTHWEST CRISIS CENTER: $481,009 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST INITIATIVE FOUNDATION: $273,600 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWILD COMPASS ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: $173,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetWILDER PAGEANT COMMITTEE INC: $42,675 over 4y, 17% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC: $42,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Westbrook Education Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetTHE WINDOM AREA SHARING CENTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetJackson Center for the Arts: $28,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDOM BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetJACKSON FOOD SHELF INC: $11,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJackson County Agricultural Society: $10,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBusiness Arts and Recreation Center Inc: $8,284 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA FAMILY SERVICES: $5,276 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter For Rural Policy & Development: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt Francis Mission: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA INGALLS WILDER MUSEUM & TOURIST CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOTTONWOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 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 THE WINDOM AREA SHARING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Jackson Center for the Arts ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds WINDOM BASEBALL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDOM EDUCATIONAL HONOR LOANS INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON FOOD SHELF INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA WEST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Jackson County Agricultural Society ↗

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.

Southwest Initiative …Jackson Health Care F…Land O'Lakes Foundati…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Frank J Zaher Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Southwest Initiative FoundationMN21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert & Helen Remick Ch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Helen Remick Ch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 65 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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