· Private foundation
Roger & Violet Noreen Char Trust
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE COMPANY | $122,246 |
| ST STEPHEN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $105,000 |
| LUTHERAN MIDEAST DEVELOPMENT | $93,100 |
| ORDWAY CTR FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $30,000 |
| NC LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC | $10,000 |
| THE LU FAMILY FUND | $10,000 |
| DODGE NATURE PRESCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN | $3,000 |
| HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX CHURCH | $3,000 |
| FARMLINK PROJECT | $2,000 |
| ST THOMAS ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- LMLutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society8× · 2017–2024 · $836k · revenue +4% · 51% of their budget
- OCORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +56%
- TLTHEATER LATTE DA2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- NINEIGHBORS INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +18%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IOINTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIANCHARITone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 enrich the Twin Cities community by sharing distinctive and engaging chamber orchestra performances. We are committed to inclusivity and strive to provide all people in our community with opportunities to connect with our music.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
The Minnesota Opera connects people in the shared pursuit of a more empathetic, equitable, joyful life by expanding the circle of musical storytelling.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
The guthrie theater engages exceptional theater artists in the exploration of both classic and contemporary plays, connecting the community we serve to one another and to the world. through its extraordinary artists, staff and facility,…
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Present opera performances in duluth, minnesota and bring opera to schools in minnesota and wisconsin.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
Theatre can lead to extraordinary moments of shared imagination. it enables us to stand in anothers shoes to better understand ourselves and the world around us. it shows us who we are, who we have been, who we could be. the nt delivers on…
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Praise Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 Lutheran Mideast Development The Lutheran Orient Mission Society ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER LATTE DA ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment 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 Roger & Violet Noreen Char Trust 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.