· Private foundation
Roger & Violet Noreen Char Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE LU FAMILY FUND | $10,000 |
| NC LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC | $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 |
| ST THOMAS ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| FARMLINK PROJECT | $2,000 |
| THE ARTS PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 24 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 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 MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds N C LITTLE MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds PRAISE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Arts Partnership ↗
- Who funds FARMLINK PROJECT ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roger & Violet Noreen Char Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger & Violet Noreen Char Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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