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Ronald and Janet Schutz Family Foundation at a glance

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Ronald and Janet Schutz Family Foundation

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.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$423kHuman Services$281kEducation$162kPublic Benefit$76kArts & Culture$35kSocial Science$35kCrime & Legal$25kCommunity Improvement$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $104k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$991k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PHILIP THE DEACON LUTHERAN CHURCH$33,000
ST PHILIP THE DEACON LUTHERAN CHURCH$30,000
TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC$11,000
INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS$10,000
CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT$10,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY$10,000
CAN DO CANINES$5,000
BLOOM EARLY LEARNING$5,000
UPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER$4,000
ST PHILIP THE DEACON LUTHERAN CHURCH$2,500
REDEMPTION PROJECT$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS$1,000
NORWAY HOUSE$1,000
WAYZATA-PLYMOUTH MEALS ON WHEELS INC$250
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 (FY17–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REDEMPTION PROJECT: $3k → 14%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $20k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%BLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $5k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TW: $10k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TW: $5k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TW: $5k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TW: $5k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TW: $5k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE GREATER TW: $5k → 11%REDEMPTION PROJECT: $3k → 11%REDEMPTION PROJECT: $1k → 11%REDEMPTION PROJECT: $1k → 11%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 23 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+18%

Still filing today

78%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • IO
    INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $208k · revenue +58%
  • MU
    Marquette University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +46%
  • CO
    Center of the American Experiment
    8× · 2018–2025 · $86k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +105%
  • MM
    MINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +42%
  • LC
    LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -5%
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
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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2
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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3
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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4
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
5
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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6
The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy
7
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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8
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
9
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
10
Minnesota State University Student Association Inc

Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…

Education
11
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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12
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wayzata-Plymouth Meals on Wheels. 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PHILIP THE DEACON LUTHERAN CHURCH: $474,000 · OtherST PHILIP THE DEACON LUTHERAN CHURCHINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $207,500 · OtherINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS+20 more: $75,150 · Other+20 moreMarquette University: $90,000 · EducationMarquette Universi…TEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $57,000 · EducationTEE IT UP FOR THE …The Charlemagne Institute: $45,000 · EducationThe Charlemagne In…University of St Thomas: $8,000 · Education+2 more: $5,000 · EducationBLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $65,000 · Human ServicesBLOOM EAR…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $35,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…THE REDEMPTION PROJECT: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE REDEM…Center of the American Experiment: $86,250 · Youth DevelopmentGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $27,500 · Arts & CultureNorway House: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $1,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureUPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER: $15,500 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $9,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $22,500 · Community Improvement
Other$756,650Education$205,000Human Services$107,000Youth Development$86,250Arts & Culture$32,250Crime & Legal$24,500Community Improvement$22,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $207,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetMarquette University: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $86,250 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOM EARLY LEARNING: $65,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTEE IT UP FOR THE TROOPS INC: $57,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetThe Charlemagne Institute: $45,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $22,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetUPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER: $15,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEARTLINK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAN DO CANINES: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVENN FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $9,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REDEMPTION PROJECT: $7,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL LUTHERAN CHOIR CORP: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorway House: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTANS' MILITARY APPRECIATION FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Constellation Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE DIRECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR LAWFUL UNIONISM: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayzata-Plymouth Meals on Wheels: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Robins Kaplan Foundat…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Mark E and Mary a…Caridad CorporationMightycause Charitabl…The Head Family Found…Nicholson Family Foun…The Hubbard Broadcast…Thrivent Financial fo…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Thrivent Charitable I…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Mark E and Mary a Davis Foundation · Caridad Corporation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing

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 Ronald and Janet Schutz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ronald and Janet Schutz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ronald and Janet Schutz Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ronald and Janet Schutz Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 39 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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