· Private foundation
Ruth a and Raymond a Reister Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $260k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Minnesota Historical Society | $333,333 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $60,000 |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $50,000 |
| Minnesota Humanities Center | $50,000 |
| Next Step of West Michigan | $50,000 |
| Macphail Center for Music | $50,000 |
| Wallin Education Partners | $46,000 |
| Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp | $40,000 |
| Springboard for the Arts | $25,000 |
| Textile Center of Minnesota | $25,000 |
| V3 Sports Inc | $25,000 |
| The Museum of Russian Art | $25,000 |
| Fresh Energy | $25,000 |
| Foundation for Essential Needs | $15,000 |
| MAD DADS of Minneapolis | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $96k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +31% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
- MHMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2017–2025 · $809k · revenue +12%
- WEWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS8× · 2018–2025 · $276k · revenue +12%
- SHSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND5× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SPST PAUL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $96k · revenue +21%
- YYouthpriseone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -55%
- WWWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +882%
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.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
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…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
In the belief that the visual arts are indispensable to a healthy community, it is the mission of the minnetonka center for the arts to provide teaching excellence, quality exhibitions, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages,…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children…
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…
To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 40 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 MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Humanities Center ↗
- Who funds Youthprise ↗
- Who funds WALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEXT STEP OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARLITE SHORES FAMILY CAMP ↗
- Who funds V3 SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
- Who funds TEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds IN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART ↗
- Who funds TU DANCE ↗
- Who funds Indigenous Roots ↗
- Who funds JUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Mixed Blood Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAD DADS of Minneapolis ↗
- Who funds MONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds SHARING AND CARING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds AVIVO ↗
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 · The Minneapolis Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Target Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Patrick and Aimee Butler Family · Minnesota Humanities Center · Mortenson Family 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 Ruth a and Raymond a Reister Charitable 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.
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