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Ruth a and Raymond a Reister Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$859k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$333k
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 2025.

Health$1.9MArts & Culture$1.5MEducation$422kFood & Nutrition$225kCommunity Improvement$210kEnvironment$155kHuman Services$51kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $266k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $260k
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Minnesota Historical Society$333,333
SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND$60,000
Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation$50,000
Macphail Center for Music$50,000
Next Step of West Michigan$50,000
Minnesota Humanities Center$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER INC: $30k → 11%Foundation for Essential Needs: $15k → 11%MAD DADS of Minneapolis: $10k → 11%The Bridge for Youth: $10k → 11%Sharing and Caring Hands: $10k → 11%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%Avivo: $10k → 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 14 repeat orgs$731k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
16

Total granted

$3.1M
$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

86%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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

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Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MH
    MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $809k · revenue +12%
  • WE
    WALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $276k · revenue +12%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    5× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAUL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $96k · revenue +173%
  • Y
    Youthprise
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -55%
  • ML
    MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -41%
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
Arts Midwest Incorporated

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…

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
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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4
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

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.

Education
5
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
6
Minnesota Fringe Festival

Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.

Arts & Culture
7
Minnetonka Center for the Arts

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,…

Arts & Culture
8
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
9
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
10
Minnesota Children's Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
11
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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12
Minneapolis Downtown Council

To create an extraordinary downtown minneapolis, applying the core values of leadership, collaboration, advocacy and innovation.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
17/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAYO CLINIC: $750,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $125,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANST PAUL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $96,000 · OtherST PAUL CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIO…Minnesota Humanities Center: $60,000 · Other+9 more: $280,000 · Other+9 moreMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $808,666 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETYMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSICMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $143,300 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS…+6 more: $145,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreMAYO CLINIC: $750,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $155,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALING CENT…STARLITE SHORES FAMILY CAMP: $50,000 · HealthWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $276,000 · EducationWALLIN ED…Youthprise: $50,000 · EducationYouthpris…CLIMATE GENERATION: $30,000 · EducationCLIMATE G…TEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 · EducationTEXTILE C…SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $210,000 · Food & NutritionFRESH ENERGY: $75,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $30,000 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $15,000 · Human ServicesPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $11,140 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAD DADS of Minneapolis: $10,000 · Human ServicesAVIVO: $10,000 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$1,511,000Arts & Culture$1,296,966Health$955,000Education$381,000Food & Nutrition$210,000Environment$125,000Human Services$96,140

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 budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $808,666 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $750,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALLIN EDUCATION PARTNERS: $276,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMACPHAIL CENTER FOR MUSIC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER: $155,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $143,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH ENERGY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMinnesota Humanities Center: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouthprise: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetV3 SPORTS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEXT STEP OF WEST MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTARLITE SHORES FAMILY CAMP: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBLUE LAKE FINE ARTS CAMP: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER: $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMICROGRANTS: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTU DANCE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetIN PROGRESS: $25,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTEXTILE CENTER OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetIndigenous Roots: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ESSENTIAL NEEDS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMixed Blood Theatre Company: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $11,140 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAVIVO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONKEYBEARS HARMOLODIC WORKSHOP: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…The McKnight Foundati…Pohlad Family Foundat…Margaret a Cargill Fo…Mightycause Charitabl…Target FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationXcel Energy FoundationPatrick and Aimee But…Minnesota Humanities …Mortenson Family Foun…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN39.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ruth a and Raymond a Reister Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth a and Raymond a Reister Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Ruth a and Raymond a Reister Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Ruth a and Raymond a Reister Charitable Trust 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 40 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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