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Seidl Foundation Inc at a glance

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Seidl Foundation Inc

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.

$315k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$85k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$770kHuman Services$757kHealth$187kEmployment$120kArts & Culture$71kEducation$57kFood & Nutrition$50kSocial Science$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $212k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAY TO GROW$85,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$70,000
SOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER$57,000
CHILDRENS THEATRE COMPANY$25,000
START READING NOW$25,000
INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS$20,000
THE FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC$15,000
PAY IT FORWARD FUND$7,500
GRAYWOLF PRESS$5,000
WILDERNESS INQUIRY$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $560k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $5k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $70k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 11%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $100k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $85k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $85k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $35k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $25k → 11%THINK SMALL: $20k → 11%THINK SMALL: $10k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 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.
$1.3M · 17 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$1.3M
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+19%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • WT
    WAY TO GROW
    5× · 2021–2025 · $330k · revenue +8%
  • HH
    HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $162k · revenue +89%
  • SC
    SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES
    4× · 2022–2025 · $120k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SANNEH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +19%
  • PD
    PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · 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
African Development Center

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

Human Services
4
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
5
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
6
Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation

Southern minnesota initiative foundation is a regional development and philanthropic organization that fosters economic and community vitality in 20 counties of southern minnesota through a culture of collaboration and partnership, with a…

Community Improvement
7
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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8
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
9
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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10
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

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

Philanthropy
11
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
12
Reach for Resources Inc

Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners; the most unlike its peers is Start Reading Now. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $770,000 · PhilanthropyMARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC+2 more: $24,500 · PhilanthropyWAY TO GROW: $330,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $120,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESThe Family Partnership: $75,000 · Human ServicesThe Family PartnershipThink Small: $30,000 · Human ServicesThink Small+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $162,000 · Crime & LegalHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $162,000 · HealthOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $120,000 · EmploymentChildren's Theatre Company and School: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGRAYWOLF PRESS: $21,000 · Arts & CultureTHINK SMALL INSTITUTE: $35,000 · OtherTHINK SMALL…INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $35,000 · OtherINTERFAITH …Start Reading Now: $56,800 · OtherStart Readi…FOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $50,000 · OtherFOOD GROUP …WILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $18,000 · OtherWILDERNESS …CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $10,000 · OtherTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other
Philanthropy$794,500Human Services$560,000Crime & Legal$162,000Health$162,000Employment$120,000Arts & Culture$71,000Other$214,800

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARSHFIELD AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $770,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $330,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER: $162,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $162,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $120,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetStart Reading Now: $56,800 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD GROUP MINNESOTA INC THE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThink Small: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAYWOLF PRESS: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDERNESS INQUIRY INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOPE CHEST FOR BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Mightycause Charitabl…The Head Family Found…Linsmayer James B Fdn…Engelsma Family Found…The Sheltering Arms F…The Sauer Family Foun…Greater Twin Cities U…Thrivent Charitable I…
Otto Bremer TrustMN23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Head Family Foundation · Linsmayer James B Fdn Tr-Main · Engelsma Family Foundation · The Sheltering Arms Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · 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 Seidl Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Seidl Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Seidl Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Seidl Foundation Inc 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 20 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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