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Shavlik Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$560k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$542kScience & Tech$431kArts & Culture$403kEducation$364kHuman Services$281kHousing & Shelter$201kEmployment$188kYouth Development$134kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $492k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL$60,000
MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES$30,000
METRO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$30,000
SHARING OUR ROOTS$30,000
THE GREAT NORTHERN$30,000
WOODLAND CENTERS$30,000
TOTOE HEALTH EQUITY PROJECT$30,000
THE GUILD$30,000
30000 FEET$30,000
GUTHRIE THEATRE$30,000
RED LAKE NATION COLLEGE$30,000
THEATRE IN THE ROUND PLAYERS$30,000
ECOLIBRIUM3$29,709
RUTH'S HOUSE OF HOPE$25,000
VICTORIA THEATER ARTS CENTER$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $447k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SCOTT CARVER DAKOTA CAP AGENCY: $11k → 5%LIFEWORK SERVICES: $30k → 6%RED WING IGNITE: $30k → 9%ANNA MARIE'S ALLIANCE: $2k → 11%HOPE CENTER: $12k → 11%FOSTER ADVOCATES: $30k → 14%MINNESOTA RECOVERY CONNECTION: $30k → 14%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $24k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $15k → 11%THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $30k → 11%ELPIS ENTERPRISES: $13k → 14%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $30k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $24k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $10k → 11%NEWTRAX: $26k → 14%GUADALUPE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS: $8k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $21k → 14%PCS FOR PEOPLE: $20k → 14%FRASER: $18k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $25k → 11%CHANGE INC: $19k → 11%OPEN ACCESS CONNECTIONS: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$552k · 13 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +98% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
110

Total granted

$552k
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+25%

Still filing today

85%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $519k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MJ
    MONARCH JOINT VENTURE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $76k · revenue +196%
  • RI
    RISE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +54%
  • MM
    METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • C
    CaringBridge
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -7%
  • MB
    Mixed Blood Theatre Companygraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +86%
  • MA
    MISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
3
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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4
African Development Center

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

Human Services
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 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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7
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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8
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
9
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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10
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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11
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement
12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Touchstone Mental Health and the most unlike its peers is The Great Northern Winter Festival. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyArts and Performance Organi…Environmental Conservation …Community Foundations and F…Animal Rescue and Welfare S…Indigenous Community Advoca…Senior Housing and Care Ser…K-12 Charter and Alternativ…Healthcare Access and Servi…Youth Development ProgramsSocial Justice and Communit…Disability Services & Suppo…Food Assistance and Hunger …Community Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr14%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr14%19%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/104
the rest of the field
14%
2,577/19,011

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.

04the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 143 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/103
Grantees still filing
77/103
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ST PAUL — $60,000 · OtherMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $60,000 · Other+71 more — $1,417,734 · Other+71 moreTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $53,685 · Human ServicesTOUCHSTONE MENTA…CRESCENT COVE — $38,823 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVEFoster Advocates — $30,000 · Human ServicesFoster AdvocatesRED WING IGNITE — $30,000 · Human ServicesRED WING IGNITEMinnesota Recovery Connection — $30,000 · Human ServicesMinnesota Recove…THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR Y…LIFEWORKS SERVICES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesLIFEWORKS SERVIC…CHANGE INC — $26,698 · Human ServicesCHANGE INCNEWTRAX INC — $26,000 · Human ServicesNEWTRAX INCThe Family Partnership — $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Partn…NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $20,832 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLE — $20,000 · Human ServicesFRASER — $18,405 · Human Services+7 more — $67,844 · Human Services+7 moreCaringBridge — $30,000 · HealthCaringBrid…WOODLAND CENTERS — $30,000 · HealthWOODLAND C…CANCER LEGAL CARE — $30,000 · HealthCANCER LEG…PORTICO HEALTHNET — $30,000 · HealthPORTICO HE…HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $29,800 · HealthHENNEPIN H…HAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC — $27,000 · HealthHAMM MEMOR…COMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY …ANGEL FOUNDATION — $20,000 · HealthANGEL FOUN…TUBMAN — $17,600 · HealthTUBMANLIGHTHOUSE CENTER FOR VITAL LIVING — $16,034 · HealthLIGHTHOUSE…ELDER NETWORK — $15,000 · HealthFamilyWise Services — $10,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S DENTAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthTHEATRE IN THE ROUND PLAYERS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE IN…THE GREAT NORTHERN WINTER FESTIVAL — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREAT …The Minnesota Opera — $30,000 · Arts & CultureThe Minnes…THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART — $26,599 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM…Victoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts — $25,000 · Arts & CultureVictoria T…NORTHERN MINNESOTA PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN M…Bemidji Community Theater Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBemidji Co…REIF ARTS COUNCIL — $22,103 · Arts & CultureREIF ARTS …ITASCA COMMUNITY TELEVISION INC — $19,734 · Arts & CultureITASCA COM…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $19,212 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIE…MINNESOTA FRINGE FESTIVAL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureANOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $8,085 · Arts & CultureMONARCH JOINT VENTURE — $75,759 · EducationMONARCH JO…RED LAKE NATION COLLEGE — $30,000 · EducationRED LAKE N…DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $25,000 · EducationDUNWOODY C…LITERACY MINNESOTA — $25,000 · EducationLITERACY M…CENTURY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $23,913 · EducationCENTURY CO…826 MSP — $17,500 · Education826 MSPEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER — $17,000 · EducationEAST SIDE …FAITH COMMUNITY NURSE NETWORK OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $15,000 · EducationFAITH COMM…HIGH TECH KIDS — $12,000 · EducationNORTH HOUSE FOLK SCHOOL — $10,750 · EducationFRANKLIN CENTER — $10,500 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · Education+1 more — $5,308 · EducationRISE INCORPORATED — $60,000 · EmploymentHIRED — $55,000 · EmploymentABILITY BUILDING CENTER INC — $29,354 · EmploymentEMPLOYMENT ENTERPRISES INC — $15,000 · EmploymentThe Lift Garage — $10,877 · EmploymentACCESSABILITY INC — $9,750 · EmploymentAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $30,000 · Youth Development30000 Feet — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ROCHESTER — $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentLIFE HOUSE INC — $16,850 · Youth Development
Other$1,537,734Human Services$447,287Health$290,434Arts & Culture$280,733Education$277,730Employment$179,981Youth Development$125,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMONARCH JOINT VENTURE — $75,759 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRISE INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHIRED — $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH — $53,685 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWOMENVENTURE — $42,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCRESCENT COVE — $38,823 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCaringBridge — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMixed Blood Theatre Company — $30,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMISSION ANIMAL HOSPITAL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHARING OUR ROOTS — $30,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHEATRE IN THE ROUND PLAYERS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetGuild — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFoster Advocates — $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetRED WING IGNITE — $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMinnesota Recovery Connection — $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GREAT NORTHERN WINTER FESTIVAL — $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRED LAKE NATION COLLEGE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOODLAND CENTERS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER LEGAL CARE — $30,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAVENUES FOR YOUTH — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAPPLE TREE DENTAL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENDAZHI-NITAAWIGING CHARTER SCHOOL — $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget30000 Feet — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUXTAPOSITION ARTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIFEWORKS SERVICES INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Minnesota Opera — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPORTICO HEALTHNET — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $29,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetECOLIBRIUM3 — $29,709 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetABILITY BUILDING CENTER INC — $29,354 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHAMM MEMORIAL PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHANGE INC — $26,698 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART — $26,599 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEWTRAX INC — $26,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY DENTAL CARE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUTH'S HOUSE OF HOPE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetVictoria Theater Arts Center dba 825 Arts — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN MINNESOTA PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBemidji Community Theater Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetLITERACY MINNESOTA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWACOSA — $24,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Mardag FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…Medica FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…Greater Twin Cities U…The K Foundation
Otto Bremer TrustMN100.9× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mardag Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Medica Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · The K 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 Shavlik Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    52report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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