How much does Spiller L'Chaim Fund give?

Spiller L'Chaim Fund reported 31 grants totaling $36,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Spiller L'Chaim Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Religion (16%), Health (12%).

Who are Spiller L'Chaim Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Blake School ($30k), Community Reinvestment Fund Inc ($15k), Open Arms of Minnesota ($15k).

Does Spiller L'Chaim Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Spiller L'Chaim Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Spiller L'Chaim Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.

Where is Spiller L'Chaim Fund based?

Spiller L'Chaim Fund is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Spiller L'Chaim Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 31
Grants FY2025: 30
Organizations funded FY2024: 23%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $500
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 30; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $825k
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Spiller L'Chaim Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	30	$36k	13%
FY2024	30	$34k	23%
FY2023	27	$31k	15%
FY2022	30	$32k	20%
FY2021	22	$25k	23%
FY2020	27	$25k	33%
FY2019	20	$16k	20%
FY2018	16	$14k	6%

87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$55kReligion$39kHealth$30kArts & Culture$22kFood & Nutrition$20kCommunity Improvement$20kRecreation & Sports$9kEnvironment$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Blake School	$30,250	9	0%
Community Reinvestment Fund Inc	$15,000	9	0%
Open Arms of Minnesota	$14,500	5	0%
Gilda's Club Twin Cities Inc	$12,500	7	1%
American Jewish University	$11,250	3	0%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$11,000	2	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$10,250	9	0%
Minneapolis Parks Foundation	$7,700	9	0%
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$3,500	6	0%
Doing Good Together	$3,250	9	1%

Show all 39 grantees

All grantees of Spiller L'Chaim Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Blake School	$30,250	9	0%
Community Reinvestment Fund Inc	$15,000	9	0%
Open Arms of Minnesota	$14,500	5	0%
Gilda's Club Twin Cities Inc	$12,500	7	1%
American Jewish University	$11,250	3	0%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media	$11,000	2	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$10,250	9	0%
Minneapolis Parks Foundation	$7,700	9	0%
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$3,500	6	0%
Doing Good Together	$3,250	9	1%
The Sanneh Foundation	$3,000	3	0%
Pease Community Foundation	$3,000	3	1%
National Park Foundation	$2,700	9	0%
Animal Humane Society	$2,600	8	0%
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education	$2,500	5	0%
Every Meal	$2,500	1	n/a
National Council of Jewish Women Minnesota (Mn) Section	$2,500	9	0%
The Colorado College	$2,000	4	0%
Linden Hills Neighborhood Council	$2,000	2	2%
Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest	$2,000	2	0%
Native American Heritage Association	$1,500	2	0%
Conservation Corps	$1,500	2	0%
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity	$1,500	2	0%
Alight	$1,000	1	0%
Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc	$1,000	2	0%
American Camping Association Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces	$1,000	1	0%
Global Health Solutions Inc	$1,000	1	0%
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger	$1,000	1	0%
Sierra Club	$1,000	1	0%
Second Harvest Heartland	$1,000	1	0%
Walker Art Center	$500	1	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$500	2	0%
Camp	$500	2	0%
First Nations Development Institute	$500	1	0%
Holocaust Remembrance Foundation of the Valley	$500	1	1%
Bucknell University	$500	2	0%
Spark Youth	$250	1	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$250	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Spiller L'Chaim Fund supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 38.

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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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL20.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Spiller L'Chaim Fund

How much does Spiller L'Chaim Fund give?: Spiller L'Chaim Fund reported 31 grants totaling $36,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Spiller L'Chaim Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Religion (16%), Health (12%).
Who are Spiller L'Chaim Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Blake School ($30k), Community Reinvestment Fund Inc ($15k), Open Arms of Minnesota ($15k).
Does Spiller L'Chaim Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Spiller L'Chaim Fund accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Spiller L'Chaim Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.
Where is Spiller L'Chaim Fund based?: Spiller L'Chaim Fund is based in MN.