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.

Spiller L'Chaim Fund

Spiller L'Chaim Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Spiller L'Chaim Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0187% 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

02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k30 grants · $26k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$825k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO	$10,000
OPEN ARMS MINNESOTA	$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$2,500
THE BLAKE SCHOOL	$2,500
BETH EL SYNAGOGUE	$1,800
AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION	$1,000
STEP	$1,000
TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$1,000
PEASE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$1,000
COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND	$1,000
MIA	$1,000
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION	$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$221k · 41 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$221k

$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+50%

Still filing today

63%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman 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.

Backed again, and grew

TB
THE BLAKE SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +8%
CR
COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +88%
OA
OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA
5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +41%

Funded once

N
NECHAMA
one grant, 2024 · $4k
EM
EVERY MEALgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +558%
A
ALIGHT
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +22%

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.

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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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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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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The Minneapolis Foundation

The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…

Philanthropy

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition

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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Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

The mission of the greater msp partnership is to accelerate regional competitiveness and inclusive economic growth through job creation, capital investment and execution of strategic initiatives. the partnership works to strengthen our…

Community Improvement

Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy

University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Minnesota Land Trust

The minnesota land trust protects and restores minnesota's most vital natural lands in order to provide wildlife habitat, clean water, outdoor experiences and scenic beauty for generations to come.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minneapolis Jewish Federation; the most unlike its peers is Camp. 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

42 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. 42 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

29/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$106,400Education$47,500Health$23,750Community Improvement$19,500Arts & Culture$18,500Human Services$18,000Recreation & Sports$7,700

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Spiller L'Chaim Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spiller L'Chaim Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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