· Private foundation
Steven L and Jan L Kirchner Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k34 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $305k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OUR LADY OF GRACE | $60,000 |
| MN ZOO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OWATONNA ISD 761 FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $45,000 |
| RICHFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,021 |
| CHILDRENS MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM | $25,000 |
| BIG ROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $20,000 |
| ST MARY'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATRE | $17,500 |
| STAGES THEATER COMPANY | $17,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COOKIE CART | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 11 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PAPROVIDENCE ACADEMY2× · 2021–2022 · $106k · revenue +17%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
- SDST DAVID'S CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- PCPLYMOUTH CRIME & FIRE PREV FUNDone grant, 2022 · $15k
- BIBIG ISLAND LEGACYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- BTBLOOMINGTON THEATER & ARTSone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o
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…
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…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Children's Workshop. 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.
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 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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. 51 of the 88 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds STAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG ISLAND LEGACY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The K Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Land O'Lakes Foundation · The Elizabeth C Quinlan 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 Steven L and Jan L Kirchner Family Foundation 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.