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Steven L and Jan L Kirchner Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$598k
Granted FY2023
52
Grants FY2023
11
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Animals$285kEducation$270kArts & Culture$161kReligion$95kEnvironment$83kHealth$74kYouth Development$59kHuman Services$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k34 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $305k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SIMON SAYS GIVE: $500 → 6%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $500 → 11%SHARING AND CARING HANDS: $2k → 11%REDEEMER CENTER FOR LIFE: $500 → 11%PRISM: $2k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $3k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $5k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
IA
RI
CA
VA
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$729k · 21 repeat orgs$495k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
25

Total granted

$729k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-2%

Still filing today

81%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $436k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • PA
    PROVIDENCE ACADEMY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $106k · revenue +17%
  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
  • SD
    ST DAVID'S CENTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $11k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • PC
    PLYMOUTH CRIME & FIRE PREV FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • BT
    BLOOMINGTON THEATER & ARTS
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • BI
    BIG ISLAND LEGACY
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
2
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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3
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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4
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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5
University of Minnesota Physicians

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…

Health
6
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
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
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
9
Mn Community Measurement

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

Health
10
Minnesota Chamber Foundation

The organization's mission is to bring stakeholders together to promote prosperity and long-term growth of minnesota's economy.

Public Benefit
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
32/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MN ZOO FOUNDATION: $274,710 · OtherMN ZOO FOUNDATIONAMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $87,500 · OtherAMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIAMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM: $75,000 · OtherMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUMOUR LADY OF GRACE: $60,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF GRACEOWATONNA ISD 761 FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherOWATONNA ISD 761 FOUNDATIONVEAP Inc: $37,000 · Other+49 more: $304,766 · Other+49 morePROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $106,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE ACADEM…University of St Thomas: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of St …DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MIN…+2 more: $4,500 · EducationChildren's Hospital Corporation: $20,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,500 · HealthMINNESOTA MILK BANK FOR BABIES: $3,500 · HealthBUNDLES OF LOVE: $3,500 · HealthCaringBridge: $3,000 · HealthMISSING GRACE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,000 · HealthYOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION INC: $2,000 · Health+2 more: $3,250 · HealthThe Cookie Cart: $24,200 · Youth DevelopmentST DAVID'S CENTER: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $1,275 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $17,170 · Arts & CultureMinnesota Children's Museum: $9,500 · Arts & CultureChildren's Theatre Company and School: $3,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTHLINK: $5,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT NORTH: $2,500 · Human ServicesSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $1,691 · Human ServicesPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $1,500 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1,000 · Human ServicesRedeemer Center for Life Inc: $500 · Human ServicesSIMON SAYS GIVE INC: $500 · Human ServicesBest Buddies International Inc: $5,000 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $3,000 · International
Other$888,976Education$190,500Health$57,750Youth Development$36,475Arts & Culture$29,670Human Services$12,691International$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROVIDENCE ACADEMY: $106,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVEAP Inc: $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cookie Cart: $24,200 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGES THEATRE COMPANY INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA: $17,170 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST DAVID'S CENTER: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Children's Museum: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBESTPREP: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $4,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMINNESOTA MILK BANK FOR BABIES: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUNDLES OF LOVE: $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE EDINA CRIME PREVENTION FUND INC: $3,150 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSING GRACE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT NORTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetORONO FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShare Winter Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S WORKSHOP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING AND CARING HANDS INC: $1,691 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridging Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUED PETS ARE WONDERFUL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $1,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRedeemer Center for Life Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMON SAYS GIVE INC: $500 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.

  • 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 Minnesota Children's Museum ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗

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.

The Richard M Schulze…The Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Graco FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Ch Robinson Worldwide…The K FoundationUnited Way WorldwideThe Hubbard Broadcast…Otto Bremer TrustLand O'Lakes Foundati…The Elizabeth C Quinl…
The Richard M Schulze Family FoundationMN26.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Steven L and Jan L Kirchner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steven L and Jan L Kirchner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report 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.

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 88 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home