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The Chesterman Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$564k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$1.2MPhilanthropy$561kHuman Services$400kArts & Culture$395kHealth$372kEducation$212kYouth Development$126kHousing & Shelter$104kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $166k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $298k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART CENTER ASSOCIATION OF SIOUX CITY$50,000
SIOUXLAND SPORTS ACADEMY$50,000
SIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION$40,000
AGAPE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC$25,000
WARMING SHELTER$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTH CENTRAL STATES$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA$25,000
PGA REACH NEBRASKA$18,000
LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST$15,000
SIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION$15,000
OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER CO$10,000
CASA DE LA CULTURA$10,000
TEAMMATES$10,000
FOODBANK OF LINCOLN$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOT MEALS USA: $5k → 13%HUNGRY HEARTS INC: $5k → 5%DAKOTABILITIES: $8k → 9%MISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $5k → 10%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $18k → 13%EMILY'S HOPE INC: $5k → 9%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $8k → 13%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $8k → 13%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $8k → 13%PGA REACH NEBRASKA: $5k → 13%HOMEWOVEN: $3k → 12%CASA DE LA CULTURA: $10k → 12%WOMEN AWARE: $5k → 13%WOMEN AWARE: $2k → 13%WOMEN AWARE: $2k → 13%WOMEN AWARE: $2k → 13%CRITTENTON CENTER: $1k → 13%Camp High Hopes: $25k → 13%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $25k → 13%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $20k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES INC: $5k → 13%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $5k → 13%CAMP HIGH HOPES: $5k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES: $1k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%MARY ELIZABETH DAY NURSEY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%MARY ELIZABETH DAY NURSEY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%MARY ELIZABETH DAY NURSEY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%MARY ELIZABETH DAY NURSEY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%MID-STEP SERVICES INC: $1k → 13%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
IL
OR
SD
IA
OH
CA
NE
SC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 49 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
26

Total granted

$2.7M
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $228k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +34%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA
    8× · 2018–2025 · $123k · revenue +156%
  • MU
    MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • ST
    Siouxland Tennis Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +82%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +196%
  • SY
    SIOUXLAND YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -1%
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
Siouxland Chamber of Commerce

Improve the quality of the siouxland area

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2
Sioux City Housing Trust Fund Inc

To act as the local governing board of sioux city housing trust fund by collecting and disbursing revenue for the purpose of encouraging the development and redevelopment of affordable housing for sioux city's income qualified residents.

Housing & Shelter
3
Food Bank of Iowa

The organization receives, warehouses, and distributes salvageable food items to non-profit tax exempt member agencies to feed the ill, needy, and infants.

Food & Nutrition
4
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
5
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
6
Southeastern North Dakota Community Action Agency

Southeastern north dakota community action agency (sendcaa) was formed in 1965 to provide a range of services and activities in a six county area designed to alleviate poverty and give low-income people the opportunity to improve their…

Human Services
7
Sioux Falls Environmental Access Inc
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8
Sioux Falls Cares Inc

To provide food, clothing, toys and other miscellaneous items to families in need.

Philanthropy
9
Sioux City Regional Convention and Visitors Bureau

The mission of the sioux city regional convention center and visitors bureau is to promote tourism and the hospitality industry in the greater siouxland area.

Community Improvement
10
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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11
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
12
Realtor Association of the Sioux Empire Inc

To offer leadership, involvement and support; encouraging the membership to professionally achieve their goals and serve all in the spirit of the golden rule.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Siouxland Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Falls Area Singletrack Inc. 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

76 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. 76 of the 107 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
42/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIOUX CITY ART CENTER: $185,000 · OtherSIOUX CITY ART CENTERBOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA: $122,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWATHE ART CENTER ASSOCIATION OF SIOUX CITY: $81,992 · OtherTHE ART CENTER ASSOCIATION OF SIOUX CITYFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC: $71,500 · OtherFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INCTEAMMATES: $65,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY: $60,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $56,000 · OtherNorm Waitt Sr YMCA: $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF IOWA: $45,000 · OtherTHE WARMING SHELTER INC: $85,000 · OtherTHE WARMING SHELTER INC+54 more: $503,215 · Other+54 moreSIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $805,852 · Recreation & SportsSIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATI…SIOUXLAND SPORTS ACADEMY: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsSIOUXLAND SPORTS ACADEMY+8 more: $70,500 · Recreation & Sports+8 moreSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropySIOUXLAND COMMUNI…SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $22,500 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $200,000 · HealthSIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER: $25,000 · HealthHEALTH INC HOSPICE: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthSIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $90,439 · EducationMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · EducationBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationReaching Higher Iowa: $7,500 · Education+2 more: $7,000 · EducationCAMP HIGH HOPES: $80,000 · Human ServicesNEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION: $47,000 · Human ServicesMID-STEP SERVICES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN AWARE: $11,000 · Human ServicesCASA DE LA CULTURA D/B/A CINCO DE MAYO OMAHA: $10,000 · Human ServicesDAKOTABILITIES INC: $7,500 · Human Services+9 more: $37,500 · Human ServicesSIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SIOUX CITY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC: $5,834 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,325,207Recreation & Sports$926,352Philanthropy$542,500Health$255,000Education$208,939Human Services$204,000Arts & Culture$95,834

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC: $805,852 over 5y, 23% of budgetSIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA: $122,500 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetSIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $90,439 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WARMING SHELTER INC: $85,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetTHE ART CENTER ASSOCIATION OF SIOUX CITY: $81,992 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP HIGH HOPES: $80,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC: $71,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER: $50,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SIOUX CITY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $40,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH INC HOSPICE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAFEPLACE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNoahs Hope Animal Rescue Inc: $18,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSANFORD CENTER: $16,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIAR CLIFF UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ OMAHA: $12,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetMID-STEP SERVICES INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN AWARE: $11,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetSIOUXLAND YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SIOUX CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSIOUX FALLS ZOO & AQUARIUM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIKE UNION MENTORING PROJECT: $9,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetReaching Higher Iowa: $7,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetDAKOTABILITIES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIOUXLAND HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SIOUXLAND INC: $5,834 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PEOPLE IN NEED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND UNITED WAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-PLAINS UNITED WAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHOT MEALS USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMISSOURI SHORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE STREET OF SIOUXLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKEARNEY FAMILY YMCA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetBEACON CENTER: $5,000 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 SIOUX CITY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUXLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS HOME OF SIOUX CITY IOWA ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MORNINGSIDE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE WARMING SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ART CENTER ASSOCIATION OF SIOUX CITY ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HIGH HOPES ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUXLAND SPORTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SIOUXLAND EXPO CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA PGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SIOUX CITY CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SIOUXLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SIOUX CITY ↗
  • Who funds SIOUXLAND REGIONAL CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH INC HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds Siouxland Tennis Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SANFORD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAFEPLACE ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Noahs Hope Animal Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds SANFORD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC ↗
  • Who funds SIOUX EMPIRE UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗

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.

Missouri River Histor…The Roth & Letch Fami…First Interstate Banc…Berenstein Family Fou…Waitt FoundationSiouxland Community F…Peterson Family Found…Greenberg FoundationAalfs Family Foundati…The Sherwood Foundati…Food Bank of Siouxlan…Helios Foundation
Missouri River Historical Development IncIA65.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Missouri River Historical Development Inc · The Roth & Letch Family Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Berenstein Family Foundation · Waitt Foundation · Siouxland Community Foundation · Peterson Family Foundation · Greenberg Foundation · Aalfs Family Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Food Bank of Siouxland Inc · Helios 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 The Chesterman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Chesterman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Chesterman Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Chesterman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 107 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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