· Private foundation
The Joel and Teresa Pfister 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE TWIN CITIES | $21,000 |
| MOBILE HOPE | $12,000 |
| CRESCENT COVE | $10,000 |
| RISE UP NINJA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EDDY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| COMPASSION MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| BRAS FOR GIRLS | $5,000 |
| KALEIDOSCOPE PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $5,000 |
| WACONIA UNITED FOOD SHELF (GATHER & GROW) | $4,000 |
| SOUTHWEST CARVER COUNTY FOOD SHELF | $4,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $2,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA INC | $2,000 |
| RUBY'S HEART | $2,000 |
| GROVELAND EMERGENCY FOOD SHELF INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% 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 +42% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES5× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +42%
- STSTUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC2× · 2018–2019 · $50k · revenue +117%
- OAOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- SHSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +125%
- SSEMCACgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +27%
- NFNAU FOUNDATION - LEAF PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
End hunger together.
Family Pathways works alongside people to enhance lives through a continuum of essential services and, together with community, champions positive social change.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
End hunger together in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin.
To reshape the minnesota hunger relief system so that all food shelf shoppers (clients) are provided with predictable, healthy food options in a dignified and welcoming environment.
Engaging the community to end hunger
The open door is a leading hunger-relief organization serving dakota county, minnesota, where food insecurity is a growing challenge. the open door is dedicated to ending local hunger by providing access to healthy, fresh, and nutritious…
To assist individuals and families meet their basic needs by providing resources in a healthy and caring environment. through these actions we build hope and support self-sufficiency.
VEAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, multi-service, human service organization with the mission of "Together, we create pathways to stronger, more hopeful, communities through access to healthy food, housing stability and supportive services."
To eliminate hunger in south dakota.
To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.
A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Sanneh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rise Up Ninja Foundation. 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 23 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 55 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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds STUDENT TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds EDDY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SEMCAC ↗
- Who funds VAIL PLACE ↗
- Who funds PRESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Rise Up Ninja Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mobile Hope ↗
- Who funds Center for a Non Violent Community ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds WE CAN RIDE INC ↗
- Who funds CRESCENT COVE ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds YELLOW TREE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
- Who funds Bras For Girls ↗
- Who funds ROBINS NEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KALEIDOSCOPE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOPE RIDES ↗
- Who funds FREED Center for Independent Living Inc ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Gillette Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CARVER COUNTY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds BIO Girls Inc ↗
- Who funds ZION ORIGINATED OUTREACH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESTON SERVICEMEN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds BOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF OF EASTERN CARVER COUNTY ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The US Charitable Gift Trust
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 The Joel and Teresa Pfister 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.
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.
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