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The Robert & Teresa Foundation at a glance

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The Robert & Teresa 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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$15kHuman Services$9kInternational$5kPublic Benefit$4kEducation$3kCrime & Legal$2kCommunity Improvement$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE$1,000
CATHOLIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$500
ST PAUL SERVICES FDN$500
SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL$500
MINNESOTA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Friends of the Poor: $3k → 5%SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS: $7k → 14%BACKING THE BLUE LINE: $1k → 11%SAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%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.
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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8k · 5 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
13

Total granted

$8k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+3%

Still filing today

40%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MV
    MINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE
    2× · 2021–2025 · $2k · revenue +39%
  • MS
    MINNESOTA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $2k
  • SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue -42%

Funded once

  • CO
    CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • SS
    SAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue 0%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE POOR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -36%
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
Rinn Mc Tua Fbo Cath Diocese Duluth
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2
Minnesota Valley Lutheran High School Foundation Inc
Education
3
Southwest Minnesota Pride
Civil Rights
4
St Paul Pipefitters Local 455 Apprentice Scholarship Fund
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5
Minnesota American Legion Auxiliary and the Sons of the American
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6
St Paul Basketball Association

Basketball Orginization

Youth Development
7
St Paul Capitals Hockey Association

The st. paul capitals hockey association, a community built around a common respect for the game of hockey, strives to consistently develop players and coaches to their full potential in a fun and safe hockey environment. spcha members…

Recreation & Sports
8
Civic Consulting Minnesota

Ccm helps local governments achieve significant and measurable improvements by giving them the tools to be more efficient. we do this by providing private sector pro bono expertise to solve specific, tangible problems for governmental…

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9
Care in Action Minnesota

Our mission is to enhance the quality of life of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, strengthen families and prevent childhood maltreatment, by providing timely crucial support that meets the basic needs of local families and…

Human Services
10
Martin County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition

Martin county substance abuse coalition's (mcsap) mission is to prevent underage use and abuse of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs in martin county, minnesota. mcsap primarily works to share resources, ideas and information to raise…

Health
11
Minnesota Rush

To promote the game of soccer for players age 5-19 in rochester, minnesota and surounding communities

Recreation & Sports
12
Minnesota Pharmacists Association

Serving minnesota pharmacists to advance patient care.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Schools Center of Excellence (Cscoe); the most unlike its peers is Safe Summer Nights 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

9 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. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF ST JOSEPH: $13,200 · OtherCHURCH OF ST JOSEPHUNITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $2,000 · OtherUNITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLCatholic Services Appeal Foundation: $2,000 · OtherCatholic Services Appeal FoundationMINNESOTA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherMINNESOTA SHERIFFS ASSOCIATIONMN VOTERS ALLIANCE: $1,500 · OtherMN VOTERS ALLIANCEIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherST PAUL SERVICES FDN: $1,000 · OtherCharity and Development Appeal: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $1,000 · OtherSAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesSAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INCFRIENDS OF THE POOR INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE POOR INCBACKING THE BLUE LINE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBACKING THE BLUE LINE INCSAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATIONMINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE: $2,000 · Public BenefitSMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 · HealthCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $1,300 · EducationCATHOLIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$25,700Human Services$12,000Public Benefit$2,000Health$1,500Education$1,300Recreation & Sports$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAFE SUMMER NIGHTS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE POOR INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS CENTER OF EXCELLENCE (CSCOE): $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACKING THE BLUE LINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT PAUL SERVES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Catholic Community Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Catholic Community Foundation of MinnesotaMN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · 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 The Robert & Teresa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Teresa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Robert & Teresa Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Robert & Teresa 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 19 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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