Minnesota · Nonprofit
THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,356,896 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($347,700). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $451k
What The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton does
Mission
Through its magazine, books, local societies and national conferences, The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton promotes the writings and thought of g.k. Chesterton. The society helps facilitate and encourage over 100 local societies across the world and serves over 2,000 active members. The society also provides curriculum, tools and templates to members of the chesterton schools network in support of classical high school education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Production media and publishing: producing materials for audio visual media on or about works by g.k. Chesterton. We have made available writings that were previously out of print and have produced plays, movies and audio books on and about the writings and life of author g.k. Chesterton. Our organization also publishes gilbert magazine which publishes chesterton material and is a forum of exchange of ideas on this author.
$644,618 spent$336,645 earned by the program38% of program spendingSale of merchandise including books, magazines, media programs and publications of books by or about the writer g.k chesterton in an effort to aid in the research on chesterton's writings.
Chesterton school network: the american chesterton society, The Society of Gilbert Keith Chesterton and the chesterton school network, merged effective july 1, 2019. Leading up to the merger, the american chesterton society provided services to the chesterton school network.
$1,030,999 spent$597,361 earned by the program62% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,675,617.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $174k to $421k (+142%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
41% of THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Emily De Rotstein
Executive director and ex-officio
Board chair
Charlie Reese
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $4k → $571k.
10 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
69% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 52% · 2019 62% · 2020 42% · 2021 56% · 2022 43% · 2023 44% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
57% of THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $577k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $780k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON?
- THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (Minnesota) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,356,896 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($347,700). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,356,896 in grants to THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $347,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SOCIETY OF GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing