· Private foundation
Fabricon 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNESOTA COLORECTAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,555 |
| SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RESEARCH | $2,500 |
| MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND | $1,800 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $1,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,650 |
| MACALESTER COLLEGE | $1,616 |
| WE2 GETHER CREATING CHANGE | $1,000 |
| THE SAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MONARCH JOINT VENTURE | $1,000 |
| WORKING BIKES | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE CIVICS CENTER | $750 |
| MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION | $750 |
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +82% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- MCMINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +192%
- NMNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS6× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +153%
- MPMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA8× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF SOUTH HIGH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -28%
- NFNETWORK FOR GOOD (SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS)one grant, 2020 · $3k
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.
The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…
Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
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…
Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.
The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts and the most unlike its peers is Montana Pool Service 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 30 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 77 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 MINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Working Bikes ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SOUTH HIGH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds MONARCH JOINT VENTURE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds ELYS HISTORIC STATE THEATER ↗
- Who funds WATERLEGACY ↗
- Who funds GROVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds REPOWER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds FUTURE GENERATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE UNITED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
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: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Otto Bremer Trust · John and Denise Graves Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Manitou Fund · The K Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation
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 Fabricon 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Move United — 16% of income from government
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.