Minnesota · 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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $278k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Fabricon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $30k | 41% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $27k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $27k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $22k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $36k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $30k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $28k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $36k | 10% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Colorectal Cancer Research Foundation | $32,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness | $28,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media | $12,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Macalester College | $11,316 | 8 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $7,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Working Bikes | $7,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Twin Cities Public Television Inc | $5,800 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $5,100 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fabricon Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Fabricon Foundation
- How much does Fabricon Foundation give?
- Fabricon Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $32,031 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fabricon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (22%), Health (19%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Fabricon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Colorectal Cancer Research Foundation ($32k), Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness ($29k), Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media ($12k).
- Does Fabricon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fabricon Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fabricon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mightycause Charitable Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is Fabricon Foundation based?
- Fabricon Foundation is based in MN.
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