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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 FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$59kHealth$51kReligion$38kEducation$30kArts & Culture$24kCrime & Legal$14kInternational$13kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$278k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MONARCH JOINT VENTURE$1,000
THE SAGE FOUNDATION$1,000
WE2 GETHER CREATING CHANGE$1,000
WORKING BIKES$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION$750
THE CIVICS CENTER$750
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BLACK OUTSIDE INC: $100 → 16%WE2 GETHER CREATING CHANGE: $1k → 32%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $2k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $1k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $1k → 11%DIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $1k → 11%TWIN CITIES MUSIC COMMUNITY TRUST: $500 → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
WV
MD
DC
MS
AL
TX
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$241k · 38 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
29

Total granted

$241k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
0%

Still filing today

71%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • MC
    MINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +192%
  • NM
    NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS
    6× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +153%
  • MP
    MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SOUTH HIGH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -28%
  • NF
    NETWORK FOR GOOD (SAVE THE BOUNDARY WATERS)
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Environmental Initiative

Catalyze collaboration across perspectives, power, and systems for social equity and environmental health.

Environment
2
Minnesota Environmental Partnership

The minnesota environmental partnership is a coalition that strengthens member effectiveness and builds collective power to secure a healthy environment for all minnesotans.

Environment
3
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
4
Alliance for Metropolitan Stability

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…

Community Improvement
5
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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6
The Great Northern Winter Festival

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,…

Arts & Culture
7
Fresh Energy

Shape and drive bold policy solutions to achieve equitable carbon-neutral economies.

Environment
8
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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9
Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership

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…

Community Improvement
10
Mixed Blood Theatre Company

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.

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11
Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources

The organization pursues higher standards of news coverage of natural resources and the environment -- standards of accuracy, fairness, balance, depth and context.

Arts & Culture
12
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard for the Arts; 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.
04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
32/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $35,710 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $8,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERCENTER FOR THE VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $5,750 · OtherDENVER UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · OtherSLOAN KETTERING CANCER RESEARCH: $4,000 · OtherDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $4,500 · OtherACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $4,000 · Other+35 more: $43,161 · Other+35 moreNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $28,500 · EnvironmentNORTHEASTERN MINNESO…MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $8,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA CENTER FOR…EARTHJUSTICE: $7,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEWATERLEGACY: $2,750 · EnvironmentWATERLEGACY+4 more: $950 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,000 · HealthMINNESOTA COLOR…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…+1 more: $250 · HealthMACALESTER COLLEGE: $11,316 · EducationMACALESTER …UNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY …FRIENDS OF SOUTH HIGH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF …MONARCH JOINT VENTURE: $3,000 · EducationMONARCH JOI…GROVES ACADEMY: $2,500 · EducationGROVES ACAD…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $12,200 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $5,800 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITI…ELYS HISTORIC STATE THEATER: $2,795 · Arts & CultureELYS HIST…+7 more: $1,720 · Arts & Culture+7 moreWorking Bikes: $7,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUND: $3,050 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,250 · InternationalHIAS INC: $1,000 · InternationalEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $8,500 · Civil RightsJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION: $2,100 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,250 · Civil RightsMoveOn Education Fund: $500 · Civil Rights+1 more: $100 · Civil Rights
Other$110,121Environment$47,700Health$37,250Education$26,916Arts & Culture$22,515International$13,300Civil Rights$12,450

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMINNESOTA COLORECTAL CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS: $28,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $12,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $11,316 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY: $8,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWorking Bikes: $7,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $5,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $5,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SOUTH HIGH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDIVISION OF INDIAN WORK: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVE TWIN CITIES: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $3,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $3,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONARCH JOINT VENTURE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD CONNECTION: $3,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetELYS HISTORIC STATE THEATER: $2,795 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWATERLEGACY: $2,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPOWER: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTION: $2,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE GENERATIONS INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMOVE UNITED: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe2gether Creating Change: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFT DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HISTORY THEATRE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoveOn Education Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwin Cities Music Community Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMONTANA POOL SERVICE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SPIKES: $301 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLEN CANYON INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTORREY HOUSE PRESS: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ely Community Resource Inc: $140 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRACE MEDIA INC: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK OUTSIDE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEFORE RACISM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMinnesota Lakes and Rivers Protection and Education: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetListening Point Foundation: $100 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.

  • 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SOUTH HIGH FOUNDATION 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 ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Fr Bigelow FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…PatagoniaorgOtto Bremer TrustJohn and Denise Grave…Mardag FoundationManitou FundThe K FoundationThe Jamf Nation Globa…
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL25.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Fabricon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fabricon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Move United: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 77 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home