How much does Faegre Drinker Foundation give?

Faegre Drinker Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $564,733, out of $694,192 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Faegre Drinker Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (48%), Philanthropy (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are Faegre Drinker Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Twin Cities United Way ($613k), The Fund for Legal Aid ($393k), Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd ($341k).

Does Faegre Drinker Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Faegre Drinker Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Fredrikson & Byron Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Where is Faegre Drinker Foundation based?

Faegre Drinker Foundation is based in MN.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Public charity

Faegre Drinker Foundation

To support the communities served by the law firm of faegre drinker biddle & reath llp by focusing on those organizations that are leaders in providing social, legal, and cultural programs that enrich the experience of the diverse range of people in such communities.

$694k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 27
Itemized grants FY2024: 22
Organizations funded FY2023: 0%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $565k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $12,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $78,000
Organizations funded a year: 19 to 27; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $705k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Faegre Drinker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	27	$565k	30%
FY2023	22	$461k	0%
FY2022	26	$567k	27%
FY2021	27	$469k	41%
FY2020	24	$405k	50%
FY2019	19	$383k	11%
FY2018	22	$443k	23%
FY2017	23	$515k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$1.8MPhilanthropy$679kArts & Culture$458kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kEducation$160kCivil Rights$121kHealth$69kHuman Services$65kOther$0

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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$612,657	8	0%
The Fund for Legal Aid	$393,451	8	6%
Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd	$340,682	8	5%
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado	$265,400	8	2%
Indiana Legal Services Inc	$170,500	6	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$135,000	3	0%
Walker Art Center	$130,000	8	0%
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$110,000	8	0%
The Advocates For Human Rights	$90,001	4	1%
Guthrie Theater Foundation	$90,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Faegre Drinker Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Greater Twin Cities United Way	$612,657	8	0%
The Fund for Legal Aid	$393,451	8	6%
Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd	$340,682	8	5%
Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado	$265,400	8	2%
Indiana Legal Services Inc	$170,500	6	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$135,000	3	0%
Walker Art Center	$130,000	8	0%
Minnesota Orchestral Association	$110,000	8	0%
The Advocates For Human Rights	$90,001	4	1%
Guthrie Theater Foundation	$90,000	3	0%
Minnesota Private College Fund	$90,000	7	1%
The Chicago Bar Foundation	$83,050	5	1%
Equal Justice Works	$78,500	3	0%
Colorado Lawyers Committee	$74,340	7	5%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts	$72,500	7	0%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc	$70,000	7	1%
Alliance for Children's Rights	$70,000	1	1%
Indiana Bar Foundation	$68,000	8	1%
Minnesota Justice Foundation	$57,000	8	2%
United Way of Central Iowa	$56,000	7	0%
Hias Inc	$50,000	1	0%
Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia- United Renters for Justice	$36,101	1	8%
Iowa Law School Foundation	$33,500	2	n/a
Twin Cities Public Television Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Erins House for Grieving Children Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Center for Leadership Development Inc	$25,000	2	0%
The Nita Foundation	$25,000	3	1%
American Nurses Foundation Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Iowa Freedom of Information Council	$24,042	1	12%
University of Colorado Foundation	$22,750	2	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$20,408	3	0%
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society	$20,000	2	0%
Indianapolis Bar Foundation Inc	$20,000	3	2%
Kosciusko County Shelter for Abuse Inc	$17,500	2	1%
Inner City Hope Corporation D/B/A Miss Virginia's Food Pantry	$17,500	2	4%
Indiana University Foundation	$16,950	2	0%
Eskenazi Health Foundation Inc	$16,000	1	0%
Neighborhood Justice Center Inc	$15,000	1	2%
Central Minnesota Legal Services	$15,000	1	1%
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center	$13,500	1	n/a
Legalcorps	$12,500	2	3%
Philadelphia Bar Foundation	$12,000	1	1%
Tubman	$10,167	1	0%
Indiana State University Foundation Inc	$10,050	1	0%
The Arc of Northeast Indiana Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Cardinal Services Inc of Indiana	$10,000	1	0%
Open Door Ministry of Huntington	$10,000	1	n/a
Casa of Kosciusko County Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Covenant Community Development Corp	$10,000	1	1%
Nijc Nfp	$10,000	1	0%
Fellowship Missions Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Glorious Gate Rowing Assoc Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Carolina Small Business Development Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Dayspring Center Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Inc	$10,000	1	0%
American Civil Liberties Foundation of Pennsylvania Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Ocean Conservancy	$10,000	1	0%
Blue Jacket Inc	$10,000	1	1%
St David's Center	$10,000	1	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$10,000	1	0%
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network	$7,500	1	0%
Joe's Kids Inc	$7,500	1	1%
American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota Foundation	$7,500	1	0%
Home Line	$7,020	1	1%
Combined Community Services	$7,000	1	1%
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc	$6,000	1	0%
Children's Theatre Company and School	$5,500	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Faegre Drinker Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

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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.

Otto Bremer TrustMN25.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Equal Justice Works · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Aws Foundation Inc · Perkins Coie 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.

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About Faegre Drinker Foundation

How much does Faegre Drinker Foundation give?: Faegre Drinker Foundation reported 27 itemized grants totaling $564,733, out of $694,192 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Faegre Drinker Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (48%), Philanthropy (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Faegre Drinker Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Twin Cities United Way ($613k), The Fund for Legal Aid ($393k), Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd ($341k).
Does Faegre Drinker Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Faegre Drinker Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otto Bremer Trust, Fredrikson & Byron Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Faegre Drinker Foundation based?: Faegre Drinker Foundation is based in MN.