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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 FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$78k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$1.8MPhilanthropy$679kArts & Culture$458kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kEducation$160kCivil Rights$121kHealth$69kHuman Services$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $564,733 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $694,192 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $129,459 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $148k
$12,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$705k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY$78,000
ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS$70,000
FUND FOR LEGAL AID$47,500
VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK$41,000
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS$41,000
LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF COLORADO$28,975
INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES INC$25,000
IOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL$24,042
ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$20,000
WALKER ART CENTER INC$15,000
IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$15,000
CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION$13,509
MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND$12,000
PHILADELPHIA BAR FOUNDATION$12,000
TUBMAN CENTER$10,167
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMBINED COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WARSAW: $7k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%EASTER SEALS ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA: $10k → 12%MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY: $8k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
IL
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IN
PA
CA
CO
MO
NC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 32 repeat orgs$530k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
28

Total granted

$3.3M
$376k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID
    8× · 2017–2024 · $393k · revenue +57%
  • VL
    VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD
    8× · 2017–2024 · $341k · revenue +101%
  • LA
    Legal Aid Foundation of Colorado
    8× · 2017–2024 · $265k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -6%
  • IU
    INQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $36k · revenue +344%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
2
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
3
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
4
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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5
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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6
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
8
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

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9
American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa

The union works to advocate and advance a public policy agenda to support and protect the constitution of the united states and the constitution of the state of iowa. it works to maintain throughout the united states the rights of free…

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10
Northwest Consumer Law Center

The northwest consumer law center zealously advocates, litigates, and promotes access to justice for low and moderate income clients, and through its education programs, empowers consumers with the knowledge and resources to protect their…

Crime & Legal
11
Dakota Plains Legal Services

To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance

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12
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Development ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsUnited Way Affiliates
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%2%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr16%34%35–55yr18%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr16%33%35–55yr18%34%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/69
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,920

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID — $393,451 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AIDLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado — $265,400 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Foundation of ColoradoIndiana Legal Services Inc — $170,500 · Crime & LegalIndiana Legal Services IncEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $78,500 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE WORKSColorado Lawyers Committee — $74,340 · Crime & LegalColorado Lawyers CommitteeINDIANA BAR FOUNDATION — $68,000 · Crime & LegalINDIANA BAR FOUNDATION+6 more — $89,500 · Crime & Legal+6 moreVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD — $340,682 · OtherVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LT…IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $70,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINN…ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $70,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGH…MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $57,000 · OtherMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $56,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA+27 more — $355,167 · Other+27 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $612,657 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWIN CITIE…+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWALKER ART CENTER — $130,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CE…MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $110,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORC…GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $90,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEAT…MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $72,500 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS S…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES P…The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,500 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND — $90,000 · EducationTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION — $83,050 · EducationIOWA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $33,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $22,750 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $20,408 · EducationIndiana University Foundation — $16,950 · EducationIndiana State University Foundation Inc — $10,050 · EducationCARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA — $10,000 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $135,000 · InternationalThe Advocates For Human Rights — $90,001 · InternationalHIAS INC — $50,000 · InternationalINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE — $36,101 · Housing & ShelterIOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL — $24,042 · Housing & ShelterFELLOWSHIP MISSIONS INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterDayspring Center Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOME LINE — $7,020 · Housing & Shelter
Crime & Legal$1,139,691Other$948,849Philanthropy$622,657Arts & Culture$458,000Education$286,708International$275,001Housing & Shelter$87,163

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $612,657 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID — $393,451 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD — $340,682 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetLegal Aid Foundation of Colorado — $265,400 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetIndiana Legal Services Inc — $170,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER — $130,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $110,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $90,001 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND — $90,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION — $83,050 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $78,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetColorado Lawyers Committee — $74,340 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $72,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS — $70,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANA BAR FOUNDATION — $68,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $57,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA — $56,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHIAS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINQUILINXS UNIDXS POR JUSTICIA- UNITED RENTERS FOR JUSTICE — $36,101 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetErins House for Grieving Children Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NITA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COUNCIL — $24,042 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $22,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $20,408 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS BAR FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKOSCIUSKO COUNTY SHELTER FOR ABUSE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINNER CITY HOPE CORPORATION D/B/A MISS VIRGINIA'S FOOD PANTRY — $17,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $16,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEskenazi Health Foundation Inc — $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD JUSTICE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCENTRAL MINNESOTA LEGAL SERVICES — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEGALCORPS — $12,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA BAR FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTUBMAN — $10,167 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana State University Foundation Inc — $10,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Small Business Development Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVENANT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL SERVICES INC OF INDIANA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIJC NFP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Otto Bremer TrustFredrikson & Byron Fo…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Dorsey & Whitney …Lilly Endowment IncThe Minneapolis Found…Robins Kaplan Foundat…Greater Twin Cities U…Equal Justice WorksMightycause Charitabl…Aws Foundation IncPerkins Coie Foundati…
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

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 Faegre Drinker 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
25report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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