How much does Fredrikson & Byron Foundation give?

Fredrikson & Byron Foundation reported 34 itemized grants totaling $612,000, out of $868,700 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Fredrikson & Byron Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (42%), Education (15%), Community Improvement (7%).

Who are Fredrikson & Byron Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Fund for Legal Aid ($535k), Volunteer Lawyers Network Ltd ($365k), UND Alumni Association and Foundation ($223k).

Does Fredrikson & Byron Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fredrikson & Byron Foundation?

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

Where is Fredrikson & Byron Foundation based?

Fredrikson & Byron Foundation is based in MN.

Fredrikson & Byron Foundation

Fredrikson & Byron Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Fredrikson & Byron Foundation

Fredrikson & byron is committed to improving the communities where we live and work.

$869k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$2.3MEducation$783kCommunity Improvement$358kArts & Culture$277kCivil Rights$195kHuman Services$95kHousing & Shelter$78kInternational$15kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 34 grants below total $612,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $868,700 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $256,700 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $120k
$10k–50k14 grants · $242k
$50k–250k3 grants · $250k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$183k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA FDTN	$100,000
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID	$100,000
VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK	$50,000
DRAKE UNIVERSITY	$30,000
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA	$30,000
THE ADVOCATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS	$25,000
METROPOLITAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT	$20,000
MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION	$18,000
NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN	$15,000
LEGALCORPS	$15,000
SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES	$15,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER	$15,000
MN ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS	$13,500
IOWA LEGAL AID	$13,500
IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA	$12,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $231k) 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.

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.1M · 37 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+2%

Still filing today

92%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther

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

TF
THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID
7× · 2017–2023 · $535k · revenue +57%
VL
VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD
9× · 2017–2025 · $365k · revenue +101%
UA
UND Alumni Association and Foundation
7× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +2%

Funded once

MH
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW
one grant, 2024 · $90k · revenue +0%
TC
TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC
one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +2%
GR
GLOBAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -69%

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.

Minnesota Women Lawyers

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

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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

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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Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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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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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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Minnesota Association for Justice

The purpose of the minnesota association for justice shall be to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states; to advance the science of jurisprudence; to promote the administration of justice; to uphold the honor of the…

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Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers

To reach out and confidentially serve members of the minnesota legal community experiencing conditions that impact the quality of their personal and professional lives, and to support their recovery, improve their lives, and further the…

Health

Minnesota State Bar Association

Minnesota state bar association promotes the highest standards of excellence and inclusion within the legal profession, provides valued resources to its members, and strives to improve the law and the equal administration of justice for…

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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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Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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Central Minnesota Legal Services

The mission of central minnesota legal services is to advocate for access to the civil justice system for low income people by providing high quality legal services and to improve the lives of people living in poverty by empowering…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance; 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.

04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/46

Grantees still filing

37/46

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,506,654Crime & Legal$1,062,000Education$952,900Arts & Culture$276,750Human Services$230,500International$202,000Employment$77,500

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

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.

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 TrustMN41.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Minnesota State Bar Foundation · Minnesota Justice Foundation · Faegre Drinker Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Pohlad Family Foundation · The McKnight 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 Fredrikson & Byron Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fredrikson & Byron Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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