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Fredrikson & Byron Foundation

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

$869k
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$2.3MEducation$783kCommunity Improvement$358kArts & Culture$277kCivil Rights$195kHuman Services$95kHousing & Shelter$78kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $612,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $868,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $256,700 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $242k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$183k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES$15,000
CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER$15,000
NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN$15,000
LEGALCORPS$15,000
IOWA LEGAL AID$13,500
MN ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS$13,500
IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA$12,000
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.

show:

Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $7k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $85k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN: $15k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN: $12k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DVLPMNT CTR CAP CMPGN: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 14%NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 14%PRISM: $7k → 11%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 37 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you 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

37
7

Total granted

$5.1M
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+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.

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
Crime & LegalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther

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
    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%

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
Minnesota Women Lawyers

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

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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
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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4
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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5
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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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
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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8
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
9
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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10
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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11
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance 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 backsteadyCharter School Facility Com…Charter and Independent Sch…Faith-Based Spiritual Minis…Industry Trade AssociationsYouth Development & Empower…Disability Services and Emp…Environmental Conservation …
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 50 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number14%0%<5yr10%0%5–10yr14%4%10–20yr13%17%20–35yr12%35%35–55yr36%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value14%0%<5yr10%0%5–10yr14%1%10–20yr13%14%20–35yr12%47%35–55yr36%38%55yr+

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/47
the rest of the field
10%
2,320/23,138

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

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

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 2017–2026, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $629,025 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $616,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD — $365,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTDMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $200,000 · OtherMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCELEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA — $140,500 · OtherLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTAMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $136,000 · OtherMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATIONMetropolitan Economic Development Association — $122,500 · OtherIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $87,000 · Other+9 more — $210,529 · Other+9 moreTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID — $535,000 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AIDSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $130,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL L…CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $118,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER …Iowa Legal Aid — $77,500 · Crime & LegalIowa Legal AidLEGALCORPS — $77,000 · Crime & LegalLEGALCORPSLEGAL RIGHTS CENTER — $56,000 · Crime & Legal+4 more — $68,500 · Crime & Legal+4 moreUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $223,400 · EducationUND Alumni Associati…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNES…TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $135,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE HAML…IOWA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $95,000 · EducationIOWA LAW SCHOOL FOUN…MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — $90,000 · EducationMITCHELL HAMLINE SCH…University of St Thomas — $90,000 · EducationUniversity of St Tho…DRAKE UNIVERSITY — $90,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC — $79,500 · EducationLOAN REPAYMENT ASSIS…MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $102,750 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $67,500 · Arts & CultureMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $18,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $13,500 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $209,500 · Human Services+3 more — $21,000 · Human ServicesThe Advocates For Human Rights — $195,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL HANDS IN SERVICE — $7,000 · InternationalMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $77,500 · Employment
Other$2,506,654Crime & Legal$1,062,000Education$952,900Arts & Culture$276,750Human Services$230,500International$202,000Employment$77,500

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 budgetTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID — $535,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD — $365,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetUND Alumni Association and Foundation — $223,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $209,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights — $195,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA — $140,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION — $136,000 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $135,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC — $130,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Economic Development Association — $122,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA — $118,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $102,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetMITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW — $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC — $87,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC — $79,500 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $77,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Legal Aid — $77,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLEGALCORPS — $77,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION — $67,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL RIGHTS CENTER — $56,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPolk County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project — $39,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK — $25,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA — $23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA — $23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD JUSTICE CENTER INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT — $18,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN — $14,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTUBMAN — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFEDERAL BAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANISHINABE LEGAL SERVICES — $7,029 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL — $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $6,000 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.

  • Who funds THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD ↗
  • Who funds UND Alumni Association and Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
  • Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH DAKOTA ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN MN REGIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Economic Development Association ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds IOWA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds LOAN REPAYMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds Iowa Legal Aid ↗
  • Who funds LEGALCORPS ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Polk County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSIDE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds TUBMAN ↗

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 TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Robins Kaplan Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Greater Twin Cities U…Minnesota State Bar F…Minnesota Justice Fou…Faegre Drinker Founda…Equal Justice WorksPohlad Family Foundat…The McKnight Foundati…
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

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 Fredrikson & Byron 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%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fredrikson & Byron Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fredrikson & Byron Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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