· Private foundation
Marbob Group
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Greater Twin Cities United Way | $35,000 |
| Center of the American Experiment | $35,000 |
| Family Enterprise USA | $12,500 |
| Roots Music Project Foundation | $10,000 |
| Hillsdale College | $10,000 |
| Mike Rowe Works Foundation | $5,000 |
| Veterans Airlift Command | $5,000 |
| The 30 Days Foundation | $5,000 |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation Parkinson | $5,000 |
| Park Nicollet Foundation | $5,000 |
| Backing the Blue Line | $3,000 |
| Williams College | $1,000 |
| Tunnel To Towers Foundation | $1,000 |
| Freedom Foundation of MN | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- COCenter of the American Experiment7× · 2019–2025 · $245k · revenue +17%
- PNPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +26%
Williams College9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $5k
- AMAmeriacn Migraine Foundationone grant, 2019 · $5k
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue ×45
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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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…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The foundation cultivates generosity by taking action on the greatest civic, social, and economic needs partnering with nonprofits, facilitating grantmaking, driving research and advocacy, and providing services to donors seeking to make a…
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
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…
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
We offer relief to cancer patients and their loved ones through financial assistance, education, and emotional support.
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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.
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 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds 30-DAYS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOTS MUSIC PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND ↗
- Who funds BACKING THE BLUE LINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds Healthwell Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PABS PACKS ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds CHILD LOSS FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Network for Good
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 Marbob Group 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.
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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.