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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.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$430kPhilanthropy$260kPublic Benefit$245kScience & Tech$158kHealth$100kHuman Services$11kArts & Culture$10kEmployment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $143k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP Medical Debt: $1k → 13%RIP Medical Debt: $1k → 13%There With Care: $100 → 12%Pinky Swear Foundation: $500 → 11%Faith's Lodge: $100 → 11%Veterans Airlift Command: $5k → 11%Backing the Blue Line: $3k → 11%Backing the Blue Line: $1k → 11%Backing the Blue Line: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MD
TN
DC
OK
FL
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.
$1.2M · 18 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
25

Total granted

$1.2M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+38%

Still filing today

72%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CO
    Center of the American Experiment
    7× · 2019–2025 · $245k · revenue +17%
  • PN
    PARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +26%
  • Williams College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • AM
    Ameriacn Migraine Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • VF
    VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue ×45
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

1
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

Purpose: we inspire, advocate and invest to advance community visions. continued on sch o

Philanthropy
2
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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3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
4
The Minneapolis Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
5
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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6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
7
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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8
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
9
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
10
Angel Foundation

We offer relief to cancer patients and their loved ones through financial assistance, education, and emotional support.

Health
11
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

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.

Health
12
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

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).

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Local Initiatives Support Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $335,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUnited Way: $210,000 · OtherUnited WayFamily Enterprise USA: $100,000 · OtherFamily Enterprise USACenter for the American Experiment: $70,000 · OtherCenter for the American ExperimentPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $45,000 · OtherPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION+23 more: $25,000 · OtherCenter of the American Experiment: $245,000 · Youth DevelopmentCenter of the American…GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $105,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER TWI…30-DAYS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy30-DAYS FOU…MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $6,500 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,000 · EducationWilliams College: $9,000 · EducationDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,100 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $5,000 · Human ServicesBACKING THE BLUE LINE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $500 · Human Services+2 more: $200 · Human ServicesROOTS MUSIC PROJECT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $4,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $100 · Community Improvement
Other$785,000Youth Development$245,000Philanthropy$126,500Education$47,100Human Services$12,700Arts & Culture$10,000Community Improvement$4,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter of the American Experiment: $245,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY: $105,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget30-DAYS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWilliams College: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBACKING THE BLUE LINE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $4,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealthwell Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN AUSTIN CHELEY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPABS PACKS: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST OF HOPE PANTRY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD LOSS FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Ch Robinson Worldwide…Xcel Energy FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Minneapolis Found…Mightycause Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Network for Good
Ch Robinson Worldwide FoundationSD17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marbob Group funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marbob Group. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
7report 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
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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