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Marbrook Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$685k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
86
Grants FY2024
87
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
68 to 87
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Marbrook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving85$673k25%
FY202387$710k33%
FY202279$737k25%
FY202178$695k53%
FY202068$388kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$798kArts & Culture$590kHuman Services$305kCivil Rights$243kEducation$238kYouth Development$235kCrime & Legal$162kInternational$123kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Climate Generation$136,00052%
Lower Phalen Creek Project$123,00052%
Green Cities Accord$105,00036%
Green Card Voices$100,000413%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy$99,00041%
Fresh Energy$95,00041%
Conservation Minnesota$81,00042%
Project Success$73,50050%
Daily Work$70,00046%
Achieve Twin Cities$65,00040%
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All grantees of Marbrook Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Climate Generation$136,00052%
Lower Phalen Creek Project$123,00052%
Green Cities Accord$105,00036%
Green Card Voices$100,000413%
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy$99,00041%
Fresh Energy$95,00041%
Conservation Minnesota$81,00042%
Project Success$73,50050%
Daily Work$70,00046%
Achieve Twin Cities$65,00040%
Hmong American Farmers Association$65,00041%
World Savvy$60,00041%
La Oportunidad Inc$57,50046%
Theater Mu Incorporated$56,50042%
Tigerlion Arts$55,500413%
The Advocates For Human Rights$55,00041%
Capi USA$55,00040%
Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc$50,00031%
International Institute of Minnesota$45,00030%
The Banyan Foundation$45,00041%
Wellshare International$44,00041%
Illusion Theater and School Inc$42,00042%
Sead Project$40,00042%
East Side Freedom Library$40,00033%
Metro Blooms$40,00013%
Augsburg University$37,50040%
Ragamala Dance$35,00032%
Neighborhood House$35,00030%
Taikoarts Midwest$30,00027%
Isuroon$30,00021%
Great River Greening$30,00011%
The Cedar Cultural Center Inc$30,00031%
Sahan Journal$30,00021%
Latino Economic Development Corporation$30,00020%
Youth Leadership Initiative$30,00025%
Centro Tyrone Guzman$30,00021%
Karen Organization of Minnesota$25,00020%
Arcata Press$25,00052%
In Black Ink$25,00053%
Charlottesville Tomorrow$23,00051%
Ten Thousand Things Theater$22,50031%
Access Philanthropy Charities$21,00021%
Lake Street Council$21,00031%
Commonbond Communities$20,00020%
Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota$20,00020%
Wilderness Inquiry Inc$20,00020%
Nexus Community Partners$20,00020%
New Native Theatre$20,00021%
Ka Joog Nonprofit Organization$20,00021%
Exposed Brick Theatre$20,00025%
Minnesota State Council on Economic Education$20,00022%
The Great Northern Winter Festival$19,00022%
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation$15,50050%
Literacy Minnesota$15,0001n/a
Coalition of Asian American Leaders$15,00010%
Minnesota Museum of American Art$15,00011%
Somali Youth and Family Development Center$15,00015%
Lake Country School Montessori Learning Environments$15,00050%
Penumbra Theatre Company Inc$14,75011%
New Arab American Theater Works$14,500212%
Khyentse Foundation$13,25050%
Hmong American Partnership$12,50010%
Breck School$12,00050%
Romero Institute$12,00050%
Naropa University$12,00040%
Appetite for Change Inc$10,50050%
Brownbody$10,00013%
The Cowles Center$10,00010%
Deschutes Land Trust$10,00050%
Ananya Dance Theatre$10,00011%
African Development Center$10,00010%
Reviving the Islamic Sisterhood For$10,00011%
Orono Foundation for Education$9,00050%
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation$8,25050%
The Arc Greater Twin Cities$8,0002n/a
Twin Cities Public Television Inc$7,50010%
Sweet Potato Comfort Pie$7,00013%
Friends of the Future$6,50020%
Pillsbury United Communities$6,50020%
Springhouse Community School$6,50021%
Owamniyomni Okhodayapi$6,00020%
Intercambio de Comunidades$5,50040%
Oregon Natural Desert Association$5,50040%
Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project$5,00013%
Zorongo Flamenco Inc$5,00013%
Cantus$5,00011%
Soomaal House of Art$5,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota$5,00010%
Twin Cities Media Alliance$5,00011%
Cornell University$5,00050%
Emergency Family Assistance Association$4,50040%
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc$4,50040%
Chronicles of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche$3,75032%
Big Island Mediation$3,50011%
Senior Center Inc$3,50010%
The Arc Minnesota Inc$3,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,00010%
Lao Community Center of Wisconsin Inc$3,0001n/a
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$3,00010%
Abbott Northwestern Hospital Foundation$2,75020%
Friends Without a Border$2,50010%
North Hawaii Hospice Inc$2,50020%
Yinghua Academy$2,00010%
Cal-Wood Education Center$2,00010%
Minnesota Zoo$2,0002n/a
Juxtaposition Arts Inc$2,00020%
Kokua Mau Inc$2,00011%
Center for Economic Inclusion$2,00010%
Local Food Hub Inc$2,00030%
Amherst College Trustees$2,00020%
Circus of the Star$2,00020%
Cultivate Charlottesville$1,50010%
Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative$1,50010%
Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team Inc (AMURT)$1,50010%
Birth Sisters of Charlottesville$1,5001n/a
Chinook Fund Inc$1,50010%
Casa de Paz$1,50011%
Food Bank of the Rockies$1,50010%
Mother House Dba Haven Ridge$1,00010%
Maji Ya Chai Land Sanctuary$1,00010%
Voices for Racial Justice$1,00010%
412 Food Rescue Inc$1,00020%
The Sanneh Foundation$1,00010%
Animal Humane Society$1,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,00010%
The Circus Barn Inc$1,00010%
The Grief Club of Minnesota$1,00010%
Tibetan Education Action$1,0001n/a
Think Wild$1,00010%
City of Promise Inc$1,00010%
Kahilu Theatre Foundation$1,00010%
Freedom Farm$1,00010%
The Loppet Foundation Inc$1,00010%
New Dawn Guatemala$1,00012%
Youthprise$1,00010%
Rhode Island School of Design$1,00010%
Mn350$1,00010%
Buddhist Film Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Minds Matter of Bay Area Inc$1,00020%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp$50010%
Bridges to Community Inc$50010%
Penland School Of Craft$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($362k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marbrook Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetClimate Generation: $136,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLower Phalen Creek Project: $123,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetGreen Cities Accord: $105,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetGreen Card Voices: $100,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMinnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy: $99,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFresh Energy: $95,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetConservation Minnesota: $81,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetProject Success: $73,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDaily Work: $70,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetAchieve Twin Cities: $65,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHmong American Farmers Association: $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWorld Savvy: $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLa Oportunidad Inc: $57,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetTheater Mu Incorporated: $56,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTigerlion Arts: $55,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights: $55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCapi USA: $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetImmigrant Law Center of Minnesota Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Institute of Minnesota: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $45,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWellshare International: $44,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetIllusion Theater and School Inc: $42,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSead Project: $40,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetEast Side Freedom Library: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMetro Blooms: $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAugsburg University: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRagamala Dance: $35,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNeighborhood House: $35,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTaikoarts Midwest: $30,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetIsuroon: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGreat River Greening: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Cedar Cultural Center Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSahan Journal: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLatino Economic Development Corporation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Leadership Initiative: $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCentro Tyrone Guzman: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKaren Organization of Minnesota: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetArcata Press: $25,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetIn Black Ink: $25,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCharlottesville Tomorrow: $23,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTen Thousand Things Theater: $22,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAccess Philanthropy Charities: $21,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLake Street Council: $21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCommonbond Communities: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Social Service of Minnesota: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWilderness Inquiry Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNexus Community Partners: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNew Native Theatre: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 135.

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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.

Marbrook FoundationMN121.4× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marbrook Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · Propel Nonprofits · Headwaters Foundation for Justice · Target Foundation · Minnesota Humanities Center · Otto Bremer Trust · Pohlad Family 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.

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How do I get to Marbrook Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marbrook 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.

About Marbrook Foundation

How much does Marbrook Foundation give?
Marbrook Foundation reported 86 grants totaling $685,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 87 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Marbrook Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (25%), Arts & Culture (18%), Human Services (9%).
Who are Marbrook Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Climate Generation ($136k), Lower Phalen Creek Project ($123k), Green Cities Accord ($105k).
Does Marbrook Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marbrook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marbrook Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marbrook Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, Fr Bigelow Foundation.
Where is Marbrook Foundation based?
Marbrook Foundation is based in MN.

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 182 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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