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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $573k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT | $40,000 |
| METRO BLOOMS | $40,000 |
| GREEN CARD VOICES | $20,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MN | $20,000 |
| LA OPORTUNIDAD INC | $20,000 |
| DAILY WORK | $20,000 |
| CLIMATE GENERATION A WILL STEGER LEGACY | $20,000 |
| FRESH ENERGY | $20,000 |
| MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY | $20,000 |
| PROJECT SUCCESS | $19,500 |
| ACHIEVE MPLS | $15,000 |
| EARL E BAKKEN CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL HEALING | $15,000 |
| SOMALI YOUTH AND FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY | $15,000 |
| YOUTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +21% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $136k 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
- LPLOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT5× · 2020–2024 · $123k · revenue ×14
- GCGREEN CARD VOICES4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +48%
- MCMINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY4× · 2020–2024 · $99k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- GRGREAT RIVER GREENINGone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +17%
- WIWOMENS INITIATIVE FOR SELF EMPOWERMENT (WISE) INCone grant, 2022 · $20k
- CLCOMMUNIDADES LATINAS UNIDAS EN SERVICIOone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Mixed Blood Theatre Company uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.
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…
Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Wonderlust Productions is a multicultural, multi-disciplinary arts ensemble that illuminates a community's story through performance, mixing community members from across generations, ethnicities, and perspectives, alongside an ensemble of…
Minnesota fringe connects adventurous artists with adventurous audiences by creating open, supportive forums for free and diverse artistic expression.
Minneapolis Climate Action is a 501c(3) nonprofit founded in 2007 by a group of dedicated individuals committed to addressing climate change in their community. After almost 10 years of working at the neighborhood level and piloting the…
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hmong American Partnership and the most unlike its peers is Tigerlion Arts. 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 26 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
141 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. 141 of the 182 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 CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
- Who funds LOWER PHALEN CREEK PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREEN CITIES ACCORD ↗
- Who funds GREEN CARD VOICES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds Daily Work ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds HMONG AMERICAN FARMERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds World Savvy ↗
- Who funds LA OPORTUNIDAD INC ↗
- Who funds THEATER MU INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TIGERLION ARTS ↗
- Who funds CAPI USA ↗
- Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds WELLSHARE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Illusion Theater and School Inc ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE FREEDOM LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SEAD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds METRO BLOOMS ↗
- Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAGAMALA DANCE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LATINO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TAIKOARTS MIDWEST ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
- Who funds Isuroon ↗
- Who funds Sahan Journal ↗
- Who funds The Cedar Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ARCATA PRESS ↗
- Who funds IN BLACK INK ↗
- Who funds KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
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: 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
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 Marbrook 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.
- Deschutes Land Trust — 46% of income from government
- Oregon Natural Desert Association — 9% of income from government
- Think Wild — 7% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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.
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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.
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