· Private foundation
Martin and Brown Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINNPOST | $150,000 |
| WALKER ART CENTER | $120,000 |
| CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE | $80,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $75,000 |
| ADVOCATE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE (JDC) | $50,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD NCS | $45,000 |
| AVIVO | $30,000 |
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| THEATER MU | $12,000 |
| MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- WAWALKER ART CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $615k · revenue +471%
THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $375k · revenue +69%- WCWashburn Center for Children4× · 2022–2025 · $215k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $65k · revenue +137%
- LOLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERSone grant, 2024 · $40k
- CNCARPENTER NATURE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
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…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.
To develop and sustain a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee women the right to make personal decisions regarding the full range of reproductive choices.
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 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…
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
Planned Parenthood of Montana empowers all people to make informed decisions and ensures the freedom to manage their own sexuality, and personal health by providing the highest quality confidential healthcare services, education, and…
The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Theater Mu Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 33 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 WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
- Who funds The Advocates For Human Rights ↗
- Who funds MinnPost ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
- Who funds THEATER MU INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AVIVO ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MICROGRANTS ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA PRIVATE COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINK ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS ↗
- Who funds PROVIDE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
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: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jane R Newman Charitable Trust · Frey Foundation · Marbrook Foundation · Lenfestey Family Foundation Inc · The Walser 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 Martin and Brown 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.
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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