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Marvin & Betty Borman Foundation at a glance

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Marvin & Betty Borman 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.

$484k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$141k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$894kEducation$499kRecreation & Sports$498kCivil Rights$231kPhilanthropy$94kScience & Tech$70kPublic Benefit$30kCrime & Legal$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $334k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANTIDEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION$140,816
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC$97,439
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$96,228
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$40,000
BIONIC PROJECT INC$40,000
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE$40,000
JUST THE PILL$30,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS ABORTION FUND: $50k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $100k → 16%HUBERT H HUMPHREY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS: $30k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $100k → 14%BRIDGE THE GAP COLLEGE PREP: $9k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $100k → 9%ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $50k → 10%GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $40k → 10%BIONIC PROJECT INC: $40k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $97k → 16%MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $28k → 11%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $90k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $96k → 9%BIONIC PROJECT INC: $30k → 8%PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $90k → 16%MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $28k → 11%ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY: $225k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $90k → 9%MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $28k → 11%ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY: $225k → 14%TEMPLE ISRAEL MINNEAPOLIS: $250k → 11%JUST THE PILL: $30k → 14%TEMPLE ISRAEL MINNEAPOLIS: $248k → 11%OUR JUSTICE: $50k → 11%TEMPLE ISRAEL MINNEAPOLIS: $7k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART: $11k → 11%UNITED WAY: $10k → 11%NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $25k → 11%WALKER ART CENTER: $5k → 11%MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA: $5k → 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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 6 repeat orgs$455k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

$1.8M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+64%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureCivil RightsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $287k · revenue +4%
  • PP
    Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $286k · revenue +32%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES
    2× · 2022–2023 · $190k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • OJ
    OUR JUSTICE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +13%
  • EM
    Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +103%
  • ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -24%
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
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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2
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
3
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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4
Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington Dc Inc

Ppmw provides high-quality, compassionate healthcare, including reproductive care; promote sexual health; and advocate for reproductive rights and health equity for all.

Health
5
Intermountain Planned Parenthood

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…

Health
6
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
7
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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8
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
9
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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10
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
11
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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12
Pro-Choice Minnesota

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood North Central States; the most unlike its peers is Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $505,234 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST THOMAS UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · OtherST THOMAS UNIVERSITYEastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund: $50,000 · OtherACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $50,000 · Other+2 more: $40,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $287,439 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS …Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $286,228 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $190,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATESBIONIC PROJECT INC: $70,000 · HealthBIONIC PROJECT INCOUR JUSTICE: $50,000 · HealthOUR JUSTICE+1 more: $30,000 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $140,816 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $40,000 · Civil RightsMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $84,000 · PhilanthropyBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $25,000 · Crime & LegalMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,571 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureWALKER ART CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBridge the Gap College Prep: $9,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,095,234Health$913,667Civil Rights$180,816Philanthropy$84,000Education$40,000Crime & Legal$25,000Arts & Culture$20,571Youth Development$9,000

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $287,439 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $286,228 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $190,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $140,816 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $84,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIONIC PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetOUR JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $10,571 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep: $9,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Network of A…Hopewell FundAmerican Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Network of Abortion Funds IncOR13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Network of Abortion Funds Inc · Hopewell Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Marvin & Betty Borman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marvin & Betty Borman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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How do I get to Marvin & Betty Borman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marvin & Betty Borman 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.

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 21 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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