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Fastbreak Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$281kYouth Development$160kHealth$152kHuman Services$133kFood & Nutrition$65kCivil Rights$55kEducation$50kHousing & Shelter$47kRecreation & Sports$35kOther$522k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$609k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Minnesota Fastbreak Foundation$50,000
The Minneapolis Foundation$50,000
Youthlink MN$25,000
Playworks Minnesota$25,000
A Mother's Love Initiatives$25,000
Special Olympics Minnesota Inc$25,000
Twin Cities Pride$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CRESCENT COVE: $5k → 11%AVIVO: $3k → 11%APPETITE FOR CHANGE: $5k → 11%GOOD IN THE HOOD: $5k → 11%The Minnesota Fastbreak Foundation: $50k → 11%Youthlink MN: $25k → 11%Youthlink MN: $25k → 11%YOUTHLINK: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$829k · 34 repeat orgs$393k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
73

Total granted

$829k
$343k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+40%

Still filing today

65%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES
    4× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +49%
  • HI
    HOPEKIDS INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +123%
  • M
    MATTER
    3× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Moorhead
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • MC
    MAYO CLINIC CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • EI
    EAGLEWATCH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +4%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
6
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

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

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7
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

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,…

Philanthropy
8
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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9
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

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…

Environment
10
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
11
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
12
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Camp Cambria Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Foundations and G…Social Justice & Legal Advo…Youth Sports LeaguesMember Recreation ClubsYouth & Disability Support …Food Assistance and Basic N…Veterans and Service ClubsHealthcare System Foundatio…Charter Schools and Alterna…Senior Housing & Care
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%5%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr13%26%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/90
the rest of the field
15%
2,160/14,829

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.

04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 110 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/87
Grantees still filing
63/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Playworks Minnesota — $55,000 · OtherPlayworks MinnesotaURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $50,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INCA Mother's Love Initiatives — $50,000 · OtherA Mother's Love InitiativesRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $40,500 · OtherRebuilding Together - Twin Cities+67 more — $408,500 · Other+67 moreTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $251,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUND…MINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $20,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS…THE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SANNEH F…The Cookie Cart — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Cookie C…+2 more — $10,000 · Youth Development+2 moreHOPEKIDS INC — $60,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS IN…MAYO CLINIC — $27,175 · HealthMAYO CLINICAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $17,500 · HealthAMERICAN CA…ANGEL FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthFIREFLY SISTERHOOD — $7,500 · Health+8 more — $32,500 · Health+8 moreYOUTHLINK — $55,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHLINKTHE MINNESOTA FASTBREAK FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MINNES…PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesPINKY SWEA…APPETITE FOR CHANGE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGOOD IN THE 'HOOD — $5,000 · Human ServicesCRESCENT COVE — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesMATTER — $55,000 · Food & NutritionCHANNEL ONE INC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $5,000 · Food & NutritionGAY-LESBIAN-BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE-T — $52,500 · Civil RightsANN BANCROFT FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Civil Rights
Other$654,000Philanthropy$281,000Youth Development$160,000Health$152,175Human Services$132,500Food & Nutrition$65,000Civil Rights$55,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION — $251,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES — $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMATTER — $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHLINK — $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGAY-LESBIAN-BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER PRIDE-T — $52,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MINNESOTA FASTBREAK FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MINNESOTA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $40,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $27,175 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HEROES LEAGUE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA MILITARY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FLIP SAUNDERS LEGACY FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetThe Cookie Cart — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBolder Options — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBESTPREP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAGLEWATCH INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMENVENTURE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES — $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFIREFLY SISTERHOOD — $7,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF MN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE LEARNING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetACTIVE KIDS ASSOCIATION OF SPORT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEVIEW FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAPPETITE FOR CHANGE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMORG — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHANNEL ONE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNOVATIVE BLOOD RESOURCES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP CAMBRIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KURT B SEYDOW DYSTONIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFREEDOM ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRN ALUMNI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Richard M Schulze…Otto Bremer TrustCh Robinson Worldwide…Fr Bigelow FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Pohlad Family Foundat…The Walser FoundationGreater Twin Cities U…Margaret a Cargill Fo…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN60.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Margaret a Cargill 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 Fastbreak 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fastbreak Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fastbreak 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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