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The Douglass Brandenborg Family Fdn at a glance

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The Douglass Brandenborg Family Fdn

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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.5MHousing & Shelter$3.1MHuman Services$1.9MYouth Development$260kHealth$115kCommunity Improvement$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT MN SCHOOLS$275,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$205,668
WAY TO GROW$140,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$130,000
COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES$125,000
PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING$125,000
BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING$125,000
SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES$100,000
DOUGHERTY FAMILY COLLEGE$100,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA-TWIN CITIES$100,000
AEON$100,000
ST DAVID'S CHILD DEVELOPMENT & FAMILY SERVICES$75,000
WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN$75,000
URBAN HOMEWORKS$60,000
WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION$60,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.0M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%BLACK MEN TEACH: $50k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $50k → 11%BLACK MEN TEACH: $25k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $140k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $125k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $100k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $100k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $100k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $60k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $60k → 11%WAY TO GROW: $60k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $60k → 11%BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $50k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $125k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $125k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $125k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $100k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $100k → 11%PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING: $100k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $35k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $50k → 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 25 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
16

Total granted

$8.6M
$864k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+35%

Still filing today

72%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • GM
    GREAT MN SCHOOLS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +124%
  • PF
    PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $675k · revenue +36%
  • JP
    JEREMIAH PROGRAM
    6× · 2019–2024 · $655k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • HA
    HIAWATHA ACADEMIES
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $90k · revenue +88%
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
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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3
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
4
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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5
Minnesota Comeback

Driven by an unwavering moral imperative that every child, regardless of its race, income or zip code, deserves the same high-quality education, mn comeback has become a growing movement of philanthropists, community leaders and education…

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6
Minndependent

Minndependent connects and strengthens minnesota's private and independent schools through programming, partnerships and public policy so members can be student-centered and mission-driven.our vision is a vibrant educational ecosystem that…

Education
7
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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8
Minnesota Institute for Talented Youth

Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.

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9
Groves Academy

The mission of groves learning organization is to build confidence and success for learners, particularly those with learning differences such as dyslexia, adhd and executive function challenges. through research-based approaches and…

Education
10
Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation

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

Philanthropy
11
Think Small

To advance quality care and education of children in their crucial early years.

Human Services
12
Embracing Equity Inc

Embracing equity cultivates the mindsets and practices necessary to create an affirming, inclusive, and equitable educational ecosystem.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Perspectives Inc. 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

32 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. 32 of the 46 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,445,668 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVIN…+2 more: $90,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $600,000 · OtherCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIESTEACH FOR AMERICA-TWIN CITIES: $521,500 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA-TWIN C…DOUGHERTY FAMILY COLLEGE: $300,000 · OtherDOUGHERTY FAMILY COLLEGEPERSPECTIVES INC: $260,000 · OtherPERSPECTIVES INCCOLLEGE POSSIBLE MINNESOTA: $220,000 · OtherCOLLEGE POSSIBLE MINNESO…ASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL: $215,000 · OtherASCENSION CATHOLIC GRADE…ST DAVID'S CHILD DEVELOPMENT & FAMILY SERVICES: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Other+9 more: $400,500 · Other+9 moreGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $1,225,000 · EducationGREAT MN SCHOOLSBreakthrough Twin Cities: $280,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin Ci…THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationTHE WILDFLOWER FOUND…Ed Allies: $170,000 · EducationEd AlliesSWEET PEA MONTESSORI: $120,000 · EducationHIAWATHA ACADEMIES: $100,000 · EducationEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $90,000 · Education+5 more: $218,750 · Education+5 morePROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $675,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRID…WAY TO GROW: $625,000 · Human ServicesWAY TO GROWThe Family Partnership: $285,000 · Human ServicesThe Family Partn…THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $230,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE FOR Y…Black Men Teach: $125,000 · Human ServicesBlack Men Teach+1 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $655,000 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGR…AEON: $620,000 · Housing & ShelterAEONHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $340,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING IN ACT…+1 more: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $450,000 · Community ImprovementThe Banyan Foundation: $260,000 · Community ImprovementWashburn Center for Children: $75,000 · Health
Philanthropy$3,535,668Other$2,822,000Education$2,403,750Human Services$1,955,000Housing & Shelter$1,665,000Community Improvement$710,000Health$75,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $3,445,668 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT MN SCHOOLS: $1,225,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC: $675,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $655,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWAY TO GROW: $625,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetAEON: $620,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $600,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE: $450,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSING IN ACTION INC: $340,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetThe Family Partnership: $285,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $280,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetPERSPECTIVES INC: $260,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetThe Banyan Foundation: $260,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH: $230,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetEd Allies: $170,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetBlack Men Teach: $125,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSWEET PEA MONTESSORI: $120,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetHIAWATHA ACADEMIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $90,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIPP Minnesota: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROPEL NONPROFITS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYouthprise: $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION EVOLVING: $23,750 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT MN SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds WAY TO GROW ↗
  • Who funds AEON ↗
  • Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds HOUSING IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
  • Who funds Breakthrough Twin Cities ↗
  • Who funds PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIDGE FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds THE WILDFLOWER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ed Allies ↗
  • Who funds Black Men Teach ↗
  • Who funds SWEET PEA MONTESSORI ↗
  • Who funds HIAWATHA ACADEMIES ↗
  • Who funds SIMPSON HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Washburn Center for Children ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KIPP Minnesota ↗
  • Who funds PRODEO ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL #4213 ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNESOTA HOUSING FUND ↗

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Otto Bremer TrustThe Richard M Schulze…The Sauer Family Foun…Mortenson Family Foun…The McKnight Foundati…Wem FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationMinnesota Community F…Frey FoundationMightycause Charitabl…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN42.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Sauer Family Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Wem Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Minnesota Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Mightycause Charitable 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 The Douglass Brandenborg Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Douglass Brandenborg Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report 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
    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.

    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 46 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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