· Private foundation
Adele Braun Charitable 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k11 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $750k
- $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS | $800,000 |
| MUNSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $620,000 |
| FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | $500,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S BAKERY | $500,000 |
| GRAYSON - JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| SCIENCE COACH BIO STL | $250,000 |
| ACCESS ACADEMIES | $200,000 |
| DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER | $150,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $50,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI | $50,000 |
| STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| FERN HOUSE - RESDENTIAL REHABILITATION FOR MEN | $50,000 |
| PARAQUAD | $50,000 |
| HOME SWEET HOME | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $4.7M) 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k 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
- FMFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +135% · 57% of their budget
- TWTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +96% · 52% of their budget
- GCGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARKone grant, 2019 · $500k
- MHMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (CHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL)one grant, 2019 · $375k
- CHCHARLEVOIX HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $350k
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 protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the most unlike its peers is Humane Society of Central Illinois. 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 37 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 37 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 FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds PARAQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds ACCESS ACADEMIES ↗
- Who funds FERN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER ↗
- Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ONLINE LEARNING ACADEMY CO-OP ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE MAGIC HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOME SWEET HOME ↗
- Who funds Equine Rescue and Adoption Foundation 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: Graybar Foundation · Washington University · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Pershing Charitable Trust · Tsf · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Edward Jones Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Adele Braun Charitable 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.