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Adele Braun Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$7.4MAnimals$4.9MHuman Services$3.6MInternational$3.1MEducation$2.3MFood & Nutrition$850kCivil Rights$800kScience & Tech$725kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $253k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $750k
  • $250k+7 grants · $3.7M
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS$800,000
MUNSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION$620,000
GRAYSON - JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION$500,000
THE WOMEN'S BAKERY$500,000
FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION$500,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$500,000
SCIENCE COACH BIO STL$250,000
ACCESS ACADEMIES$200,000
DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER$150,000
LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION$50,000
QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER$50,000
FERN HOUSE - RESDENTIAL REHABILITATION FOR MEN$50,000
PARAQUAD$50,000
STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE$50,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI$50,000
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 (FY19–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FERN HOUSE - RESDENTIAL REHABILITATION FOR MEN: $800k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%FERN HOUSE - RESDENTIAL REHABILITATION FOR MEN: $50k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $500k → 11%HOME SWEET HOME: $50k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
CO
MO
KY
TN
FL
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 29 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
5

Total granted

$23M
$1.4M

Still filing today

69%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • FM
    FOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +135% · 57% of their budget
  • TW
    THE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +96% · 52% of their budget
  • GC
    GRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • MH
    MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (CHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL)
    one grant, 2019 · $375k
  • CH
    CHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $350k
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
Midlands Humane Society

To protect and nurture companion animals and enrich the lives of people who love them.

Animals
2
Furman University

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.

Education
3
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
4
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
5
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

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.

Animals
6
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

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,…

Animals
7
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
8
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

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…

Animals
9
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
10
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
11
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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12
Missouri Historical Society

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.…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donald Danforth Plant Science Center; 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.
04the grantee network

22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARAQUAD INC: $1,750,000 · OtherPARAQUAD INCMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $1,253,325 · OtherMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONSST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOO FOUNDATIONURBAN LEAGUE OF ST LOUIS: $800,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF ST LOUISSCIENCE COACH BIO STL: $725,000 · OtherSCIENCE COACH BIO STLCHURCHILL CENTER AND SCHOOL: $575,000 · OtherCHURCHILL CENTER AND SCHOOLST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARK: $500,000 · OtherST LOUIS ZOOLOGICAL PARKCHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $486,000 · OtherMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (CHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL): $375,000 · OtherCHARLEVOIX HOSPITAL: $350,000 · Other+12 more: $1,470,000 · Other+12 moreFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $3,500,000 · Human ServicesFOCUS MARINES FOUNDA…FERN HOUSE INC: $850,000 · Human ServicesFERN HOUSE INCTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE LITTLE BIT FOUND…+1 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,700,000 · AnimalsGRAYSON-JOCKEY…HUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $295,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY…HUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $250,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY…+1 more: $25,000 · AnimalsTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $3,100,000 · InternationalTHE WOMEN'S B…Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,075,000 · HealthVanderbilt U…QUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $450,000 · HealthQUEEN OF PEA…STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $320,000 · HealthSTARKLOFF DI…ACCESS ACADEMIES: $1,200,000 · EducationHOPE ONLINE LEARNING ACADEMY CO-OP: $125,000 · EducationDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $850,000 · Science & Tech
Other$9,284,325Human Services$4,650,000Animals$3,270,000International$3,100,000Health$2,845,000Education$1,325,000Science & Tech$850,000

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 budgetFOCUS MARINES FOUNDATION: $3,500,000 over 7y, 57% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $3,100,000 over 7y, 52% of budgetGRAYSON-JOCKEY CLUB RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,700,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,075,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARAQUAD INC: $1,750,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $1,253,325 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetACCESS ACADEMIES: $1,200,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetFERN HOUSE INC: $850,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $850,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetQUEEN OF PEACE CENTER: $450,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSTARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE: $320,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS: $295,000 over 7y, 35% of budgetTHE LITTLE BIT FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $250,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSARATOGA WARHORSE FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetHOPE ONLINE LEARNING ACADEMY CO-OP: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE: $75,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE MAGIC HOUSE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOME SWEET HOME: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEquine Rescue and Adoption Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.7% 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 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 ↗

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.

Graybar FoundationWashington UniversitySt Louis Community Fo…Jordan Mary R & Ettie…Pershing Charitable T…TsfUnited Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…The Blackbaud Giving …Edward Jones Foundati…Shell USA Company Fou…The Bank of America C…
Graybar FoundationMO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Adele Braun Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adele Braun Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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