· Private foundation
Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of BARRY AND MARCI BRANDT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FUND OF JO DAVIESS CTY | $25,000 |
| CAMP WOJTYLA | $25,000 |
| BRECK OUTDOOR ED CENTER | $10,000 |
| PATRIS CORDE HERMITAGE | $10,000 |
| THE CATHEDRAL OF ST BERNARD | $10,000 |
| ST MARY CATHOLIC CHARTIES | $7,500 |
| ST JOHNS THE EVANEGELIST - NAPLES | $7,500 |
| DIOCESE OF MADISON | $7,500 |
| NMDP FOUNDATION (NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM) | $5,000 |
| HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAMP GRAY | $5,000 |
| WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| DIOCESE OF VENICE | $5,000 |
| CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- UFUW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $61k · revenue +7%
- CWCamp Wojtyla Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +28%
- SHSUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISONone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -29%
- FFForward Foundation Incone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -12%
FRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +19%
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.
Clement manor is a healthcare organization sponsored by the school sisters of st. francis that is committed to providing a continuum of care and fostering the highest potential for well being of each individual on our campuses and in our…
Wisconsin hero outdoors connects veterans, first responders and their families to integrated "nature based outdoor therapies". 2024 who expanded its program offerings to include beekeeping and apiary management.
The management and general maintenance of a cemetery or cemeteries in or near the city of racine, wisconsin, for the use and benefit of such members of the roman catholic congregations of said city and county of racine as may acquire…
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…
The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Our mission is to provide better healthcare for the rural communities in northeastern minnesota and northwestern wisconsin. through empowerment and collaboration with independent health providers, wilderness health is able to help meet the…
Continously improving the health of our community.
By providing services to the poor, the sick and the elderly with a sense of compassion and love, st. camillus offers hope and meaning to those who are suffering, comfort and security to those who are aging, and serenity to those who are…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc Diocese of Madison and the most unlike its peers is The James Beard Foundation Inc. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 43 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 UW-WHITEWATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Wojtyla Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP GRAY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC DIOCESE OF MADISON ↗
- Who funds Forward Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN PEACEMAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds PATRIS CORDE HERMITAGE ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT AMBROSE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Mountain Club Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR EXPEDITIONS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS COMMANDOS ↗
- Who funds ICE AGE TRAIL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARROW DONOR PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GOD IS FAITHFUL TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE COOPERATING TO HELP OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT 1649 INC ↗
- Who funds SUPERIOR HIKING TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE COALITION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ART ASSOCIATION 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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · William J Cronin Foundation · Kennedy Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Barry and Marci Brandt Family Foundation Inc 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.