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Brakebush Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k30 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOSERV GLOBAL | $246,000 |
| ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN | $243,470 |
| ZETEO COMMUNITY | $210,000 |
| EVERY SHELTER | $200,000 |
| CAMP LUWISOMO | $200,000 |
| CRESCENT LAKE BIBLE CAMP | $200,000 |
| MESSIAH LUTHERAN CHURCH | $194,840 |
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $135,450 |
| GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL | $105,000 |
| CARE NET | $103,000 |
| SHEPERDS COLLEGE | $95,000 |
| BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY | $94,500 |
| LIFE PROMOTIONS | $90,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $70,000 |
| NAVIGATORS | $70,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Brakebush 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. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in WI; read by stated purpose it is 42% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
107 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $482k 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
- GGGOSERV GLOBAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
- ESEvery Shelter Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $380k · revenue +153%
Compassion International Incorporated6× · 2018–2024 · $262k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- JHJUST HOPE INCone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -26% · 47% of their budget
- GWGOOD WORKS STUDIOEMERGENCY FLOORSone grant, 2018 · $100k
- WWYCLIFFEone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To serve Christ by providing expertise, resources, and leadership to help the church make Christian Disciples in foreign lands, and to render assistance to the poor, sick, and needy in our places of service.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Provision international, a world-wide christian ministry of outreach, strives to meet the needs of the earth's less fortunate and downtrodden populace. we are committed to networking resources to serve people in areas of great need.
To share the gospel throughout the world.
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
Passionlife ministries is a global missions initiative to spread the gospel of life and expand the pregnancy help movement among nations plagued by abortion, infanticide and gendercide.
Dualreach furthers the worldwide efforts of the christian church by partnering with other ministries & churches in evangelism ministries.
To proclaim gospel of jesus.
To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.
Our mission is to affirm life through evangelism, education, counseling and practical assistance.
The organization exists to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing support and serving the poor through benevolent assistance, medical services, education, orphan care, church planting, etc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Outreach International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the Bible. 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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 210 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GOSERV GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Camp LuWiSoMo Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE PROMOTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Every Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds HELP FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MOBILITY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds CHILD OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ZETEO COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLESSED PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JUST HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN REVIVAL CHURCH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC ↗
- Who funds Irving Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLS AREA FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds RIOMAC INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE FOOD PANTRY 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: Green Bay Packers Foundation · Church Mutual Insurance Company Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Orphan Grain Train Inc · Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wi · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Servant Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Edward Jones 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 Brakebush 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.
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