· Private foundation
Branches 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC | $500,000 |
| DWELLING PLACE | $500,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $400,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $380,000 |
| NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES | $362,000 |
| MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE INC | $250,000 |
| LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| HOPE ACADEMY INC | $150,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $150,000 |
| RURAL CARE FOUNDATION | $134,000 |
| EAGLE BROOK CHURCH | $127,000 |
| GRACE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $112,000 |
| ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA | $71,000 |
| EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA | $67,500 |
| SIM USA INCORPORATED | $66,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Compassion International Incorporated8× · 2018–2025 · $4.2M · revenue +7%- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION8× · 2018–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +88%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2018–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +163%
Funded once
- MRMANUSCRIPT RESEARCH GROUPgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +353% · 51% of their budget
- IEINSPIRED EXHIBIT INCone grant, 2018 · $35k
- FIFRIENDS IN ACTION INTERNATIONALone grant, 2021 · $22k · revenue +3%
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.
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.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
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…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
Manna University is a biblical higher education institution dedicated to educating, equipping, and empowering emerging leaders to change the world.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 45 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
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 51 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 Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds The Dwelling Place ↗
- Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF CEBU ↗
- Who funds PARABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds MANUSCRIPT RESEARCH GROUP ↗
- Who funds PRIORITY LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Minneapolis Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Larson Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Branches 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.