South Dakota · 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.
- $3.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Branches Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $3.8M | 9% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $3.4M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $3.4M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $2.7M | 6% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $2.5M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $2.9M | 3% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $2.2M | 3% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $2.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compassion International Incorporated | $4,160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| International Justice Mission | $2,857,300 | 8 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,600,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Life Family Services | $2,088,761 | 8 | 11% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $1,350,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Eagle Brook Church | $1,125,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The Dwelling Place | $1,058,267 | 8 | 14% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $635,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Evangelical Free Church of America | $622,000 | 8 | n/a |
| English Language Institute in China | $597,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compassion International Incorporated | $4,160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| International Justice Mission | $2,857,300 | 8 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,600,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Life Family Services | $2,088,761 | 8 | 11% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $1,350,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Eagle Brook Church | $1,125,000 | 8 | n/a |
| The Dwelling Place | $1,058,267 | 8 | 14% |
| Hope Academy Inc | $635,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Evangelical Free Church of America | $622,000 | 8 | n/a |
| English Language Institute in China | $597,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $425,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $365,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Liberty Classical Academy | $357,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Sim USA Incorporated | $320,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Hope Community Church | $305,000 | 8 | n/a |
| University of Northwestern - St Paul | $225,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $196,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Prison Fellowship Ministries | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Children's Shelter of Cebu | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Salvation Army | $120,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Rockpoint Church | $117,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Parable Fund | $107,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Prairie Bridge International | $100,000 | 5 | 42% |
| Africa Inland Mission International Incorporated | $73,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Search Ministries Inc | $62,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Omf International Inc | $42,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Converge | $40,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Manuscript Research Group | $35,000 | 1 | 51% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $32,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Priority Living Inc | $27,300 | 6 | 0% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $23,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends in Action International | $22,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Global Leadership Network | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Calvary Baptist Church | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethlehem Baptist Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| North Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Institute of Chinese Studies | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Source Mn Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Frontier Faith Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Apologist Project | $3,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Amplify Mission Network | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hospitality Center for Chinese | $3,000 | 5 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Branches Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Branches Foundation
- How much does Branches Foundation give?
- Branches Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $3,813,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Branches Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (43%), Human Services (24%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Branches Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Compassion International Incorporated ($4.2M), International Justice Mission ($2.9M), Samaritan's Purse ($2.6M).
- Does Branches Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Branches Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Branches Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation Inc, The Minneapolis Foundation, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Branches Foundation based?
- Branches Foundation is based in SD.
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