Wisconsin · Private foundation
Brand Family 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,027,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Brand Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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 | 7 | $1.5M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $893k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $1.0M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $2.0M | 71% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $90k | 64% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $431k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $7,368,200 | 9 | 0% |
| The Varsity Collective Charitable Fund Inc | $460,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Community Work Services Inc | $250,800 | 2 | 18% |
| Madison Children's Museum Inc | $250,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Palmer Trinity Private School Inc | $120,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Centro Hispano Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Attic Angel Association | $100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Champions4kids Inc | $55,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Madison Rotary Foundation | $51,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Balance and Believe Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brand Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Madison Community Foundation · The Evjue Foundation Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Steinhauer Charitable Foundation · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
About Brand Family Foundation
- How much does Brand Family Foundation give?
- Brand Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,505,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brand Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Recreation & Sports (5%), Arts & Culture (3%).
- Who are Brand Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($7.4M), The Varsity Collective Charitable Fund Inc ($460k), Community Work Services Inc ($251k).
- Does Brand Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brand Family 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 Brand Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Madison Community Foundation, The Evjue Foundation Inc, Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc.
- Where is Brand Family Foundation based?
- Brand Family Foundation is based in WI.
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