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Brandenburg Foundation

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.

$486k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$246,500
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$431kYouth Development$157kCrime & Legal$75kEducation$71kRecreation & Sports$11kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Edge Tactical Foundation Inc$75,0002n/a
Julie Billiart School$63,0002n/a
Lake Erie Council Boy Scouts of America Inc$56,00021%
The First Tee of Cleveland$50,00014%
Beat the Streets Cleveland$50,00015%
Sentinel Foundation$10,00010%
Spirit of America Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Business Advisers of Cleveland$10,00016%
Argonaut$7,5001n/a
Transplant House of Cleveland$5,00010%
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All grantees of Brandenburg Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Edge Tactical Foundation Inc$75,0002n/a
Julie Billiart School$63,0002n/a
Lake Erie Council Boy Scouts of America Inc$56,00021%
The First Tee of Cleveland$50,00014%
Beat the Streets Cleveland$50,00015%
Sentinel Foundation$10,00010%
Spirit of America Foundation Inc$10,00012%
Business Advisers of Cleveland$10,00016%
Argonaut$7,5001n/a
Transplant House of Cleveland$5,00010%
Oroc$5,00013%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($422k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brandenburg Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLake Erie Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: $56,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe First Tee of Cleveland: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBeat the Streets Cleveland: $50,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetSentinel Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSpirit of America Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBusiness Advisers of Cleveland: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTransplant House of Cleveland: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOroc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Covia Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Brandenburg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Brandenburg Foundation

How much does Brandenburg Foundation give?
Brandenburg Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $485,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Brandenburg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (56%), Youth Development (21%), Crime & Legal (10%).
Who are Brandenburg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Edge Tactical Foundation Inc ($75k), Julie Billiart School ($63k), Lake Erie Council Boy Scouts of America Inc ($56k).
Does Brandenburg 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 Brandenburg Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Covia Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Brandenburg Foundation based?
Brandenburg Foundation is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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