Skip to content
Brandon Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Brandon Family 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.

$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$362kHealth$274kArts & Culture$222kRecreation & Sports$158kReligion$104kEducation$64kYouth Development$48kHuman Services$38kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION$22,080
DIXBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$13,238
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,500
CHELSEA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$2,500
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL$2,500
I UNDERSTAND LOVE HEALS$2,500
BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION$2,500
MARINE CORPS RESERVE TOYS FOR TOTS$2,500
APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT$2,500
DIXBORO VILLAGE GREEN$2,275
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$2,200
MENDING BROKER HEARTS$2,000
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VICTIMS FIRST: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $56k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%BRIDGE BREAD BAKERY: $8k → 21%STRIVE: $250 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $54k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%BRIDGE BREAD BAKERY: $5k → 21%ROSEPETALS INC: $1k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $53k → 14%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 8%BRIDGE BREAD BAKERY: $1k → 21%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $5k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%LIVING AND LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $5k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $5k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $1k → 21%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $1k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 34 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
53

Total granted

$1.1M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+37%

Still filing today

65%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    7× · 2018–2024 · $362k · revenue +9%
  • PP
    PLYMOUTH PARC INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $139k · revenue +51%
  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2017–2021 · $135k · revenue +202% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • EP
    ELE'S PLACE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -46%
  • TH
    THE HENRY FORD MUSEUM
    one grant, 2022 · $21k
  • TP
    THE PARADE COMPANY DETROIT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Business Leaders for Michigan

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

—
2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement
3
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
4
United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee

Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.

Recreation & Sports
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
Mymichigan Health Foundation

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…

Health
8
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
9
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

—
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Building Dreams Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $135,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganDIXBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $95,671 · OtherDIXBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCHAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $43,500 · OtherAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETYIN THE BAND MUSIC APPRECIATION STUDIO: $36,490 · OtherIN THE BAND MUSIC APPRECIATION STUDIOTHE HENRY FORD MUSEUM: $21,000 · OtherTHE PARADE COMPANY DETROIT: $20,000 · OtherSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $18,127 · Other+63 more: $170,284 · Other+63 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $362,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its…Bridge Bread Bakery: $13,500 · Human Services+7 more: $24,600 · Human Services+7 morePLYMOUTH PARC INC: $138,864 · Community ImprovementPLYMOUTH PA…+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $77,080 · Arts & CultureMICHIGAN TH…THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY: $52,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PURPLE …SESAME WORKSHOP: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 · HealthST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD INC: $5,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,000 · HealthI Understand Love Heals: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $2,500 · HealthAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $2,000 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · HealthELE'S PLACE INC: $40,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth DevelopmentDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · EducationGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 · EducationPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $2,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,200 · EducationEDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $650 · Education
Other$540,072Human Services$400,100Community Improvement$139,864Arts & Culture$138,080Health$45,500Youth Development$40,500Education$31,350

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $362,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH PARC INC: $138,864 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $135,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetMICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION: $77,080 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY: $52,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetELE'S PLACE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDAVENPORT UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $14,866 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBridge Bread Bakery: $13,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChelsea Hockey Association: $8,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetYMCA of Metropolitan Detroit: $6,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictims First Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,165 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $3,968 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD GATHERERS: $3,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJackson School of the Arts Assoc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetI Understand Love Heals: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACTIVE FAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM ALLIANCE OF MICHIGAN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosepetals Incorporated: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS KICKING CANCER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMS FIGHT FOR SIGHT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH PARC INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Bridge Bread Bakery ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chelsea Hockey Association ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Victims First Inc ↗
  • Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds CANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗

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.

DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Ford PhilanthropyThe Kresge FoundationMargaret Dunning Foun…Deroy Testamentary Fo…Eagles for ChildrenRaymond James Charita…Children's Hospital o…The Barton Malow Foun…Frey FoundationGrand Rapids Communit…
DTE Energy FoundationMI20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · Margaret Dunning Foundation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Eagles for Children · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Frey Foundation · Grand Rapids Community 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brandon Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brandon Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 105 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Brandon Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home