· Private foundation
Brandt 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| ORPHANS OF THE STORM | $43,500 |
| OAKTON COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| PARKINSONS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER | $20,000 |
| CANCER WELLNESS CENTER | $15,500 |
| PAWS CHICAGO | $15,000 |
| NORTHFIELD FOOD PANTRY | $13,461 |
| GLENBROOK HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $2,000 |
| BROOKFIELD ZOO | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| ANTI-CRUELTY | $500 |
| HADLEY SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OOORPHANS OF THE STORM8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +187%
- WRWILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +43%
- PCPAWS CHICAGO8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- PFPARKINSON'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k
- UUNICEFone grant, 2017 · $1k
- NMNATIONAL MS SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
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.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The mission of the mspca is to protect animals, relieve their suffering, advance their health and welfare, prevent cruelty and work for a just and compassionate society.
The hawaiian humane society works to improve the welfare of animals through animal care, education, legislation, and prevention on the island of oahu. its mission is to promote the human-animal bond and the humane treatment of all animals.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ORPHANS OF THE STORM ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ANIMAL SHELTER NFP ↗
- Who funds CANCER WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds Glenbrook High School Foundation ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STEVENS POINT ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brandt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brandt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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