· Private foundation
Brandt Foundation Inc
THE FOUNDATION WAS ESTABLISHED TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO COMMUNITIES, FARMS AND FAMILIES WHERE AGRICULTURE IS A VITAL PART OF LIFE.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES | $21,585 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF TAMPA BAY | $21,585 |
| LLCC FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YMCA | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| THE KIND MOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY | $5,000 |
| KUMLER UMC OUTREACH MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON STREET MISSION | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ILLINOIS FFA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $147k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Brandt Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
University of Illinois Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +57%- CCCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +92%
- TKThe Kind Mouse Productions Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $103k · revenue +23%
- IAILLINOIS AMISH HERITAGE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $25k
Feeding Americaone grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
Feeding illinois is a coalition of eight feeding america food banks that provide food to over 2,400 food pantries, soup kitchens, and shelters that feed nearly 1.4 million residents across the entire state of illinois.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The Food Bank of Eastern Michigan's mission is to be the Food Source for people in need. Partnering with organizations to feed the hungry, we advocate and build a community solution to a community problem. By leveraging an abundance of…
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…
To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quality of farm family life by educating and disseminating agricultural information to members and others in such areas as finance, economics and governmental policy.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success, developing a competent and assertive agricultural leadership, increasing the awareness of…
To help feed, educate and advocate for Idaho's hungry through collaborative partnerships to develop efficient solutions that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
With the support of our community, we provide over 90 million meals annually through our network of over 900 member food pantries and programs across thirteen counties, currently reaching over a half million individuals each month with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Food Bank & Services of Plant City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Ffa Alumni Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN LAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IAA Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOOD BANK & SERVICES OF PLANT CITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Kind Mouse Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds Center for Land-Based Learning ↗
- Who funds Abundant Life Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds TAMPA METROPOLITAN AREA YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINDA T OBEIRNE CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds Illinois FFA Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STREET MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Illinois Foundation Future Farmers of America ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Levi Ray & Shoup Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brandt Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tampa Metropolitan Area Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Kind Mouse Productions Inc — 0% of income from government
- Metropolitan Ministries Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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