· Private foundation
Branson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $520k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Village Enterprise | $100,000 |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $90,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $70,000 |
| International Rescue Committee | $70,000 |
| CARE | $70,000 |
| TechnoServe | $70,000 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $50,000 |
| Ceres | $40,000 |
| Planned Parenthood | $30,000 |
| Feeding Amreica | $30,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $30,000 |
| Mercy Corp | $25,000 |
| One Acre Fund | $20,000 |
| Room To Read | $20,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $411k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- VEVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +311%
- TITECHNOSERVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $440k · revenue +51%
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2020–2025 · $435k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- PCPRIME COALITION INCone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -41%
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICEone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +3%- SHSecond Harvestone grant, 2020 · $35k
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Rri's mission is to support local communities and indigenous peoples' struggles against poverty and marginalization by promoting greater global commitment and action towards policy, market, and legal reforms that secure their rights to…
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…
To make grants to charitable organizations and programs that support the achievement of sexual and reproductive health (srh) of the poor & underprivileged women and others in the asia-pacific and elsewhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Next Door Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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. 55 of the 68 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 VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Rocky Mountain Institute ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Center for Human Rights ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Next Door Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds TOSTAN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MSI US ↗
- Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community 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 Branson Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders 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.