California · 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.
- $900k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Branson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $890k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $895k | 2% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $870k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $990k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $1.4M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Village Enterprise Fund | $600,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Technoserve Inc | $440,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $435,150 | 6 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $435,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $435,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $410,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $321,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Prime Coalition Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ceres Inc | $270,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $240,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($650k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Branson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Branson Family Foundation
- How much does Branson Family Foundation give?
- Branson Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $900,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Branson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (49%), Environment (25%), Civil Rights (7%).
- Who are Branson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Village Enterprise Fund ($600k), Technoserve Inc ($440k), International Rescue Committee INC ($435k).
- Does Branson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Branson Family 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 Branson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Impactassetsinc, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.
- Where is Branson Family Foundation based?
- Branson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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