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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 FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$3.0MEnvironment$1.5MCivil Rights$440kFood & Nutrition$340kEducation$167kHealth$160kCrime & Legal$76kEmployment$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $310k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $520k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Village Enterprise$100,000
Rocky Mountain Institute$90,000
TechnoServe$70,000
CARE$70,000
International Rescue Committee$70,000
Doctors Without Borders$70,000
Environmental Defense Fund$50,000
Ceres$40,000
Second Harvest Food Bank$30,000
Planned Parenthood$30,000
Feeding Amreica$30,000
Mercy Corp$25,000
World Wildlife Fund$20,000
One Acre Fund$20,000
Room To Read$20,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Prime Coalition: $300k → 8%Shared Hope International: $5k → 9%Shared Hope International: $5k → 9%Parents Helping Parents: $1k → 8%American Red Cross: $30k → 14%American Red Cross: $30k → 14%Sacred Heart Community Services: $40k → 8%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
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
CO
VA
AZ
AR
DC
AL
GA
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.6M · 49 repeat orgs$470k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
17

Total granted

$5.6M
$470k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+3%

Still filing today

88%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • VE
    VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND
    6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +311%
  • TI
    TECHNOSERVE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $440k · revenue +51%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $435k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRIME COALITION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -41%
  • SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +3%
  • SH
    Second Harvest
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
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
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
Pathfinder International

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…

International
3
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
7
Rights and Resources Institute Inc

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…

Environment
8
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services
9
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
10
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
11
Namati Inc

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.…

Crime & Legal
12
Arrow

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $600,000 · InternationalVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUNDTECHNOSERVE INC: $440,000 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $435,150 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $435,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE IN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $435,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCONE ACRE FUND: $155,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND+8 more: $274,000 · International+8 moreRocky Mountain Institute: $410,000 · OtherRocky Mountain InstitutePlanned Parenthood: $180,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodMercy Corp: $155,000 · OtherMercy CorpSecond Harvest Food Bank: $140,000 · OtherSecond Harvest Food BankPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 · OtherNext Door Inc: $60,000 · OtherGLIDE FOUNDATION: $120,000 · OtherGLIDE FOUNDATIONDowntown Streets Inc: $55,000 · Other+24 more: $390,700 · Other+24 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $321,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL…CERES INC: $270,000 · EnvironmentCERES INCWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $135,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIF…PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $30,000 · EnvironmentPRIME COALITION INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $40,000 · Human ServicesBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $21,550 · Human Services+2 more: $11,000 · Human ServicesFeeding America: $240,000 · Food & NutritionSouthern Center for Human Rights: $90,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 · Civil RightsELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $30,000 · Civil RightsGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $7,500 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 · Civil Rights+3 more: $12,000 · Civil RightsROOM TO READ: $155,000 · Education+2 more: $1,500 · Education
International$2,774,150Other$1,585,700Environment$756,000Human Services$432,550Food & Nutrition$240,000Civil Rights$177,000Education$156,500

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 budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $600,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $440,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $435,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $435,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $435,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $410,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $321,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCERES INC: $270,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America: $240,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $90,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPOPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTOSTAN INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNext Door Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMSI US: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPATH: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA RESCUE MISSION: $21,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHESPERIAN HEALTH GUIDES: $12,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONEGOAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNOMI NETWORK INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPFLAG: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT OF PRIDE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS OF PEACE: $2,000 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 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 GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds TOSTAN INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Next Door Inc ↗
  • Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MSI US ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The David and Lucile …ImpactassetsincWellspring Philanthro…Tides FoundationThe William & Flora H…Bright Funds Foundati…John D and Catherine …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…
The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Branson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Branson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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