How much does Brant Foundation give?

Brant Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $978,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Brant Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Public Benefit (17%), Community Improvement (16%).

Who are Brant Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Common Power Future ($1.3M), Scripps College ($1.0M), Earthjustice ($600k).

Does Brant Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Brant 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 Brant Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Gates Foundation, Inatai Foundation.

Where is Brant Foundation based?

Brant Foundation is based in NY.

Foundation Dossiers

New York · Private foundation

Brant 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.

$979k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 47%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 15 to 37; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 7
Total assets, FY2025: $8.1M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Brant Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCivil RightsEnvironmentEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	37	$979k	57%
FY2024	19	$1.3M	47%
FY2023	28	$798k	61%
FY2022	34	$1.2M	68%
FY2021	37	$779k	54%
FY2020	32	$1.4M	59%
FY2019	15	$852k	73%
FY2018	27	$611k	n/a

94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$2.9MPublic Benefit$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEnvironment$1.1MCivil Rights$267kPhilanthropy$222kArts & Culture$218kHuman Services$128kOther$0

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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Common Power Future	$1,344,250	4	15%
Scripps College	$1,049,000	7	0%
Earthjustice	$600,000	5	0%
Foot Soldiers Park Inc	$100,000	2	5%
Jewish Family Service	$74,000	5	0%
Temple Beth Am	$47,868	5	n/a
Seattle Art Museum	$42,000	7	0%
Women Donors Network	$39,000	4	0%
Ashoka	$30,000	2	0%
Barnard College	$25,000	2	0%

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All grantees of Brant Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Common Power Future	$1,344,250	4	15%
Scripps College	$1,049,000	7	0%
Earthjustice	$600,000	5	0%
Foot Soldiers Park Inc	$100,000	2	5%
Jewish Family Service	$74,000	5	0%
Temple Beth Am	$47,868	5	n/a
Seattle Art Museum	$42,000	7	0%
Women Donors Network	$39,000	4	0%
Ashoka	$30,000	2	0%
Barnard College	$25,000	2	0%
Northwest Film Forum	$25,000	1	2%
Northwest African American Museum	$23,500	3	1%
Humanity Funds	$17,500	2	30%
Holocaust Center For Humanity	$16,500	7	0%
Foundation for African Medicine and Educ	$16,000	2	1%
Asian Counseling and Referral Service	$15,000	2	0%
Rainier Valley Food Bank	$15,000	4	0%
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found	$15,000	1	0%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$15,000	3	0%
Children's Alliance	$15,000	2	0%
Food Lifeline	$11,500	2	0%
Ballard Food Bank	$10,000	2	0%
White Center Community Development Association	$10,000	1	1%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Pro Publica Inc	$10,000	2	0%
University of Washington Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Queer Power Alliance	$9,000	4	2%
Mother Africa	$8,700	3	0%
Na'ah Illahee Fund	$6,000	2	0%
Braided Seeds	$5,000	1	5%
Hedgebrook	$5,000	1	0%
Burien Community Support Network	$5,000	1	n/a
Media Matters for America	$5,000	1	0%
White Center Emergency Food Association White Center Food Bank	$5,000	2	0%
The Seattle Aquarium Society	$5,000	1	n/a
Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force	$5,000	1	0%
Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Aajc Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Woodland Park Zoological Society	$5,000	1	n/a
Casa Latina	$5,000	1	0%
World Central Kitchen Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Pro Se Potential	$5,000	1	2%
The Woodlawn Cemetery	$5,000	1	0%
Predator Defense	$5,000	1	n/a
Villa Comunitaria	$5,000	1	0%
Native Daily Network	$5,000	1	n/a
Amigos de Seattle	$5,000	1	4%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc	$4,000	2	0%
Congregation Emanu-El	$3,900	2	n/a
Pacific Islander Community Association of WA	$3,000	1	0%
Seattle Girls' School	$3,000	1	0%
Wonder of Women International PC	$2,500	1	1%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade	$2,500	2	0%
Highly Hated Foundation	$2,500	1	n/a
Lao Senior Outreach	$2,500	1	3%
Kuow Puget Sound Public Radio	$2,500	2	0%
Rvc Seattle	$2,500	1	0%
Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation	$1,500	1	0%
American University	$1,000	2	0%
Arts Corps	$1,000	1	0%
South Seattle Emerald	$1,000	1	0%
Nurturing Roots	$1,000	1	n/a
Alliance for Gun Responsibility	$1,000	1	0%
Neighborcare Health	$1,000	1	0%
Classical 981	$1,000	1	0%
Hias Inc	$1,000	1	0%
The Academy of American Poets Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Shunpike	$1,000	1	0%
Seattle Public Library Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
Oneamerica	$1,000	1	0%
Somali Youth & Family Club	$1,000	1	0%
Tompkins Conservation	$1,000	1	0%
Maris Place	$1,000	1	n/a
Somali Community Services of Seattle	$1,000	1	1%
Scholar Fund	$1,000	1	0%
Cascade Public Media	$1,000	1	0%
Pike Place Market Foundation	$1,000	1	0%
On the Boards	$400	1	0%
Pacific Crest Trail Association	$150	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.

Brant Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 69.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Seattle FoundationWA63.4× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Gates Foundation · Inatai Foundation · United Way of King County · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Artsfund · Raikes Foundation · Sheng-Yen Lu Foundation · Medina 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.

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About Brant Foundation

How much does Brant Foundation give?: Brant Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $978,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Brant Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Public Benefit (17%), Community Improvement (16%).
Who are Brant Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Common Power Future ($1.3M), Scripps College ($1.0M), Earthjustice ($600k).
Does Brant Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brant 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 Brant Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Gates Foundation, Inatai Foundation.
Where is Brant Foundation based?: Brant Foundation is based in NY.