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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 FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $94k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMON POWER FUTURE$500,000
SCRIPPS COLLEGE$200,000
EARTH JUSTICE$100,000
CAMDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY$25,000
NW AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$10,000
UW CONTINUUM SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
CETI INSTITUTE$10,000
ACLU$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM$10,000
PRO PUBLICA$5,000
CLASSICAL KING PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
UC BERKELEY LAW FUND$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NATL MUS AFRICAN AM HISTORY$5,000
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 (FY18–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $10k → 9%ASIAN COUNSELING & REFERRAL SERVICE: $5k → 9%LAO SENIOR OUTREACH: $3k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $5k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $3k → 9%MOTHER AFRICA: $1k → 9%LGBTQ ALLYSHIP: $5k → 9%SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $5k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%CHILDRENS ALLIANCE WA: $5k → 9%LGBTQ ALLYSHIP: $2k → 9%LGBTQ ALLYSHIP: $2k → 9%LGBTQ ALLYSHIP: $1k → 9%SOMALI COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SEATTLE: $1k → 9%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

ME
NH
WA
NY
OR
IA
CA
VA
MD
DC
LA
AL
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 40 repeat orgs$4.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
86

Total granted

$3.8M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+27%

Still filing today

73%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • CP
    COMMON POWER FUTURE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +132%
  • SC
    Scripps College
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +46%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    5× · 2019–2025 · $600k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCRIPPS COLLEGE-4600 SH BRKB
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • SC
    SCRIPPS COLLEGE-2409 SH BRKB
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • AI
    ASHOKA INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC-803 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CLASS B NEW
    one grant, 2022 · $253k
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
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
2
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
3
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

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4
Seattle Architectural Foundation

The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…

Arts & Culture
5
Working Washington

We are workers, united across different industries to improve our working conditions and our lives. We come together as working people to build power through education, organizing, and enforcement. We work to raise and uphold standards in…

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6
Aclu of Washington Endowment Fund

To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights by supporting the aclu-wa foundation.

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7
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
8
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education
9
Washington Area Community Investment Fund Inc

The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…

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10
Washington Filmworks

To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…

Community Improvement
11
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
12
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Public Library Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Somali Family Safety Task Force Somali Family Safety Task Force. 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

76 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 149 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/76
Grantees still filing
51/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCRIPPS COLLEGE-4600 SH BRKB: $1,000,000 · OtherSCRIPPS COLLEGE-4600 SH BRKBSCRIPPS COLLEGE-2409 SH BRKB: $500,000 · OtherSCRIPPS COLLEGE-2409 SH BRKBASHOKA INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC-803 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CLASS B NEW: $252,837 · OtherASHOKA INNOVATORS FOR THE PUBLIC-803 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CLAS…EARTH JUSTICE-803 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEW: $252,837 · OtherEARTH JUSTICE-803 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEWRE-EVALUATION FOUNDATION-803 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEW: $252,837 · OtherRE-EVALUATION FOUNDATION-803 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEWCOMMON POWER FUTURE - 767 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEW: $251,760 · OtherCOMMON POWER FUTURE - 767 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEWRE-EVALUATION FOUNDATION-872 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEW: $249,305 · OtherRE-EVALUATION FOUNDATION-872 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEWSCRIPPS COLLEGE-767 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEW: $246,744 · OtherSCRIPPS COLLEGE-767 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEWCOMMON POWER - 810 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEW: $245,592 · OtherCOMMON POWER - 810 SH BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY CL B NEW+97 more: $1,178,539 · Other+97 moreCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $1,344,250 · Civil RightsCOMMON POWER FUTUREFOOT SOLDIERS PARK INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsFOOT SOLDIERS PARK IN…+4 more: $33,000 · Civil RightsScripps College: $1,049,000 · EducationScripps College+8 more: $51,000 · EducationEARTHJUSTICE: $600,000 · Environment+4 more: $10,500 · EnvironmentJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $74,000 · Human ServicesASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $15,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Human ServicesQueer Power Alliance: $9,000 · Human ServicesMOTHER AFRICA: $8,700 · Human ServicesSOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $42,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $23,500 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHEDGEBROOK: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $8,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $39,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$4,430,451Civil Rights$1,477,250Education$1,100,000Environment$610,500Human Services$130,200Arts & Culture$114,000Philanthropy$71,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMON POWER FUTURE: $1,344,250 over 4y, 15% of budgetScripps College: $1,049,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $600,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOOT SOLDIERS PARK INC: $100,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $74,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $42,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASHOKA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $23,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANITY FUNDS: $17,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $16,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER VALLEY FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $11,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE CENTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQueer Power Alliance: $9,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMOTHER AFRICA: $8,700 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNa'ah Illahee Fund: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBraided Seeds: $5,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHEDGEBROOK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE CENTER EMERGENCY FOOD ASSOCIATION WHITE CENTER FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE SOMALI FAMILY SAFETY TASK FORCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA LATINA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRO SE POTENTIAL: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE WOODLAWN CEMETERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLA COMUNITARIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMIGOS DE SEATTLE: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Islander Community Association of WA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE GIRLS' SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWONDER OF WOMEN INTERNATIONAL PC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLao Senior Outreach: $2,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO: $2,500 over 2y, 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 COMMON POWER FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds Scripps College ↗
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds FOOT SOLDIERS PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASHOKA ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HUMANITY FUNDS ↗
  • Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AFRICAN MEDICINE AND EDUC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN COUNSELING AND REFERRAL SERVICE ↗

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 FoundationGates FoundationInatai FoundationUnited Way of King Co…The Norcliffe Foundat…The Bullitt FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…ArtsfundRaikes FoundationSheng-Yen Lu Foundati…Medina Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Brant Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brant Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 149 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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