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Brashares Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$11k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$707
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,194
Organizations funded a year
5 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$81k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Brashares Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$11k43%
FY202312$6k67%
FY20225$8k20%
FY20216$5k33%
FY20206$4k33%
FY201913$15k54%
FY201817$12k47%
FY201714$37kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$64kRecreation & Sports$12kPhilanthropy$9kYouth Development$7kArts & Culture$5kEducation$745Crime & Legal$605Food & Nutrition$450Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OR
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
TN
SC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brashares Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColumbus Downtown Quarterback Club: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetImpact60 Inc: $1,407 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSandusky State Theatre Inc: $918 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoap Project Save Our Adolescents From Prostitution: $605 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMightycause Charitable Foundation: $535 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Ohio Railway Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $440 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $382 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAvalon Healing Center: $275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $206 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buckeye Ranch Inc: $203 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGive Kids the World Inc: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVestibular Disorders Association: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCedar Fair Charities Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhio State University Foundation: $45 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 22.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Brashares Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brashares Family 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.

About Brashares Family Foundation

How much does Brashares Family Foundation give?
Brashares Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $10,994 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Brashares Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (64%), Recreation & Sports (12%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Brashares Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Columbus Downtown Quarterback Club ($2k), Impact60 Inc ($1k), Ohio Railway Museum ($1k).
Does Brashares Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brashares 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 Brashares Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Brashares Family Foundation based?
Brashares Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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