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Breach 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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$5.9MEducation$730kCommunity Improvement$636kAnimals$563kYouth Development$503kArts & Culture$162kEmployment$77kPhilanthropy$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $374k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$2,000,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN$108,000
HARLEM RBI$100,000
TRAIL OF LIGHTS FOUNDATION$89,860
GIRLS WHO INVEST$76,500
HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL$25,000
CARNEGIE HALL$25,000
CMC FOUNDATION$12,500
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION$10,000
SQUASH DRIVE$10,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%PLEDGE TO HUMANITY: $10k → 9%HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN: $30k → 10%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

IL
MI
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
TX
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 11 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$7.3M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-7%

Still filing today

73%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $229k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    3× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +139%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $258k · revenue +0%
  • TA
    THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2021 · $125k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • REWILDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $563k · revenue +243%
  • TC
    TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISEASE DYNAMICS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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2
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
6
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
7
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dell Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

26 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. 26 of the 33 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Michigan: $5,750,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganSEO: $636,000 · OtherSEOTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT: $250,000 · Other+20 more: $677,449 · Other+20 moreREWILD: $563,000 · AnimalsTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 · EducationSQUASHDRIVE: $120,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $258,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRAIL OF LIGHTS FOUNDATION: $89,860 · Arts & CultureTexas Advocacy Project: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHARLEM RBI INC: $125,000 · PhilanthropyGIRLS WHO INVEST INC: $76,500 · Employment
Other$7,313,449Animals$563,000Education$375,000Youth Development$258,000Arts & Culture$149,860Philanthropy$125,000Employment$76,500

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 budgetREWILD: $563,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - AUSTIN: $258,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATHENIAN SCHOOL: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSQUASHDRIVE: $120,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetTRAIL OF LIGHTS FOUNDATION: $89,860 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGIRLS WHO INVEST INC: $76,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUSTON-TILLOTSON UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Advocacy Project: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTEACH WITH AFRICA: $45,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetHELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SEVEN HILLS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Texas Food Bank Inc: $20,017 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPledge to Humanity: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $9,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $8,929 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $6,403 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Community Fede…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Austin Community Foun…The Blackbaud Giving …Silicon Valley Commun…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY16.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 33 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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