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Bredefeld Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bredefeld Family Foundation Inc

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.

$84k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Animals$227kEducation$59kPublic Benefit$40kInternational$38kReligion$33kHealth$26kRecreation & Sports$25kHuman Services$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TURNING POINT USA$40,000
BICHON RESCUE BRIGADE$20,100
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$10,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$5,000
GHETO RESCUE FUND$2,500
COMMUNITY ACCESS$1,000
BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$1,000
FREEDOM DOGS$1,000
MUTTVILLE$1,000
GOOD NEWS HOMES INC$1,000
HARVEST MINISTRIES$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FREEDOM DOGS: $1k → 11%KIRKLAND FOUNDATION: $5k → 19%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS: $1k → 5%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
NY
NJ
CA
CO
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$340k · 13 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$340k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+7%

Still filing today

69%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BR
    BICHON RESCUE BRIGADE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $124k · revenue +142% · 30% of their budget
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +4%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • ER
    Eastwood Ranch Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -31%
  • RT
    RESCUE TAILZ
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TJ
    THE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
Canine Estates Inc
Animals
2
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
3
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
4
Blue Waters Dog Rescue

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to helping animals in need. Our focus is on rescuing and rehabilitating animals. We provide the full curriculum of care for each dog rescued, This includes: shelter, food, spaying & neutering,…

Animals
5
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
6
Bull Terrier Rescue Mission

The Bull Terrier Rescue Mission (aka BTRM) is an organization of like-minded volunteers committed to protecting the health and welfare of Bull Terriers in need of homes. It extracts them from their unfortunate circumstances, and gives them…

Animals
7
Lovebugs Rescue

Lovebugs rescue is a foster-based animal rescue located in southern california. we began our mission in october 2010 and focus on rescuing dogs from high kill shelters and neglect. we rescue all breeds and all ages. we provide all medical…

Animals
8
Top Dog Foundation Inc
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9
Argos a Shelter Dog Rescue

The purpose of argos, a shelter dog rescue is: to rescue animals from situations that are abusive, endangering, or neglectful. to rescue animals in danger of being euthanized in new mexico shelters/pounds. to provide necessary veterinary…

Animals
10
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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11
War Angel Farms Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc
Animals
12
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harvest Ministries 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

22 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. 22 of the 34 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNING POINT USA INC: $40,000 · OtherTURNING POINT USA INCFRESNO FURRY FRIENDS: $35,000 · OtherFRESNO FURRY FRIENDSOUR LADY OF MALIBU: $28,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF MALIBUBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYRESCUE TAILZ: $10,000 · OtherRESCUE TAILZTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED: $10,000 · OtherTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED+9 more: $31,030 · Other+9 moreBICHON RESCUE BRIGADE: $124,300 · AnimalsBICHON RESCUE BRIGADEEastwood Ranch Foundation: $15,000 · AnimalsEastwood Ranch FoundationPAWS OF WAR INC: $12,500 · AnimalsPAWS OF WAR INCMUTTVILLE: $11,000 · AnimalsMUTTVILLE+1 more: $5,000 · AnimalsPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIV…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $18,500 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER …FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR …JACK BREWER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationJACK BREWER FOU…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $27,500 · ReligionHarvest Ministries Inc: $2,000 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 · HealthGOOD NEWS HOME INC: $3,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $1,000 · HealthKIRKLAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM DOGS: $1,000 · Human ServicesNAVARRO FARM INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$179,530Animals$167,800Education$63,500Religion$29,500Health$19,500Human Services$8,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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 budgetBICHON RESCUE BRIGADE: $124,300 over 5y, 30% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEastwood Ranch Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JAMES STOREHOUSE INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABANDONED TERRIER RESCUE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetKIRKLAND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGhetto Rescue FFoundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJACK BREWER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD NEWS HOME INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHarvest Ministries Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNAVARRO FARM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GREAT EXPECTATIONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACCESS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM DOGS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bredefeld Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bredefeld Family Foundation Inc. 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%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 54%
  • Good News Home Inc: 54% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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How do I get to Bredefeld Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bredefeld Family Foundation Inc 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 34 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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