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Brees Dream Foundation

Improving the quality of life for cancer patients.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$725k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Food & Nutrition$3.3MHealth$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.8MInternational$1.4MEducation$1.3MYouth Development$727kHuman Services$640kRecreation & Sports$435kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $174k
  • $250k+2 grants · $975k
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$733k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILD STRONG ACADEMY$724,890
BASTION COMMUNITY$250,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$173,593
PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$25,000
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 (FY17–20, $719k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE HUGS PROJECT INC: $62k → 16%HOMETOWN HEROES INC: $13k → 6%HOPE 2 OTHERS: $25k → 10%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS INC: $42k → 12%HANDS OF HOPE ADOPTION AND ORPHAN CARE MINISTRY: $6k → 5%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $13k → 12%FELEGE HIYWOT CENTER INC: $5k → 16%GIVING HOPE: $50k → 23%THE HUGS PROJECT INC: $25k → 16%HOPE 2 OTHERS: $23k → 10%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS INC: $21k → 12%SAFE PASSAGE INC: $10k → 12%GIVING HOPE INC: $11k → 23%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%LITTLE LAMBS FOUNDATION FOR KIDS INC: $12k → 12%BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $250k → 23%FRIENDS OF SCOTT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRIENDS OF SCOTT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRIENDS OF SCOTT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%FRIENDS OF SCOTT FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC: $18k → 16%LITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 16%RAINTREE SERVICES INC: $6k → 23%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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Brees Dream Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brees Dream Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 31 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
84

Total granted

$11M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+47%

Still filing today

97%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalOther
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

  • Feeding America
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3.0M · revenue +40%
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +13%
  • OC
    OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.3M · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • AS
    ACE SCHOLARSHIPS LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2017 · $750k
  • DC
    DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +156%
  • BD
    BAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +4%
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
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
2
Renew - Reinventing Education

The renew charter management organization will transform underperforming schools into academically rigorous schools that prepare students for the next level of achievement, including high school, college, and career.

Education
3
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools

Rethink's mission is to support black youth in becoming thoughtful leaders, capable of critically rethinking their experiences, and taking action to create and sustain transformative systemic change.

Youth Development
4
Enroll Indy Inc

Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…

Education
5
Kipp of New Orleans Inc

Kipp new orleans helps our students, their families, and our city build a brighter future by building academic powerhouses filled with caring and talented educators who unleash unlimited opportunities for students so that they are prepared…

Education
6
Foundation for Louisiana

Foundation for louisiana is the people's foundation. we expand opportunity and wellbeing across the state by investing in local leadership and community-driven solutions to strengthen the conditions that help every louisianan live a safe,…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Youthforce Nola

Youthforce nola fuels a movement that equips young people to graduate high school on a path to career success.

Education
8
Girls on the Run of New Orleans

We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Youth Development
9
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter
10
Ednavigator Inc

Ednavigator works to ensure every child, especially those facing systemic barriers, has access to the educational opportunities and services they need to thrive.

Education
11
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…

Health
12
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago

Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Pobunited. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 117 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/100
Grantees still filing
66/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Feeding America: $3,040,011 · Food & NutritionFeeding AmericaHUNGER FIGHT INC: $113,349 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $25,500 · Food & NutritionFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $2,492,300 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR EDUCAT…JUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $202,500 · PhilanthropyJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUND…+6 more: $151,210 · PhilanthropyOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,286,917 · HealthOCHSNER CLINIC FOU…MIRACLE LEAGUE NORTHSHORE: $100,000 · Health+4 more: $40,018 · HealthACE SCHOLARSHIPS LOUISIANA: $750,000 · OtherACE SCHOLARSHIPS LOUISIANADELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONTRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $175,000 · OtherWALK-ONS INC: $168,422 · OtherLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $450,000 · OtherLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDA…BASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $250,000 · OtherBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIEN…Audubon Nature Institute Inc: $200,000 · Other+61 more: $1,764,407 · Other+61 moreJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $1,122,074 · InternationalJunior Ach…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $173,593 · InternationalJUNIOR ACH…CONVOY OF HOPE: $75,000 · International+4 more: $51,202 · InternationalBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Human ServicesTHE HUGS PROJECT INCORPORATED: $93,650 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SCOTT FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Human ServicesLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc: $74,300 · Human ServicesGiving Hope Inc: $60,000 · Human ServicesHOPE 2 OTHERS: $48,425 · Human ServicesLITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $24,876 · Human Services+7 more: $75,096 · Human ServicesPurdue Research Foundation: $200,000 · EducationADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $200,000 · EducationWARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $37,500 · EducationALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $37,500 · EducationLIFT EASTBROOK AFTERSCHOOL INC: $21,100 · Education+4 more: $34,500 · Education
Food & Nutrition$3,178,860Philanthropy$2,846,010Health$2,426,935Other$4,007,829International$1,421,869Human Services$731,347Education$530,600

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 budgetFeeding America: $3,040,011 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $2,492,300 over 3y, 25% of budgetOCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION: $2,286,917 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Greater New Orleans Inc: $1,122,074 over 7y, 12% of budgetLAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA: $450,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBAYOU DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJUST KEEP LIVIN FOUNDATION: $202,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $200,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $173,593 over 1y, 53% of budgetMIRACLE LEAGUE NORTHSHORE: $100,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLOUISIANA CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDresses For Orphans Inc: $95,300 over 3y, 72% of budgetTHE HUGS PROJECT INCORPORATED: $93,650 over 3y, 69% of budgetGREEN OUR PLANET: $91,900 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPOBUNITED: $80,500 over 1y, 33% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoots of Music Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetLittle Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc: $74,300 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetGirls Nite In International Inc: $68,275 over 2y, 20% of budgetWORLD BASEBALL ACADEMY INC: $64,670 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGiving Hope Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEHOVAH JIREH INC D/B/A EMPOWERFIRST: $58,400 over 1y, 54% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC: $53,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ELLEN FUND: $41,507 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWARREN EASTON HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC DBA WARREN EASTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALGIERS CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNOLA Tree Project: $36,700 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetMAKE MUSIC NOLA: $30,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetDR JAMES E ALBRECHT FREE CLINIC INC: $25,325 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetELEVATE NEW ORLEANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLITTLE WISH FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetGRANDMAS HOUSE - A VISION OF HOPE: $25,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CARLSBAD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $24,876 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Orleans College Preparatory Academie: $23,388 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $23,267 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $22,196 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS: $21,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $19,127 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShepherd Community Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

The Greater New Orlea…Central Indiana Commu…The Indianapolis Foun…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…Lilly Endowment IncThe Almar Foundationd…Baptist Community Min…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…New Orleans Community…Goldring Family Found…Hamilton County Commu…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA33.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Almar Foundationdba The Alden and Margaret Laborde Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Hamilton County Community 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 Brees Dream Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brees Dream Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to Brees Dream Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brees Dream 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 117 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 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home