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Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitney
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pepperdine University | $250,000 |
| Three Thirty Three Arts | $64,600 |
| Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc | $57,000 |
| Variety Boys and Girls Club | $40,000 |
| Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment | $35,200 |
| Camping & Education Foundation | $32,000 |
| Friends for Las Vegas Metropolitan | $27,814 |
| Todos Santos Business Association Arts | $27,500 |
| Aguilas Centro Familiar Cristiano | $26,200 |
| Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer | $25,000 |
| Israeli-American Council | $25,000 |
| Discovery Childrens Museum | $20,420 |
| Variety the Childrens Charity of | $15,760 |
| Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers | $15,000 |
| Cleveland Clinic Foundation | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitney’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +51%
- CFCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +142%
LANDMARK SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2023 · $168k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MODESTO POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $50k
- COCITY OF VACAVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2018 · $38k
- ODOne Drop Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.
To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.
Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…
The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Variety Boys & Girls Club and the most unlike its peers is Dr Miriam & Sheldon G Adelson Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
103 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 103 of the 151 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DR MIRIAM & SHELDON G ADELSON CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER ↗
- Who funds Three Thirty Three Arts ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE WALDORF SCHOOL OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds RHONDA FLEMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Wynn Resorts Foundation · Nevada Community Foundation Inc · Engelstad Family Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · Mgm Resorts Foundation · Vegas Golden Knights Foundation Inc · Windsong Trust · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · The Boyd Family Foundation · The Mel & Ruth Wolzinger Foundation · The Gordon Foundation · Raiders Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitney funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation — 100% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.