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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.

$813k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$2.6MArts & Culture$897kHealth$852kYouth Development$392kPhilanthropy$366kRecreation & Sports$350kPublic Safety & Disaster$320kHuman Services$271kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$7,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Israeli-American Council$25,000
Candlelighters for Childhood Cancer$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mount Olivet Rolling Acres Inc: $6k → 5%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF HEMACINTO: $500 → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $5k → 5%FRASER: $3k → 11%MOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $5k → 5%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $1k → 14%Israeli-American Council: $25k → 14%Israeli-American Council: $25k → 14%Israeli-American Council: $25k → 14%Israeli-American Council: $25k → 14%Children of the Night: $1k → 14%ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $8k → 14%Israeli-American Council: $5k → 14%PROJECT 150: $5k → 13%GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS OM INC: $10k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONERS OM INC: $2k → 13%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
GA
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.
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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 Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitney’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitneylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.0M · 69 repeat orgs$462k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
66

Total granted

$6.0M
$394k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +51%
  • CF
    CANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +142%
  • LANDMARK SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $168k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF MODESTO POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • CO
    CITY OF VACAVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $38k
  • OD
    One Drop Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
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
University of Southern California

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…

Education
2
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health
3
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

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.

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4
Alliance for Childhood Diseases

To advance cures and treatment of childhood cancer and other rare diseases.

Health
5
Roseman University of Health Sciences

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…

Education
6
Alexander Dawson Foundation

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…

Education
7
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
8
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
9
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
10
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

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,…

Health
11
Prostate Cancer Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Variety Boys & Girls Club; 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.
05the grantee network

103 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. 103 of the 151 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/103
Grantees still filing
69/103
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $2,293,300 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $167,650 · EducationLANDMARK SCHOOL INC+10 more: $62,500 · EducationUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas: $411,110 · OtherUniversity of Nevada Las VegasVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF: $190,101 · OtherVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OFVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $166,000 · OtherVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBFriends for Las Vegas Metropolitan: $150,662 · OtherFriends for Las Vegas MetropolitanLos Angeles Sports & Entertainment: $138,450 · OtherLos Angeles Sports & EntertainmentCITY OF CONCORD POLICE DEPARTMENT: $136,700 · OtherCITY OF CONCORD POLICE DEPARTMENTTHE WALDORF SCHOOL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $89,945 · Other+83 more: $1,192,550 · Other+83 moreCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $183,000 · HealthWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $133,384 · HealthASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $30,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $27,500 · HealthOPTIONS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Health+11 more: $67,215 · HealthDR MIRIAM & SHELDON G ADELSON CHARITABLE TRUST: $206,460 · PhilanthropyVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $154,000 · PhilanthropyOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · PhilanthropySHERIFF'S CHARITIES INC: $17,500 · Philanthropy+7 more: $37,900 · PhilanthropyThree Thirty Three Arts: $171,200 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $67,260 · Arts & CultureNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $40,600 · Arts & CultureASPEN FILM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN ART MUSEUM: $16,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute: $12,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $23,000 · Arts & CultureISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $112,500 · Human ServicesMOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $16,450 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $12,000 · Human Services+6 more: $19,000 · Human ServicesCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Membership Benefit
Education$2,523,450Other$2,475,518Health$512,099Philanthropy$455,860Arts & Culture$373,060Human Services$159,950Membership Benefit$65,000

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 budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $2,293,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDR MIRIAM & SHELDON G ADELSON CHARITABLE TRUST: $206,460 over 6y, 13% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER: $183,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetThree Thirty Three Arts: $171,200 over 3y, 28% of budgetLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $167,650 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $166,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetVEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $154,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $133,384 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $112,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WALDORF SCHOOL OF ORANGE COUNTY: $89,945 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $67,260 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER: $50,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetRHONDA FLEMING FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEVADA BALLET THEATRE INC: $40,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOPPORTUNITY VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $32,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN FILM: $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $25,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetOPTIONS FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOne Drop Foundation Inc: $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHERIFF'S CHARITIES INC: $17,500 over 7y, 35% of budgetTHE SHADE TREE INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT OLIVET ROLLING ACRES INC: $16,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RECOVERY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDSHIP CONNECTION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCONTRA COSTA MIDRASHA: $15,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $14,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute: $12,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BAY GOLF FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBEHIND THE BLUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEARNING WITH A DIFFERENCE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTS & LEARNING CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAPPHIRE FOUNDATION FOR PROSTATE CANCER: $8,200 over 2y, 3.1% 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.

  • 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 CAMPING AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
  • Who funds RHONDA FLEMING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN VALLEY HOSPITAL 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 ↗

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.

Wynn Resorts Foundati…Nevada Community Foun…Engelstad Family Foun…United Way of Souther…Mgm Resorts FoundationVegas Golden Knights …Windsong TrustNV Energy Charitable …The Boyd Family Found…The Mel & Ruth Wolzin…The Gordon FoundationRaiders Foundation
Wynn Resorts FoundationNV40.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitney funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brenden Mann Foundation Co Dorsey & Whitney. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 151 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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