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Brett D Begemann Fdn at a glance

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Brett D Begemann Fdn

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.

$460k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.0MFood & Nutrition$560kArts & Culture$285kHuman Services$230kPhilanthropy$168kHealth$120kRecreation & Sports$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$150,000
DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER$75,000
NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION INC$50,000
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$50,000
KIDSMART$40,000
GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION$35,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC$25,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH$25,000
CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $60k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $50k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $35k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $35k → 21%GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $50k → 21%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 11 repeat orgs$135k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$2.5M
$135k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+10%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesScience & TechYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NF
    National FFA Foundation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $230k · revenue +129%
  • OF
    OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $165k · revenue +7%
  • DD
    DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER
    4× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • KT
    KIDS-SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • KT
    KIDSMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +10%
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 George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
2
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
12
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Food Search Inc; the most unlike its peers is Washington University. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $755,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURICURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $285,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIIndividual grant recipient: $140,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHUNTINGTON DISEASE SOCIETY: $85,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON DISEASE SOCIETYKIDS-SMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING: $50,000 · OtherKIDSMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING: $50,000 · Other+1 more: $35,000 · OtherGUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $230,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN A…National FFA Foundation Inc: $230,000 · Youth DevelopmentNational F…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationWASHINGTON…KIDSMART INC: $80,000 · EducationKIDSMART I…UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $168,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $165,000 · Food & NutritionDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $165,000 · Science & Tech
Other$1,400,000Human Services$230,000Youth Development$230,000Education$230,000Philanthropy$168,000Food & Nutrition$165,000Science & Tech$165,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $230,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNational FFA Foundation Inc: $230,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $168,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $165,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $165,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSMART INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC: $35,000 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.

  • Who funds GUARDIAN ANGEL SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KIDSMART INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brett D Begemann Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brett D Begemann Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 14 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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