How much does Brides for a Cause give?

Brides for a Cause reported 52 itemized grants totaling $550,000, out of $703,866 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Brides for a Cause fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (21%), Youth Development (16%).

Who are Brides for a Cause's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Brides Across America Inc ATTN Heidi Janson ($120k), The Princess Project ($120k), Joyful Heart Foundation ($90k).

Does Brides for a Cause fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Brides for a Cause?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, The Norcliffe Foundation.

Where is Brides for a Cause based?

Brides for a Cause is based in OR.

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Oregon · Public charity

Brides for a Cause

To provide financial assistance for women-focused charities by collecting and reselling donated wedding gowns and accessories.

$704k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 52
Itemized grants FY2024: 44
Organizations funded FY2023: 11%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $550k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $40,000
Organizations funded a year: 10 to 44; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 12
Total assets, FY2024: $3.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Brides for a Cause funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	51	$540k	18%
FY2023	44	$490k	11%
FY2022	39	$440k	41%
FY2021	22	$220k	5%
FY2020	13	$165k	8%
FY2019	24	$350k	38%
FY2018	15	$175k	33%
FY2017	10	$120k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$610kHealth$540kYouth Development$415kCivil Rights$325kHousing & Shelter$230kEmployment$170kPhilanthropy$80kEducation$70kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Brides Across America Inc ATTN Heidi Janson	$120,000	8	21%
The Princess Project	$120,000	3	80%
Joyful Heart Foundation	$90,000	5	2%
Abbys Closet Inc	$90,000	8	22%
Bradley Angle	$80,000	8	0%
Charitable Partnership Fund	$80,000	8	1%
She's the First Inc	$75,000	6	1%
Cocoon House	$70,000	7	0%
Every Mother Counts	$70,000	6	0%
Fighting Pretty Inc	$70,000	7	8%

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All grantees of Brides for a Cause by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Brides Across America Inc ATTN Heidi Janson	$120,000	8	21%
The Princess Project	$120,000	3	80%
Joyful Heart Foundation	$90,000	5	2%
Abbys Closet Inc	$90,000	8	22%
Bradley Angle	$80,000	8	0%
Charitable Partnership Fund	$80,000	8	1%
She's the First Inc	$75,000	6	1%
Cocoon House	$70,000	7	0%
Every Mother Counts	$70,000	6	0%
Fighting Pretty Inc	$70,000	7	8%
Dress for Success Oregon	$70,000	7	2%
Wish Upon a Wedding	$70,000	4	16%
Baby Quest Foundation Inc	$70,000	7	4%
Young Women Empowered	$70,000	7	1%
Dress for Success Seattle	$70,000	7	2%
Dressember Foundation	$65,000	5	1%
American Association of University Women Inc	$60,000	5	0%
Mary's Place Seattle	$60,000	6	0%
Ruby Room	$60,000	6	29%
Girls Who Code Inc	$60,000	5	0%
The Loveland Foundation Inc	$60,000	5	0%
Peoria Home	$50,000	5	8%
Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest	$50,000	5	1%
Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future	$40,000	4	0%
Pink Lemonade Project	$40,000	4	4%
Woman of Wonder	$40,000	4	54%
National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease Inc	$40,000	3	1%
Wellspring Women's Center	$40,000	4	1%
American Heart Association Inc	$40,000	3	0%
American Lung Association	$30,000	2	0%
Global Fund for Women Inc	$30,000	3	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$30,000	2	0%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc	$30,000	3	0%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc	$30,000	3	0%
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Running Start	$30,000	3	1%
Vow for Girls Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Equality Now Inc	$30,000	3	0%
National Women's Health Network	$30,000	3	0%
She Should Run	$30,000	3	1%
Ladies Who Launch Inc	$30,000	3	6%
Girls on the Run International Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Weave Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Women Deliver Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Bright Pink Nfp	$20,000	2	1%
Rose Haven Cic	$20,000	2	0%
Jubilee Women's Center	$10,000	1	1%
International Justice Mission	$10,000	1	0%
Too Young to Wed Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Sister League of San Diego Inc	$10,000	1	10%
Freedom Network USA Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Days For Girls International	$10,000	1	0%
Period Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Catherine Place	$10,000	1	5%
Generatehope Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Lodi House	$10,000	1	1%

Brides for a Cause supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 56.

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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.

Umpqua Bank Charitable FoundationOR20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · The Holzman Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Tides Foundation · Novo Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Oregon Community Foundation · Ellison Foundation · Harvest 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.

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About Brides for a Cause

How much does Brides for a Cause give?: Brides for a Cause reported 52 itemized grants totaling $550,000, out of $703,866 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Brides for a Cause fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Health (21%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are Brides for a Cause's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Brides Across America Inc ATTN Heidi Janson ($120k), The Princess Project ($120k), Joyful Heart Foundation ($90k).
Does Brides for a Cause fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brides for a Cause?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Brides for a Cause based?: Brides for a Cause is based in OR.