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.

Brides for a Cause

Brides for a Cause at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 52 grants below total $550,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $703,866 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $153,866 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE PRINCESS PROJECT	$40,000
ROSE HAVEN	$10,000
RUNNING START	$10,000
VOW FOR GIRLS	$10,000
WOMENHEART	$10,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$10,000
GIRLS INC OF THE PACIFIC NW	$10,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN	$10,000
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION	$10,000
NAT WOMENS HEALTH NETWORK	$10,000
EVERY MOTHER COUNTS	$10,000
CTR FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS	$10,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON	$10,000
EQUALITY NOW	$10,000
WOMAN OF WONDER	$10,000

02The need

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, $950k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.4M · 46 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.4M

$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+136%

Still filing today

98%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

BA
Brides Across America Inc ATTN Heidi Janson
8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +30%
TP
The Princess Project
3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +102% · 80% of their budget
JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION
5× · 2019–2024 · $90k · revenue +52%

Funded once

CP
CATHERINE PLACEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +136%

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.

Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc

Philanthropy

Woman Inc

W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. In all our work, we strive to continually increase our…

Health

The Conversationalist

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World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services

Women Empowering Women

Unclassified

Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy

Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit

Women Achieving Success

Employment

Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit

Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights

Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services

WOMEN4PROGRESS (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress)

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is Running Start. 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

63 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

62/63

Grantees still filing

43/63

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Human Services$1,050,000Health$470,000Youth Development$180,000Other$460,000Education$150,000Philanthropy$110,000Housing & Shelter$110,000

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brides for a Cause funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brides for a Cause. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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