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Brush Family Foundation
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $206k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $450,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,000 |
| PIEDMONT COMMUNITY CHURCH MUSIC PROGRAM | $118,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION | $88,000 |
| BETA THETA PI FDN | $40,000 |
| OAKTREE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PBF - PONY BARNES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AAEP | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC UNION CLUB | $25,000 |
| BETA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ST PERPETUA SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| OMPA | $10,000 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 64% 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 16 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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $115k · revenue +156%- BTBETA THETA PI FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +90%
- PEPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- BRBETA RHO ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- PRPIEDMONT RECREATION FOUNDATION ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2022 · $4k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…
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.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pathways Foundation. 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 34 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) — 0% 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.
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 93 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 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OAKTREE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC UNION CLUB ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEKIDS ↗
- Who funds BETA RHO ALUMNI ASSN ↗
- Who funds NEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SUNBEAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP COUNCIL SAN MATEO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRIVE FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLS FOR JUSTICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alive and Free ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Brush Family Foundation 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.
- Oregon Contemporary Theatre — 5% of income from government
- Greenhill Humane Society Spca — 1% 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.
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