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Christine and Paul Branstad 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.

$63k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 16
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$3.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$63k25%
FY202313$59k15%
FY202216$119k25%
FY202113$58k8%
FY202015$196k47%
FY201911$162k36%
FY201811$133k36%
FY20177$121kn/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.

Education$683kReligion$405kArts & Culture$285kPhilanthropy$17kHealth$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kAnimals$3kEnvironment$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
GA

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Princeton Theological Seminary$149,0004n/a
Desert Caballeros Western Museum$132,50082%
Johns Hopkins University$100,00010%
The Santa Fe Opera$65,00060%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$45,00080%
Aztec Presbyterian Church$31,5003n/a
Going To The Sun Rally$17,00031%
Scottsdale Museum of the West Inc$16,00060%
10-90 Copperstate Foundation$8,50053%
Baldwin Wallace University$8,00080%
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All grantees of Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Princeton Theological Seminary$149,0004n/a
Desert Caballeros Western Museum$132,50082%
Johns Hopkins University$100,00010%
The Santa Fe Opera$65,00060%
Chicago Theatre Group Inc$45,00080%
Aztec Presbyterian Church$31,5003n/a
Going To The Sun Rally$17,00031%
Scottsdale Museum of the West Inc$16,00060%
10-90 Copperstate Foundation$8,50053%
Baldwin Wallace University$8,00080%
Lensic Performing Arts Center$7,60020%
Phoenix Men's Arts Council$5,75023%
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University$5,00050%
American Medical Womens Associationinc$5,00011%
Robert Morris University$5,00050%
University of New Mexico Foundation Inc$4,00040%
Espanola Valley Humane Society$3,00030%
Friends of the Santa Fe River$3,0003n/a
Del E Webb Center for the Performing Arts$3,00010%
Direct Relief$2,50010%
Rebuild New Mexico$2,0002n/a
Champions of Wickenburg Youth$2,0002n/a
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$1,00010%
Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc$1,00010%
National Down Syndrome Society$1,0001n/a
Cancer Connection Inc$75010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($285k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDesert Caballeros Western Museum: $132,500 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Fe Opera: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Theatre Group Inc: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGoing To The Sun Rally: $17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetScottsdale Museum of the West Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budget10-90 Copperstate Foundation: $8,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetBaldwin Wallace University: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLensic Performing Arts Center: $7,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Men's Arts Council: $5,750 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Medical Womens Associationinc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRobert Morris University: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Mexico Foundation Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEspanola Valley Humane Society: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDel E Webb Center for the Performing Arts: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDirect Relief: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Connection Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 21.

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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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA12.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation

How much does Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation give?
Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $63,350 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (48%), Religion (28%), Arts & Culture (20%).
Who are Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Princeton Theological Seminary ($149k), Desert Caballeros Western Museum ($133k), Johns Hopkins University ($100k).
Does Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation based?
Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation is based in IN.

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 36 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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