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Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$683kReligion$405kArts & Culture$285kPhilanthropy$17kHealth$9kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kAnimals$3kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Desert Caballeros Western Museum$20,000
Santa Fe Opera$15,000
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe$10,500
Goodman Theatre$5,000
Lensic Performing Arts Center Corporation$2,600
University of New Mexico Foundation Inc$1,000
Friends of Arizona Public Radio$1,000
Friends of the Santa Fe River$1,000
Arizona State University Foundation$1,000
Robert Morris University$1,000
Baldwin Wallace University$1,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of American Inc$1,000
Scottsdale Museum of the West INC$1,000
Habitat for Humanity International$1,000
Cancer Connection Inc$750
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Desert Caballeros Western Museum: $21k → 11%Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $5k → 8%Stanford University: $50k → 8%First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe: $23k → 12%Fourth Presbyterian Church: $50k → 14%Princeton Theological Seminary: $40k → 11%Johns Hopkins University: $100k → 19%Desert Caballeros Western Museum: $20k → 11%Stanford University: $50k → 8%Presbyterian Church USA: $11k → 12%Fourth Presbyterian Church: $40k → 14%Princeton Theological Seminary: $37k → 11%John Hopkins University: $50k → 19%Desert Caballeros Western Museum: $19k → 11%Stanford University: $50k → 8%Presbyterian Church USA: $11k → 12%Fourth Presbyterian Church: $30k → 14%Princeton Theological Seminary: $33k → 11%Desert Caballeros Western Museum: $18k → 11%Stanford University: $50k → 8%First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe: $11k → 12%Fourth Presbyterian Church: $30k → 14%Princeton Theological Seminary: $30k → 11%Desert Caballeros Western Museum: $18k → 11%Stanford University: $50k → 8%First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe: $11k → 12%Fourth Presbyterian Church: $20k → 14%Princeton Theological Seminary: $10k → 11%Desert Caballeros Western Museum: $17k → 11%Stanford University: $50k → 8%Presbyterian Church USA: $11k → 12%Desert Caballeros Western Museum: $15k → 11%Stanford University: $50k → 8%First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe: $10k → 12%Goodman Theatre: $10k → 14%Stanford University - Graduate School of Business: $25k → 8%Stanford University - Graduate School of Business: $25k → 8%Stanford University - Graduate School of Business: $25k → 8%Stanford University - Graduate School of Business: $25k → 8%Stanford University - Graduate School of Business: $25k → 8%Stanford University - Graduate School of Business: $8k → 8%Stanford University - Graduate School of Business: $8k → 8%Santa Fe Opera: $15k → 12%Santa Fe Opera: $10k → 12%Santa Fe Opera: $10k → 12%Santa Fe Opera: $10k → 12%Santa Fe Opera: $10k → 12%Santa Fe Opera: $10k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$743k · 21 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
8

Total granted

$743k
$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+42%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalPhilanthropyPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • DC
    DESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue ×17
  • TS
    THE SANTA FE OPERA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $65k · revenue +38%
  • CT
    CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +42%
  • JH
    John Hopkins University
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AM
    AMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +144%
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
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
6
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
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
9
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
University of Arizona Foundation

The university of arizona foundation is committed to supporting and enhancing the vision, mission and values of the university of arizona through the development and management of private support.

Education
12
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Santa Fe Opera; the most unlike its peers is 10-90 Copperstate Foundation. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $491,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIO…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+4 more: $37,000 · Education+4 moreFourth Presbyterian Church: $170,000 · OtherFourth Presbyterian ChurchPRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $149,000 · OtherPRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUM: $132,500 · OtherDESERT CABALLEROS WESTERN MUSEUMFirst Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe: $54,000 · OtherFirst Presbyterian Church of Santa FeJohn Hopkins University: $50,000 · OtherJohn Hopkins UniversityAZTEC PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $31,500 · Other+11 more: $28,000 · OtherTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $65,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA …CHICAGO THEATRE GROUP INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO TH…SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC: $16,000 · Arts & CultureSCOTTSDALE…Phoenix Men's Arts Council: $5,750 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureGoing To The Sun Rally: $17,000 · PhilanthropyLENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $7,600 · Philanthropy10-90 COPPERSTATE FOUNDATION: $8,500 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICAN MEDICAL WOMENS ASSOCIATIONINC: $5,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 · HealthCANCER CONNECTION INC: $750 · HealthESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 · Animals
Education$628,000Other$615,000Arts & Culture$134,750Philanthropy$24,600Public Safety & Disaster$8,500Health$7,750Animals$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $491,000 over 7y, 0.0% of 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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CONNECTION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christine and Paul Branstad Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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 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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