· Private foundation
Brandon 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION | $22,080 |
| DIXBORO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $13,238 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BUILDING DREAMS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| CHELSEA HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| I UNDERSTAND LOVE HEALS | $2,500 |
| MARINE CORPS RESERVE TOYS FOR TOTS | $2,500 |
| APPALACHIAN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| DIXBORO VILLAGE GREEN | $2,275 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,200 |
| MENDING BROKER HEARTS | $2,000 |
| WORLD VISION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $400k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 12 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2018–2024 · $362k · revenue +9%
- PPPLYMOUTH PARC INC6× · 2017–2022 · $139k · revenue +51%
- UOUniversity of Michigan3× · 2017–2021 · $135k · revenue +202% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- EPELE'S PLACE INCone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -46%
- THTHE HENRY FORD MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $21k
- TPTHE PARADE COMPANY DETROITone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes by conducting or supporting activites exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
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…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Building Dreams Foundation Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 105 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH PARC INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN THANKSGIVING PARADE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PURPLE ROSE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds DAVENPORT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Bridge Bread Bakery ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVING & LEARNING ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chelsea Hockey Association ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project ↗
- Who funds ST MARGARET'S HOSPITAL GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SESAME WORKSHOP ↗
- Who funds Victims First Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD GATHERERS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
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: Dte Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Ford Philanthropy · The Kresge Foundation · Margaret Dunning Foundation · Deroy Testamentary Foundation · Eagles for Children · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation · The Barton Malow Foundation · Frey Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation
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 Brandon 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.