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Dr Bronners Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$170k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.4MInternational$1.2MReligion$1.0MYouth Development$877kCivil Rights$848kEnvironment$592kArts & Culture$539kHealth$493kOther$0
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$193k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cohere USA$50,000
Myriad USA Inc$50,000
The New York Immigration Coalition$25,000
Chinese Progressive Association$25,000
UPAVIM Community Development Fund$10,000
California Immigrant Policy Center$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Tabitha's Heart: $40k → 7%Casa De Clara Catholic Worker: $5k → 8%Pure Inc: $7k → 8%WELLSPRING: $50k → 6%SDG Impact Fund: $75k → 10%Southeast Immigrant Rights Network: $25k → 13%Tabitha's Heart: $18k → 7%Leah's Pantry: $10k → 11%Wellspring Inc: $50k → 6%Tabitha's Heart: $15k → 7%Jewish Family Service of San Diego: $25k → 11%Women's Refugee Commission Inc: $25k → 17%Wellspring Inc: $50k → 6%Women Watch Afrika: $25k → 14%Tabitha's Heart: $10k → 7%Leah's Pantry: $5k → 11%Choose Love Inc: $10k → 17%Wellspring Inc: $50k → 6%Tabitha's Heart: $10k → 7%Al Otro Lado Inc: $25k → 11%Wellspring Inc: $40k → 6%Tabitha's Heart: $10k → 7%Pillars of the Community: $25k → 11%African Communities Together: $10k → 17%Pillars of the Community: $25k → 11%African Communities Together: $10k → 17%The Alliance: $25k → 9%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project: $25k → 17%US Right to Know: $75k → 10%US Right to Know: $5k → 10%Solutions for Change: $15k → 11%International Refugee Assistance Pr: $10k → 17%US Right to Know: $100k → 10%US Right to Know: $100k → 10%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $15k → 11%US Right to Know: $100k → 10%Central American Resource Center: $25k → 10%US RIGHT TO KNOW: $93k → 10%Detention Watch Network: $10k → 14%US Right to Know: $75k → 10%Solutions for Change: $15k → 11%Detention Watch Network: $10k → 14%Detention Watch Network: $10k → 14%Solutions for Change: $5k → 11%A PLACE OF REFUGE MINISTRIES: $7k → 17%Oceanside Homeless Resource: $8k → 11%A Place of Refuge Ministries of Sou: $5k → 17%Hatian Bridge Alliance: $25k → 11%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

VT
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 101 repeat orgs$2.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

101 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 97 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
159

Total granted

$6.7M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

61%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesInternationalCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • UR
    US RIGHT TO KNOW
    7× · 2017–2024 · $548k · revenue +40% · 35% of their budget
  • CT
    COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +27%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
    4× · 2017–2021 · $338k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • PS
    Psychedelic Science Funders Collabo
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • EM
    Enthea - Multidisciplinary Assoc
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights
2
Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
3
Jubilee Immigration Advocates

Our mission is to reflect Gods intent for humanity, to live as a reconciled and and restored community. We stand in solidarity with immigrants by providing high quality, affordable immigration legal services and advocating for just…

Human Services
4
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
5
Women's Link Worldwide

A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…

Civil Rights
6
Justice Without Borders

To create transnational access to legal assistance for victims of labour exploitation and human trafficking so that they can seek rightful compensation, even after returning home.

International
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…

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9
LexCollective

LexCollective is a not-for-profit organization that addresses the most extreme forms of social, racial, economic, and environmental injustices around the world, such as mass atrocities, human trafficking, environmental destruction, and…

International
10
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
11
Women in Migration Network Inc

Women in Migration Network (WIMN), an international non-governmental organization, identifies and promotes human rights-based and feminist global migration policies. We lift up and support the experiences, voices and agency of all women in…

Civil Rights
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bring Me a Book St Louis. 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

170 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. 170 of the 273 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
167/170
Grantees still filing
88/170
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boys Girls Club of San Diego: $400,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club of San DiegoFraternity House Inc: $225,000 · OtherVets Inc: $200,000 · OtherFOOD & WATER WATCH: $180,000 · Other+120 more: $4,333,500 · Other+120 moreUS RIGHT TO KNOW: $548,000 · Human ServicesUS RIGHT TO KNOWWELLSPRING INC: $240,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING INCTABITHAS HEART: $102,500 · Human ServicesTABITHAS HEARTALLIANCE: $95,000 · Human ServicesALLIANCESDG IMPACT FUND INC: $75,000 · Human Services+22 more: $499,000 · Human Services+22 moreCOHERE USA INC: $150,000 · InternationalCOHERE US…MYRIAD USA INC: $150,000 · InternationalMYRIAD US…THE AJA PROJECT: $105,000 · InternationalTHE AJA P…CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $73,000 · InternationalCHURCH WO…Compassion International Incorporated: $70,000 · InternationalCompassio…SINGING ROOSTER INC: $47,500 · InternationalSINGING R…ASYLUM ACCESS: $30,000 · International+12 more: $201,500 · International+12 moreCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $440,000 · ReligionCOMMISSIO…HARVESTNET INTERNATIONAL: $195,000 · ReligionHARVESTNE…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $135,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN…+3 more: $51,000 · Religion+3 moreFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $337,500 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Alliance: $100,000 · EnvironmentGIFT OF WATER INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $185,000 · Civil RightsVeterans for All Voters: $100,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsFreedom for Immigrants: $30,000 · Civil RightsInnovation Law Lab: $25,000 · Civil RightsCOALITION FOR HUMANE IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $25,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WOMEN OF THE HORN: $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER: $20,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $30,000 · Civil RightsCHAKANA MEDIA INC: $75,000 · EducationGender Illumination: $75,000 · EducationThe Allyance Inc CHEM Allyance: $50,000 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationChacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant: $35,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $30,000 · EducationWORKERS DEFENSE PROJECT: $25,000 · EducationVINEVEGANISM IS THE NEXT EVOLUTION INCORPORATED: $25,000 · EducationUC LAW SF FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY LAKE SCHOOL INC: $19,000 · Education
Other$5,338,500Human Services$1,559,500International$827,000Religion$821,000Environment$502,500Civil Rights$485,000Education$404,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUS RIGHT TO KNOW: $548,000 over 7y, 35% of budgetCOMMISSION TO EVERY NATION: $440,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $337,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $240,000 over 5y, 55% of budgetFraternity House Inc: $225,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetHARVESTNET INTERNATIONAL: $195,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetEQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO: $185,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH: $180,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AJA PROJECT: $105,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetTABITHAS HEART: $102,500 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans for All Voters: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALLIANCE: $95,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCREATIVE EXCHANGES INITIATIVE: $85,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetBoys to Men Mentoring Network Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $75,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHAKANA MEDIA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGender Illumination: $75,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetSDG IMPACT FUND INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding The Soul Foundation: $75,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $73,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGIFT OF WATER INC: $65,000 over 7y, 29% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR SHAKE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $50,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetJAIL GUITAR DOORS: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL OUTLOOK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEW YORK IMMIGRATION COALITION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHOW ME INTEGRITY: $50,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM FORWARD INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSINGING ROOSTER INC: $47,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION ST LOUIS: $42,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDRCNET FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES: $37,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetChacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant: $35,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetASYLUM ACCESS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENTS WITHOUT LIMITS: $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetDetention Watch Network: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds US RIGHT TO KNOW ↗
  • Who funds COMMISSION TO EVERY NATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds Fraternity House Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTNET INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds EQUALITY ALLIANCE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
  • Who funds COHERE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds THE AJA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TABITHAS HEART ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Veterans for All Voters ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE EXCHANGES INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Boys to Men Mentoring Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
  • Who funds CHAKANA MEDIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Gender Illumination ↗
  • Who funds SDG IMPACT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding The Soul Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗

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.

The San Diego Foundat…NEO Philanthropy IncBorealis PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…Rsf Social Finance IncProteus Fund IncFwdus Education Fund …ImpactassetsincPrice Philanthropies …The Conrad Prebys Fou…Jewish Community Foun…St Louis Community Fo…
The San Diego FoundationCA80.1× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · St Louis Community Foundation Inc

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 Dr Bronners Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dr Bronners Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Portland Institute for Contemporary Art: 5% of income from government
  • Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
39report 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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Find your warmest path to Dr Bronners Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 273 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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