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Driven Brands Charitable Foundation

The foundation is organized for charitable purposes, including, but not limited to assisting in raising money and awareness for issues impacting educational access for children and the health and well being of veterans, other adults, and the communities in which they live, including without limitation, the making of distributions to…

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$5.6MEducation$692kHuman Services$539kPublic Safety & Disaster$72kPhilanthropy$5kHousing & Shelter$5k
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $985,381, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,215,991 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $230,610 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $371k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $545k
$16,418
Median grant
17
States reached
$332k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOLDS OF HONOR$245,673
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$102,906
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - NEW ORLEANS$77,579
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$62,289
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK AT SHANDS$56,746
CHRISTUS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$43,997
OPERATION HOMEFRONT$37,128
UMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$35,695
JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$31,223
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$30,952
CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$24,157
ORLANDO HEALTH FOUNDATION$21,858
COOK CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$17,442
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE FOUNDATION$17,144
CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION$16,927
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 (FY17–21, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $37k → 14%American National Red Cross: $49k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $24k → 10%Childrens Home and Aid Society: $20k → 14%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

IL
WI
MA
IA
OH
UT
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
MS
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 52 repeat orgs$315k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
22

Total granted

$6.6M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+41%

Still filing today

90%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
    2× · 2017–2021 · $708k · revenue +31%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $597k · revenue +3%
  • OH
    OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $479k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $42k · revenue +22%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +90%
  • LI
    LUBBOCK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DI
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
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
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
2
Children's Physicians

Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.

Health
3
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Inc

Mission: johns hopkins all children's hospital (all children's), a member of johns hopkins medicine, strives to provide the highest quality care to improve the health of our entire community through innovation, collaboration, service…

Health
4
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
5
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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6
Pediatric Physician Services Inc

The corporation is organized for charitable, educational and scientific purposes, and to provide healthcare services of pediatric specialty physicians and other personnel to the patients of johns hopkins all children's hospital and…

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7
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
8
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health
9
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
10
Lurie Children's Surgical Foundation Inc

Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.

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11
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
12
St Charles Hospital Foundation

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center; the most unlike its peers is Hector Loyo Memorial Scholarship Fd. 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

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
52/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Texas Children's Hospital: $468,974 · HealthTexas Children's HospitalCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $405,107 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $398,502 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INCCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $296,999 · HealthCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATIONSHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INC: $294,707 · HealthSHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INCCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $293,600 · HealthCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $252,977 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC+40 more: $1,702,959 · Health+40 moreCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $707,655 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETW…UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $207,619 · OtherUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HE…MEDICAL CENTER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $133,619 · OtherMEDICAL CENTER HEALTH S…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA: $76,228 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALA…CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC: $57,049 · Other+14 more: $214,780 · Other+14 moreFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC: $597,069 · EducationFOLDS OF HO…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $65,164 · EducationDUKE UNIVER…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $23,678 · Education+2 more: $24,324 · EducationOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $479,437 · Community ImprovementAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $72,430 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $37,482 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $20,000 · Human ServicesGREATER ORLANDO CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $44,205 · Philanthropy
Health$4,113,825Other$1,396,950Education$710,235Community Improvement$479,437Human Services$129,912Philanthropy$44,205

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $707,655 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR - NORTH TEXAS INC: $597,069 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $479,437 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital: $468,974 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $405,107 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $398,502 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTUS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $296,999 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHANDS TEACHING HOSPITAL AND CLINICS INC: $294,707 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $293,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $252,977 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOur Lady of the Lake Foundation: $135,339 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMEDICAL CENTER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $133,619 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $126,058 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWI Cook Foundation Inc: $115,697 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUMC FOUNDATION: $108,143 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION: $108,028 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $100,418 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER OF AKRON: $83,440 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $72,855 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $72,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $72,430 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART FOUNDATION INC: $68,013 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $65,164 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHANDS JACKSONVILLE MEDICAL CENTER INC: $64,994 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $51,349 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $49,269 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $48,106 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER ORLANDO CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $44,205 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN INC: $42,363 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLe Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation: $42,177 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $41,819 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $37,482 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $36,225 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBaptist Health System Foundation Inc: $32,915 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetScott & White Healthcare Foundation: $28,703 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRISMA HEALTH MIDLANDS FOUNDATION F/K/A PALMETTO HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,238 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $24,332 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $23,678 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $22,117 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $21,882 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $21,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $20,501 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME & AID SOCIETY OF ILL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristus Health Northern Louisiana: $19,885 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARRINGTON CANCER AND HEALTH FOUNDATION: $19,720 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION: $19,324 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOSF Healthcare Foundation: $18,513 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital and Healthcare Services Foundation: $17,846 over 2y, 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.

Child's PlayAmerican Cancer Socie…Joy In Childhood Foun…The Torch Relay for C…Hyundai Hope on WheelsReach Out and Read IncPga Tour IncInstitute for Advance…St Baldrick's Foundat…Will Rogers Motion Pi…Gamers Outreach Found…Cystic Fibrosis Found…
Child's PlayWA34.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Child's Play · American Cancer Society Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · The Torch Relay for Children's Miracle Network Inc · Hyundai Hope on Wheels · Reach Out and Read Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Institute for Advanced Clinical Trials for Children · St Baldrick's Foundation Inc · Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation · Gamers Outreach Foundation Inc · Cystic Fibrosis 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 Driven Brands Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Driven Brands Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Voices for Children Foundation Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to Driven Brands Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Driven Brands Charitable 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 76 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 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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