· Private foundation
Edmund W and Darlene L Braune Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Morning Star Boys Ranch | $55,000 |
| Harrington Lions Club | $6,000 |
| Meals on Wheels Spokane | $5,000 |
| Odessa Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| Lincoln Hospital Foundation | $5,000 |
| Special Olympics Washington | $3,000 |
| Holy Family Catholic School | $3,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $3,000 |
| Vanessa Behan Crisis Nusery | $3,000 |
| Salvation Army | $3,000 |
| Union Gospel Mission | $3,000 |
| Harrington School District | $3,000 |
| Volunteers of America | $3,000 |
| Odessa School Distrct | $3,000 |
| Adams Country Pet Rescue | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- LHLINCOLN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +27%
- SCSPOKANIMAL CARE8× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +239%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON8× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NNAone grant, 2017 · $164k
- PCPTC COMMUNITY IMPACT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MMAone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
PAWS cares for lost, abandoned and abused animals and finds them new homes with responsible owners. PAWS also provides low cost spay and neuter services, a pet food pantry, and community education. During 2024 PAWS adopted out 577 pets.…
The east bay spca founded in 1874, is proud to be one of the oldest shelters in the country and one of the most innovative in our region. our mission is to transform the lives of cats and dogs by enriching the human-animal bond through…
To provide animal rescue, rehabilitation, veterinary care, rehoming and adoption services in southwest washington.
Caring for homeless animals, and finding homes for them through pet adoptions.
To provide a safe haven for senior dogs that are abandoned, abused, or face euthanasia who are unable to be cared for by their owners.
Rescue and care for stray or unwanted animals.
Founded in 1973, dove lewis emergency animal hospital, inc. (dovelewis) is one of the premier veterinary medical service organizations in the us and the only 24/7 not-for-profit animal emergency, critical care, and specialty hospital in…
Seattle animal foundation (saf) is on a mission to make sure every animal finds the love, care, and forever home they deserve. since 2010, we have been a not-for-profit organization raising critical funds to support life-saving programs,…
Animal shelter providing care for unwanted and stray animals.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
Dakin humane society delivers effective, innovative services that improve the lives of animals in need and the people who care about them. as a trusted community resource center for pets and their people, we offer a variety of programs…
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spokanimal Care and the most unlike its peers is Lincoln Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 53 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 Morning Star Boys Ranch ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPOKANIMAL CARE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Spokane Humane Society ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds SCRAPS HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VANESSA BEHAN ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Roy and Leona Nelson Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good
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 Edmund W and Darlene L Braune 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.
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.
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