How much does Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation give?

Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $398,499 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Youth Development (11%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Franklin College of Indiana ($644k), Girls Incorporated of Franklin ($135k), Leadership Johnson County Inc ($121k).

Does Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johnson County Community Foundation Inc, Duke Energy Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc.

Where is Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation based?

Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation is based in IN.

Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation

Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$398k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$56k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.3MYouth Development$321kArts & Culture$296kAnimals$174kCommunity Improvement$161kFood & Nutrition$110kHealth$106kPhilanthropy$86kOther$0

02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k14 grants · $80k
$10k–50k13 grants · $213k
$50k–250k2 grants · $106k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRANKLIN COLLEGE OF INDIANA	$56,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF JOHNSON CO	$50,000
Individual grant recipient	$39,000
GIRLS INC OF FRANKLIN	$25,000
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$20,000
TARA TREATMENT CENTER	$20,000
CLARK PLEASANT EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$20,000
FRANKLIN PARKS RECREATION DEPT	$15,500
FRANKLIN SYMPHONIC COUNCIL	$12,500
LEADERSHIP JOHNSON COUNTY	$10,704
BUTLER UNIVERSITY	$10,000
IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF JOHNSON CO I	$10,000
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF JOHNSON CO	$10,000
INTERCHURCH FOOD PANTRY	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

$2.6M · 34 repeat orgs$136k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

Still filing today

47%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

FC
Franklin College of Indiana
9× · 2017–2025 · $644k · revenue +36%
GI
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FRANKLIN
6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +8%
JC
JOHNSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2019–2024 · $109k · revenue +196%

Funded once

JC
Johnson Co Parks and Recreation
one grant, 2019 · $15k
FC
FRANKLIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +36%
IT
IVY TECH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +34%

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.

Jackson County Industrial Development Corporation

Assist in the development of projects in cooperation with the local government and civic bodies that secure additional employment opportunities and facilities in jackson county indiana.

Community Improvement

Johnson County Historical Society Inc

The purpose of the organization is to operate the johnson county historical museum and educate the public concerning the history of johnson county, indiana.

Arts & Culture

United Way of Franklin County

To positively impact the lives of those in our community by assessing needs, uniting partner organizations, agencies, and volunteers, and devoting our financial resources and efforts to the most critical needs.

Philanthropy

Indiana University Health Frankfort Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

Indiana Innovation Council Inc

Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.

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Jackson County Education Coalition

The jackson county education coalition is a county wide partnership of education, industry, and community leaders focused on aligning and integrating the county's learning system with economic growth and a high quality of life in jackson…

Education

Johnson City Public Library

Through both traditional materials and emerging technologies, johnson city public library offers a mulititude of learning opportunities and entertainment choices in a dynamic center for the community.

Education

The Jackson County United Way Inc

Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.

Philanthropy

Jay County Development Corporation

Encourage business to originate, expand current facilities, or relocate to areas within jay county, indiana, in order to expand job opportunities of the residents of jay county, indiana

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Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit

Indiana University Health Jay Inc

Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.

Health

Aspire Johnson County Inc

Aspire johnson county exists to promote business success and economic growth in johnson county and the communities that are contiguous thereto. its purposes are to: - encourage, foster, and stimulate the business success of our members; -…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson County Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Johnson County Autism Support Group Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 49 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/27

Grantees still filing

18/27

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,531,714Education$932,256Human Services$164,125Health$80,525Philanthropy$68,500Community Improvement$22,500Arts & Culture$4,000

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

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.

Johnson County Community Foundation IncIN45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Johnson County Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · Centerpoint Energy Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The Conover Foundation Inc Agt · Thurston Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving 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 Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elba L and Gene Portteus Branigin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report 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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