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Give Back Brands Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAVEN HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL INC | $10,000 |
| OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC | $10,000 |
| BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| CASA OF ST LOUIS | $10,000 |
| BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC | $10,000 |
| FORK OVER LOVE | $10,000 |
| TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| YOUNG STORYTELLERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BIG SUR HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| THE FID GROUP | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $159k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +21% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- BCBROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
- YSYOUNG STORYTELLERS6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +44%
- CMCOMMUNITY MATTERS5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- GEGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +17%
- THTrustbridge Hospiceone grant, 2020 · $10k
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +138%
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The mission of the organization is to strengthen youth and families through high quality prevention, support, and transition services.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 51 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 BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG STORYTELLERS ↗
- Who funds BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds TrustBridge Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CASA OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Carmel Bach Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds DRUMGOOLE FAMILY INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS BOOKS ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds PASS IT ALONG INC ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC ↗
- Who funds FORK OVER LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds KIDZNOTES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION AIRDROP INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NOTE IN THE POCKET 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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Captrust Community Foundation Inc · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Express Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Give Back Brands 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission 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.
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