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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.

$155k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$230kYouth Development$208kArts & Culture$90kFood & Nutrition$85kInternational$65kHealth$55kHuman Services$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $105k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAVEN HOUSE INC$15,000
BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC$10,000
CASA OF ST LOUIS$10,000
BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC$10,000
FORK OVER LOVE$10,000
CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL INC$10,000
SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC$10,000
OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC$10,000
TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MONTEREY COUNTY$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$5,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$5,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
COMMUNITY MATTERS$5,000
THE FID GROUP$5,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%New Story Charity Inc: $10k → 10%SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10k → 7%LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES INC: $5k → 16%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 10%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $5k → 13%YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $10k → 9%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%REGIONAL YMCA OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $10k → 9%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $5k → 13%TRUSTBRIDGE FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%NOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $10k → 8%BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC: $10k → 9%BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC: $10k → 9%BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC: $10k → 9%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%Ben's Lighthouse: $10k → 9%BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC: $9k → 9%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

MN
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
NC
DC
HI
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$628k · 18 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
22

Total granted

$628k
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+7%

Still filing today

94%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BC
    BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
  • YS
    YOUNG STORYTELLERS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +44%
  • CM
    COMMUNITY MATTERS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • NS
    NEW STORY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • YS
    YOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -3%
  • WE
    WESTCHESTER EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +13%
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
Feeding San Diego

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 & Nutrition
2
Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Foodshot Global Inc

Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.

Food & Nutrition
5
Youthbuild Global Inc

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…

Employment
6
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
7
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
Impact Community Action Partnership Inc

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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9
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
10
Family Programs Hawaii

The mission of the organization is to strengthen youth and families through high quality prevention, support, and transition services.

Unclassified
11
Central California Food Bank

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 & Nutrition
12
Food for the Hungry Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
25/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENS LIGHTHOUSE INC: $49,417 · Human ServicesBENS LIGHTHOUSE INCTrustBridge Foundation Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesTrustBridge Foundati…SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSCOTT J BEIGEL MEMOR…NEW STORY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW STORY INCYOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH SHELTER PROGRA…REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesREGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S…NOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNOTE IN THE POCKET I…PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $10,000 · Human ServicesPAJARO VALLEY SHELTE…+2 more: $10,000 · Human Services+2 moreGEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY: $40,000 · OtherGEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LI…COMMUNITIES LOVING AND SUPPORTING STUDENTS: $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES LOVING AND SUPPORTING STUDEN…COMMUNITY MATTERS: $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY MATTERSCASA OF ST LOUIS: $40,000 · OtherCASA OF ST LOUISHAVEN HOUSE INC: $35,000 · OtherHAVEN HOUSE INC+17 more: $135,000 · Other+17 moreYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG STORYT…Boys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: $38,273 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls…SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUMMER CAMP …BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKFIELD C…Carmel Bach Festival Inc: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCarmel Bach …KIDZNOTES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKIDZNOTES IN…University of Miami: $20,000 · EducationUniversity…ACCESS BOOKS: $20,000 · EducationACCESS BOO…DRUMGOOLE FAMILY INITIATIVES INC: $20,000 · EducationDRUMGOOLE …FIRST BOOK: $15,000 · EducationFIRST BOOKADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC: $10,000 · EducationADOPT-A-CL…WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $10,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFORK OVER LOVE INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$159,417Other$325,000Youth Development$103,273Arts & Culture$100,000Education$85,000International$70,000Food & Nutrition$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC: $60,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG STORYTELLERS: $55,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBENS LIGHTHOUSE INC: $49,417 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY MATTERS: $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustBridge Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF ST LOUIS: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY: $40,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Monterey County: $38,273 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCarmel Bach Festival Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS BOOKS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDRUMGOOLE FAMILY INITIATIVES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFIRST BOOK: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SHELTER PROGRAM OF WESTCHESTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPASS IT ALONG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTE IN THE POCKET INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADOPT-A-CLASSROOM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORK OVER LOVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDZNOTES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNEW FAMILIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION AIRDROP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sur Health Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FID GROUP FRIENDS IN DEED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING TEXAS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Captrust Community Fo…Triangle Community Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bessemer Giving F…Enterprise Holdings F…American Express Foun…Chubb Charitable Foun…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Edward Jones Foundati…National Philanthropi…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Give Back Brands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Give Back Brands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Give Back Brands Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Give Back Brands 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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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