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Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp at a glance

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Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
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 2025.

Education$320kHealth$262kFood & Nutrition$156kHuman Services$142kYouth Development$94kArts & Culture$81kPhilanthropy$75kRecreation & Sports$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QC$10,000
MILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY$10,000
QUAD CITY ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER$10,000
SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
PROJECT NOW$10,000
SAL FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES$10,000
ROCK ISLAND MILAN LITTLE LEAGUE$10,000
MILAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$10,000
ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT$8,000
SAFER FOUNDATION$8,000
SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER$7,500
HEART OF HOPE$5,000
CHRISTIAN CARE$5,000
YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY$5,000
FIGGE ART MUSEUM$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 (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PROJECT NOW: $10k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $10k → 15%PROJECT NOW: $10k → 15%MARRIAGE-FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 15%MARRIAGE FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 15%MARRIAGE-FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 15%MARRIAGE-FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 15%MARRIAGE-FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 15%MARRIAGE-FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE: $3k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $7k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $6k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $6k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $6k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $5k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $3k → 15%QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK: $3k → 15%QUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK: $3k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $3k → 15%YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY: $3k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $3k → 15%BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $1k → 15%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.
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 41 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
-15%

Still filing today

66%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • TH
    TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $144k · revenue +243%
  • MC
    MILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +44% · 37% of their budget
  • BH
    BLACK HAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • VO
    VILLAGE OF MILAN
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • BC
    BRISSMAN CHAR GIVING FUND CO QCCF
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • RS
    RIMILAN SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Mid-Iowa Community Action Inc

Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.

Community Improvement
2
Northern Illinois Blood Bank Inc D/B/a Rock River Valley Blood Center

Rock river valley blood center, in partnership with our community, is dedicated to providing safe, high value blood products and services to people in need.

Health
3
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…

Health
4
Rockford Day Nursery

It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.

Human Services
5
South Central Iowa Community Action Program Inc

To provide advocacy and services for disadvantaged persons and bring about institutional change for the benefit of the people we serve and the community at large. (see schedule o).to achieve this mission, scicap operates programs to…

Community Improvement
6
Quad Cities Chamber of Commerce

The quad cities chamber of commerce is a combined chamber of commerce, economic, and community development organization serving the greater quad cities region. the quad cities chamber of commerce's mission is to strengthen and enhance the…

Community Improvement
7
West Central Community Action

In partnership with state and federal government, our mission is to administer programs designed to help residents in our 10-county region of southwest iowa achieve self-sufficiency.

Human Services
8
Sinnissippi Centers Inc

It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.

Health
9
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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10
Qlarant Inc

Qlarant inc's, mission is to improve health in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
12
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families; the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. 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

40 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. 40 of the 70 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QC: $67,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QCSCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherSCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONBLACK HAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherBLACK HAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATIONWESTERN IL UNIV FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherWESTERN IL UNIV FOUNDATIONVILLAGE OF MILAN: $50,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF MILANALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC: $47,000 · OtherALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INCROCK ISLANDMILAN LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $40,800 · OtherSafer Foundation: $31,000 · Other+44 more: $374,155 · Other+44 moreTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $144,178 · HealthTRINITY HEAL…+3 more: $7,000 · HealthMILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY: $143,266 · Food & NutritionMILAN CHRIS…+1 more: $2,500 · Food & NutritionSPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $48,000 · EducationAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $47,000 · EducationYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO: $32,800 · Human ServicesPROJECT NOW INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesMARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO: $15,050 · Human ServicesBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8,500 · Human ServicesQUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $21,000 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITY ARTS INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBALLET QUAD CITIES: $2,500 · Arts & CultureQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$780,455Health$151,178Food & Nutrition$145,766Education$95,000Human Services$91,350Arts & Culture$66,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $144,178 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetMILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY: $143,266 over 7y, 37% of budgetSCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetBLACK HAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetQUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER: $48,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC: $47,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $47,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROCK ISLANDMILAN LITTLE LEAGUE INC: $40,800 over 5y, 15% of budgetYOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO: $32,800 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSafer Foundation: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIGGE ART MUSEUM: $30,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT NOW INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $21,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO: $15,050 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Health Care Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD CITY ARTS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTwo Rivers YMCA Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES: $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYCHILD: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHHOPE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetQUAD CITIES OPEN NETWORK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN CARE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW KINGDOM TRAILRIDERS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRIVER BEND FOOD RESERVOIR: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL BALL RUN FOR AUTISM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetSCHOOL HEALTH LINK INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS QUAD CITIES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetILLOWA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1,500 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.

  • Who funds TRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY ↗
  • Who funds SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BLACK HAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITIES COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT INC ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROCK ISLANDMILAN LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ROCK ISLAND CO ↗
  • Who funds Safer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QUAD CITIES NFP ↗
  • Who funds MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELING OF R I CO ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE HEARTLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Health Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds QUAD CITY ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMILITY HOMES AND SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
  • Who funds YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
  • Who funds SAL FAMILY AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCK ISLAND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds EVERYCHILD ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES ↗

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.

Quad Cities Community…Quad Cities Golf Clas…The Rock Island Commu…United Way Quad CitiesDoris & Victor Day Fo…Rauch Family Foundati…Scott County Regional…Moline FoundationHarold R Bechtel Char…Modern Woodmen of Ame…Hubbell-Waterman FndnMelvin L McKay Ta
Quad Cities Community FoundationIA66.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Quad Cities Community Foundation · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · The Rock Island Community Foundation · United Way Quad Cities · Doris & Victor Day Foundation Inc · Rauch Family Foundation I Inc · Scott County Regional Authority · Moline Foundation · Harold R Bechtel Charitable Trust · Modern Woodmen of America · Hubbell-Waterman Fndn · Melvin L McKay Ta

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 Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp?

    Find your warmest path to Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp 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 70 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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