· Private foundation
Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of GRANT & VIRGINIA BRISSMAN FOUNDATION NFP’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCK ISLAND MILAN LITTLE LEAGUE | $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 |
| CHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER OF THE QC | $10,000 |
| MILAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $10,000 |
| SAL FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR THE OLDER ADULT | $8,000 |
| SAFER FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| SPRING FORWARD LEARNING CENTER | $7,500 |
| YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF RI COUNTY | $5,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CARE | $5,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCES INC | $5,000 |
| HEART OF HOPE | $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 (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 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- THTRINITY HEALTH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $144k · revenue +243%
- MCMILAN CHRISTIAN FOOD PANTRY7× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +44% · 37% of their budget
- BHBLACK HAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- VOVILLAGE OF MILANone grant, 2020 · $50k
- BCBRISSMAN CHAR GIVING FUND CO QCCFone grant, 2023 · $25k
- RSRIMILAN SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.…
Qlarant inc's, mission is to improve health in the communities we serve.
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.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany for Children & Families and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 54. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 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 YWCA OF THE QUAD CITIES ↗
- Who funds Two Rivers YMCA Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Grant & Virginia Brissman Foundation Nfp 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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