· Public charity
Inspire Brands Foundation Inc
At the inspire brands foundation, we exist to ignite and nourish change for good through strategic national and community partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 306 grants below total $10,994,393 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,791,344 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,796,951 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k113 grants · $784k
- $10k–50k164 grants · $3.0M
- $50k–250k24 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+5 grants · $5.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DonorsChooseorg | $1,973,689 |
| Share Our Strength | $1,254,758 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of America | $1,192,700 |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $613,210 |
| The Ron Clark Academy Inc | $426,725 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Bandera County | $101,391 |
| United Heroes League | $101,000 |
| City of Refuge Incorporated | $100,097 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of America | $100,000 |
| 3DE National LLC | $100,000 |
| Cleveland Browns Foundation | $90,000 |
| Board of Education of the City of Decatur dba City | $88,000 |
| Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School Inc | $84,000 |
| The Giving Kitchen Initiative | $84,000 |
| Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation | $82,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of Inspire Brands Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in GA; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
357 repeat relationships — 203 still active in FY2024, 154 since wound down; 101 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
SHARE OUR STRENGTH8× · 2017–2024 · $13M · revenue +60%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA6× · 2019–2024 · $9.1M · revenue +66%
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG3× · 2018–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +1%
Funded once
- RIRICHARDSON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $162k
- PBPROJECT BACKBOARDone grant, 2022 · $108k · revenue -16%
- JEJordan Education Foundationone grant, 2023 · $104k · revenue -25%
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.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite and empower the promise of youth. we nurture children, strengthen communities and believe that inherent in every child is the ability to succeed and thrive in life.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.
To inspire and enable all young people especially those in need to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people to reach their full potential as caring, productive, and responsible citizens.
Youth health and social, educational, and character development of youth.
To inspire and enable youth ages 6 to 18 to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. the boys and girls clubs of greater st. louis provides recreational, athletic and educational facilities for youth in…
Servie the youth of jefferson and cocke county through summer and after school programming to inspire and enable them to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To inspire all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Jes & Us - the Jack Elton Snyder Foundation. 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 38 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
675 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 675 of the 753 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Georgia ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds RON CLARK ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HEROES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND BROWNS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BESTPREP ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING TEXAS ↗
- Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
- Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh Inc ↗
- Who funds Boyer Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GenYOUTH Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE MISSIONS 360 INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds I Am A Father 5K Inc ↗
- Who funds The Stewart Foundation 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: Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Dick's Sporting Goods Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · The Gap Foundation · The Papa John's Foundation Inc · The Jcpenney Foundation · Ezcorp Foundation · Crowe & Dunlevy Foundation Inc
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 Inspire Brands Foundation Inc 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.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children-Portland — 5% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore Inc — 1% of income from government
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 1% of income from government
- First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Covenant House Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay 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.