· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Inspire Brands Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 27% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
675 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Inspire Brands Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inspire Brands Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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