· Private foundation
James E and Edith Margaret Brandon 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER | $17,000 |
| MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| PATRICK HENRY CENTER | $6,000 |
| FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES | $6,000 |
| LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WESTCLIFF BIBLE CHURCH | $2,500 |
| FREE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| ACADEMY OF PHILOSPHY | $2,500 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND | $2,000 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIFE OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| EAGLE FORUM EDUCATION AND LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $450) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CRCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +196%
- TFTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +3%
- MRMEDIA RESEARCH CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- DHDAVID HORWITZ FREEDOM CENTERone grant, 2024 · $3k
- TCTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +130%
- RAREFORM AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +72%
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…
To investigate, explore and focus public, legislative and judicial attention on all areas of individual freedom and individual rights as guaranteed by the u.s. and state constitutions and free market principles.
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The mission of the freedom forum institute is to champion the five freedoms of the first amendment through education and entertainment.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To provide thoughtful, conservative solutions to the challenges presented by education, workforce, labor and employment issues.
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedomworks Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Free Enterprise Institute. 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 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLE FORUM EDUCATION & LEGAL DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOR RELATIONS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS' COUNCIL FOR HEALTH FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MORAL LAW INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds Free Enterprise Institute ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds REFORM AMERICA ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR GUN RIGHTS 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 James E and Edith Margaret Brandon Foundation 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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