· Private foundation
John & Orah Brandt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLE VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $180,000 |
| NAMPA SALVATION ARMY | $150,000 |
| QUAKER HILL CONFERENCE | $145,000 |
| NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| BOISE RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY NETWORK | $90,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $86,000 |
| LOVE INC | $80,000 |
| BIBLICAL STUDIES CENTER | $55,000 |
| STANTON HEALTHCARE | $50,000 |
| LAUNCH MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO | $35,000 |
| THE AMBROSE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
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, $645k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +81% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NNNORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $605k · revenue +32%
- IFIDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $556k · revenue +37%
- NCNAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $512k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- IFIDAHO FREEDOM FOUND INCone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BSBOISE ST UNIV FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $32k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2017 · $23k
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 work towards the great commission both locally and globally by partnering with the church to mobilize, equip, send and care for short-term teams and long-term workers who will take the gospel to the unreached.
Providing religious service for adults and youths
To provide college training to men and women planning to enter the christian ministry throughout the world.
Public education (local education agency) - sage international school engages students within an inclusive ib learning community, challenging all members to take risks and contribute locally and globally through open-minded inquiry.
To train christian leaders and students who will serve god and man in whatever setting god places them as young adults.
Partnering with christian families to shepherd and challenge students toward their individual potential to impact the world for jesus christ.
Ibc exists to empower indigenous christ-followers for ministry to the nations. in order to accomplish this purpose, the goals of indigenous bible college are: 1) to provide the necessary training for accurate interpretation of gods word so…
Bible-centered, interdenominational, organization, composed of born-again believers whose purpose and mission are to evangelize boys and girls with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, disciple them in the Word of God, and establish them…
To provide a challenging learning environment in science, technology, engineering, and math, which maximizes individual potential and ensures students are well-equipped to meet the challenges in the world around them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nampa Christian Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Biblical Studies Center Inc the Biblical Studies Center. 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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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 16% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 46 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 NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLICAL STUDIES CENTER INC THE BIBLICAL STUDIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Boise State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MISSIONARY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMBROSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAUNCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CANYON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFES KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CARING HEARTS AND HANDS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds YOU GOTTA ASK INC ↗
- Who funds BOISE PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE LAKE 4-H CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds Because International Corp ↗
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: Harold E & Phyllis S Thomas Foundation · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Larry and Marianne Williams Family Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Smeed Memorial Foundation · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 John & Orah Brandt 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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