· Private foundation
John & Orah Brandt Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
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 |
| BOISE RESCUE MISSION | $100,000 |
| NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| IDAHO FREEDOM FOUNDATION INC | $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 |
| COLLEGE OF WESTERN IDAHO | $35,000 |
| LAUNCH MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| YOUNGLIFE | $30,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +81% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John & Orah Brandt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Orah Brandt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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