· Private foundation
John and Susan Brands 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 $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| STRAY DOG THEATRE | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| LUCKY K9 RESCUE | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| WICHITA KOREAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SLST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +17%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +98%
Feeding America4× · 2018–2023 · $25k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- SSSUSQUEHANNA SPCA INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -6%
- BSBI STATE PET FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- MEMYAKKA ELEPHANT RANCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +615%
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.
Our organization believes it is our moral responsibility to protect and improve the lives of rescued animals and place them in loving permanent homes in st. louis metro.
Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…
Established in 2016, rescue pack serves communities across the midwest to tackle pet food insecurity by recovering donated surplus pet food and supplies and redistributing them through charitable programs. we partner with animal welfare…
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Serving dogs in need around the world and their communities through rescue, adoption, wellness, spay/neuter, and education. street dog hero envisions a world where all dogs are healthy, safe, cared for, and wanted.
To rescue stray animals in need of medical attention, restore them to health, and place them in homes.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Nevada spca saves the lives of southern nevada's most vulnerable pets, inspires human companions to uphold the best possible care and increases the human-animal bond through adoption, foster and preventative care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Area Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pride St Charles. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STRAY DOG THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Elevated Access Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SOFT COATED WHEATEN TERRIER CLUB OF GREATER TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE ST CHARLES ↗
- Who funds SUSQUEHANNA SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds MYAKKA ELEPHANT RANCH 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 and Susan Brands 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.