· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| STRAY DOG THEATRE | $20,000 |
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| WICHITA KOREAN BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LUCKY K9 RESCUE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 20 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 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 Elevated Access Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Susan Brands Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Susan Brands Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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