· Private foundation
Leo a & Minta L Brisco Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR PERFORMING ARTS SLO | $15,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY HISTORIAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| FIVE CITIES CHRISTIAN WOMEN | $15,000 |
| THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF SLO CO | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 136 | $10,000 |
| SLO FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PRICE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS OF AG FFA | $10,000 |
| RANCHO NIPOMO DANA ADOBE | $10,000 |
| ARROYO GRANDE SPORTSMAN'S CLUB | $10,000 |
| PORT SAN LUIS LIGHT HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST VETERANS MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| COLAB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its 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 +17% since the first grant, against -48% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 6 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 FY2025, 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
- FCFIVE CITIES CHRISTIAN WOMEN9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +29%
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 1366× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +8%
- PLPacific Legal Foundation8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST-LATTER DAY Sone grant, 2021 · $20k
- AGARROYO GRANDE IN BLOOM INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -48%
- YLYOUTH LEGACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Post protects open space on the peninsula and in the south bay for the benefit of all. post is creating a network of protected lands where people and nature connect and thrive. these lands are preserved forever so present and future…
Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.
Coastal roots farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient jewish wisdom.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Coastal bend bays & estuaries program is dedicated to protecting and restoring bays and estuaries of the texas coastal bend. coastal bend bays and estuaries remain a vital part of the environmental and economic landscape by preserving and…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…
The mission of the coalition to restore coastal louisiana (crcl) is to unite people in action to achieve a thriving, sustainable louisiana coast for all.
The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.
To operate and maintain a rescue mission at Salinas, California provide Job training
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 FIVE CITIES CHRISTIAN WOMEN ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 136 ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE COLAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP NATOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ARROYO GRANDE IN BLOOM 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mankins Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leo a & Minta L Brisco Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo a & Minta L Brisco Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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