· Public charity
Panera Bread Foundation Inc
We support and strengthen our communities by investing in underserved and at-risk children and youth to become leaders.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Construction Education Foundation of GA Inc | $150,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc | $150,000 |
| Achieve Miami Inc | $150,000 |
| Boys Hope Girls Hope of St Louis | $150,000 |
| An Achievable Dream Middle and High School Inc | $125,000 |
| Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM) | $100,000 |
| STEM Paths Innovation Network | $100,000 |
| College AIM Inc | $100,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles | $100,000 |
| Urban League Twin Cities | $100,000 |
| Girls Inc of Alameda County | $100,000 |
| Foundation for a College Education | $100,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago | $75,000 |
| College Visions | $75,000 |
| Oasis - A Haven for Women and Children Inc | $75,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $783k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% 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.
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 — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- BABoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +9%
- AMACHIEVE MIAMI INC2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +55%
- HIHOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TSTake Stock in Children Palm Beach Countyone grant, 2023 · $150k
- AAAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +218%
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAINgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +28%
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 inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens
To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.
Girls inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. in partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. she learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and…
Create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth. the organization's vision is that all youth achieve their full potential.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.
Girls group empowers middle and high school women to achieve emotional and economic security by graduating from high school and becoming first generation college graduates. girls group provides year round programming and mentoring to…
The boys & girls clubs of the greater chippewa valley's mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, caring citizens.
The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.
Our mission is to provide a safe and stable experience that assures success is within reach of all our members - that they graduate from high school with plans for their futures and that they are living healthy lifestyles.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
The mission of the boys & girls club of palm beach county is to inspire and assist all young people, especially those who need them most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To enable and inspire all young people, ages five to eighteen, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities and the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 61 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 Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GA ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE AIM INC ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC ↗
- Who funds AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN ↗
- Who funds Breakthrough Cincinnati Inc ↗
- Who funds STEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ROAD2HIRE ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds LIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLFORWARD ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATEMPLS ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds GEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PALM BEACH & MARTIN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds STEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America · Charities Aid Foundation America · AT&T Foundation · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Girls Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Cla Foundation · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Pwc Foundation Inc · Boys & Girls Clubs of America
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 Panera Bread Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware Inc — 73% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest — 4% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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