How much did Panera Bread Foundation Inc grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of Panera Bread Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 30 grants

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

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

Achieve Miami Inc$150,000
Construction Education Foundation of GA Inc$150,000
Boys Hope Girls Hope of St Louis$150,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc$150,000
An Achievable Dream Middle and High School Inc$125,000
Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)$100,000
Girls Inc of Alameda County$100,000
Urban League Twin Cities$100,000
STEM Paths Innovation Network$100,000
College AIM Inc$100,000
Foundation for a College Education$100,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles$100,000
Oasis - A Haven for Women and Children Inc$75,000
College Visions$75,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Chicago$75,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $658k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.2M · 15 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +129% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+129%

+71%

Still filing today

73%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther

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

AM
Achieve Miami Inc
2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +253%
GI
Girls Inc of Alameda County
3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +29%
CA
College AIM Inc
2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +417%

Funded once

TS
Take Stock in Children Palm Beach County
one grant, 2023 · $150k
AA
An Achievable Dream
one grant, 2023 · $125k
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Plaingraduated
one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +32%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Girls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc

Our mission at Girls Incorporated of Greater Atlanta (GIGA) is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Our programs are evidence-based, aligned with the national Girls Incorporated evaluations, and tailored to meet the unique…

Youth Development

Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles

Girls inc. of los angeles' mission is to empower the girls of los angeles to tap into their strengths and amplify their talents with pro-girl results-oriented programs, events and advocacy.

Youth Development

The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

To enable youth to realize and develop their full potential as citizens in a global society.

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Girls Incorporated of Long Island

The mission of girls incorporated of long island, is to inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold. the organization provides school and community based programming that serves the unique needs of girls, ages 5-18, living in the nassau…

Education

Girls Incorporated of Greater

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…

Youth Development

Boys and Girls Clubs

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, caring and responsible community members.

Youth Development

Boys and Girls Clubs

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.

Unclassified

Girls Incorporated

The organizations mission is to inspire all girls to be strong,smart, and bold, through research-based, innovative, and educational programs and activities.

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Girls Inc of Chicago

Girls inc of chicago provides programming for girls grades k-12 throughout the chicagoland area to inspire them to be strong, smart and bold. as developed by longstanding tax-exempt organization girls incorporated, our comprehensive…

Youth Development

Girls Group

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…

Youth Development

Girls Incorporated of Columbus and

The mission of girls incorporated is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold. girls incorporated provides trained, professional staff; a single-gender environment; and research-based programming that, together, empowers girls to…

Youth Development

Boys & Girls Clubs

To enable youth to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Alameda County and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Community Leadership. 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 31 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,520

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.

04the grantee network

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

40/45

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,005,000Education$1,000,000Youth Development$790,000Human Services$657,500Community Improvement$150,000Arts & Culture$150,000Health$25,000

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.

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.

Girls IncNY20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Girls Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: College AIM Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 814120021 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on College AIM Inc, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Panera Bread Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Panera Bread Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Panera Bread Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Panera Bread Foundation Inc?

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Panera Bread Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

45 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Panera Bread Foundation Inc?

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