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Panera Bread Foundation Inc

We support and strengthen our communities by investing in underserved and at-risk children and youth to become leaders.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Youth Development$2.2MEducation$1.8MEmployment$250kHuman Services$175kCivil Rights$150kCommunity Improvement$150kScience & Tech$25kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
$75,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Achieve Miami Inc$150,000
Boys Hope Girls Hope of St Louis$150,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc$150,000
Construction Education Foundation of GA Inc$150,000
An Achievable Dream Middle and High School Inc$125,000
Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM)$100,000
Urban League Twin Cities$100,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles$100,000
Girls Inc of Alameda County$100,000
Foundation for a College Education$100,000
STEM Paths Innovation Network$100,000
College AIM Inc$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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Girls Inc of San Antonio: $8k → 16%Guadalupe Center Inc: $50k → 10%Quad County Urban League Inc: $75k → 8%Oasis - A Haven for Women and Children Inc: $75k → 12%Urban League Twin Cities: $100k → 11%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $100k → 10%Wings for Kids: $25k → 12%Quad County Urban League Inc: $50k → 8%Oasis - A Haven for Women and Children: $50k → 12%An Achievable Dream: $125k → 17%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $75k → 10%Girls Inc of Alameda County: $50k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 15 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

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

15
27

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BA
    Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +9%
  • AM
    ACHIEVE MIAMI INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300k · revenue +55%
  • HI
    HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TS
    Take Stock in Children Palm Beach County
    one grant, 2023 · $150k
  • AA
    AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +218%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAINgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +28%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

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

Youth Development
2
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities

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.

Youth Development
3
Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis

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
4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Triangle Inc

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.

Youth Development
5
The Boys & Girls Clubs Inc

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.

—
6
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
7
Boys & Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Inc

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.

Youth Development
8
Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston

The mission of Girls Incorporated of Greater Houston is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development
9
Boys & Girls Clubs of Buffalo Inc

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.

Youth Development
10
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

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

Youth Development
11
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc

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.

Youth Development
12
Boys & Girls Clubs of Southwest Virginia Inc

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
33/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS: $225,000 · OtherHOPE IGNITES ST LOUISTake Stock in Children Palm Beach County: $150,000 · OtherTake Stock in Children Palm Beac…CONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GA: $150,000 · OtherCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATIO…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $125,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COAS…Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics (BEAM): $100,000 · OtherBridge to Enter Advanced Mathema…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONG ISLAND INC: $75,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONG…BIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $75,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METR…Big Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA Inc: $70,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DELAWARE INC: $50,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PALM BEACH & MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $50,000 · OtherURBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $50,000 · Other+7 more: $185,000 · Other+7 moreBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of Gre…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO…GIRLFORWARD: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLFORWARDBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SAR…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentCREATEMPLS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $50,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $115,000 · Youth Development+5 moreACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $300,000 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INCFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $200,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE E…COLLEGE AIM INC: $150,000 · EducationCOLLEGE AIM INCAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL INC: $125,000 · EducationAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM MIDDLE…COLLEGE VISIONS: $125,000 · EducationCOLLEGE VISIONSSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK: $100,000 · EducationSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETW…ROAD2HIRE: $100,000 · EducationROAD2HIRE+1 more: $25,000 · EducationGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $225,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED…QUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesQUAD COUNTY URBAN …AN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesAN ACHIEVABLE DREA…OASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesOASIS - A HAVEN FO…URBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $100,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE TWIN …Guadalupe Center Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center I…+2 more: $32,500 · Human ServicesBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $75,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTULSA GIRLS ART SCHOOL PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $25,000 · InternationalYouth Eastside Services: $25,000 · Health
Other$1,355,000Youth Development$1,165,000Education$1,125,000Human Services$782,500Community Improvement$150,000Arts & Culture$150,000International$25,000Health$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $300,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $225,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE IGNITES ST LOUIS: $225,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $200,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF GA: $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOLLEGE AIM INC: $150,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetQUAD COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAN ACHIEVABLE DREAM INC: $125,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCOLLEGE VISIONS: $125,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetOASIS - A HAVEN FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $125,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN: $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSTEM PATHS INNOVATION NETWORK: $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetBreakthrough Cincinnati Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO LOS ANGELES: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE TWIN CITIES: $100,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetROAD2HIRE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGIRLFORWARD: $75,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONG ISLAND INC: $75,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS-BIG SISTERS OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIFE PIECES TO MASTERPIECES: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of SWLA Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGirls Inc of the Pacific Northwest: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCREATEMPLS: $50,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF DELAWARE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetSTEER FOR STUDENT ATHLETES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PALM BEACH & MARTIN COUNTIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Lowcountry: $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR: $50,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF DETROIT AND SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ST LOUIS: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ORANGE COUNTY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHATTANOOGA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE POSSIBLE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Big Brothers Big Sist…Charities Aid Foundat…AT&T FoundationDollar General Litera…Girls IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Cla FoundationInspire Brands Founda…Publix Super Markets …Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Pwc Foundation IncBoys & Girls Clubs of…
Big Brothers Big Sisters Of AmericaFL19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Panera Bread Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Panera Bread Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Panera Bread Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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