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Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$260k
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
10
Organizations funded FY2022
40%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$120,705
Organizations funded a year
10 to 23
FY2019 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$26
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 40% of the organizations Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
EducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202210$260k40%
FY202122$257k59%
FY202023$152k83%
FY201912$287kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.

Education$354kHealth$279kPhilanthropy$152kArts & Culture$135kReligion$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kYouth Development$5kRecreation & Sports$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Hospital Inc$196,70530%
American Heart Association Inc$76,95540%
Archbishop Chapelle High School$60,0003n/a
Archbishop Rummel High School$54,0003n/a
St Michael Special School$41,9274n/a
Loyola University$11,00020%
Louisiana Key Academy$10,50010%
University of Holy Cross$10,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
St Marys Dominican High School$6,0002n/a
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All grantees of Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Children's Hospital Inc$196,70530%
American Heart Association Inc$76,95540%
Archbishop Chapelle High School$60,0003n/a
Archbishop Rummel High School$54,0003n/a
St Michael Special School$41,9274n/a
Loyola University$11,00020%
Louisiana Key Academy$10,50010%
University of Holy Cross$10,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$10,00010%
St Marys Dominican High School$6,0002n/a
Hope Ignites New Orleans$5,00020%
Friends of City Park$5,00010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$5,00010%
University of Southern Mississippi$2,0002n/a
Crescent City Baptist School$1,0001n/a
Texas Christian University$1,00010%
Belhaven University$1,00010%
The Howard University$1,00010%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$1,00010%
Academy of Our Lady$1,0001n/a
Mt Carmel Academy$7001n/a
Drago's Foundation$50012%
The Al Copeland Foundation$50010%

Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($454k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Inc: $196,705 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $76,955 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLoyola University: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLouisiana Key Academy: $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Holy Cross: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Ignites New Orleans: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of City Park: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Christian University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelhaven University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Howard University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDrago's Foundation: $500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Al Copeland Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

J Edgar Monroe FoundationLA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · The Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation · Goldring Family Foundation · Salutare Deum Foundation · James P Raymond Jr Foundation · Angel Wings Foundation · Lauricella Land Company Foundation

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.

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About Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation

How much does Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation give?
Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $259,905 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 23 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
What does Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (37%), Health (29%), Philanthropy (16%).
Who are Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2022: Children's Hospital Inc ($197k), American Heart Association Inc ($77k), Archbishop Chapelle High School ($60k).
Does Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include J Edgar Monroe Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation, Louise H Moffett Family Foundation.
Where is Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation based?
Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation is based in LA.

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 48 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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