· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF NEW ORLEANS | $120,705 |
| EJGH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP RUMMEL HIGH SCHOOL | $27,500 |
| ARCHBISHOP CHAPELLE HIGH SCHOOL | $26,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| UNCF | $10,000 |
| MAGNOLIA SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| STMICHAELS SPECIAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MOUNT CARMEL ACADEMY | $700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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 +43% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $197k · revenue +60%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $77k · revenue +43%
- LULOYOLA UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2021 · $11k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- WWWorld War 2 Museumone grant, 2019 · $90k
- TNTHE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $45k
- RHRummel High Schoolone grant, 2019 · $36k
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.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 48 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 CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CITY PARK ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Belhaven University ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray and Jessica Brandt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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