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The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$340kEducation$324kCrime & Legal$283kHuman Services$179kYouth Development$164kArts & Culture$134kHealth$127kHousing & Shelter$99kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $185k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JASPER COUNTY CASA$40,000
Individual grant recipient$26,000
MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION$24,104
ST PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH$20,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
AMERICANA MUSIC ACADEMY$10,000
DWELL WITH DIGNITY$10,000
LAFAYETTE HOUSE$10,000
JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE$10,000
MADISON CO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
ST THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CENTER$7,500
JOPLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY$6,000
PETOLONIA$5,000
CENTRAL OH YOUTH FOR CHRIST$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEVERLY'S PGH: $5k → 10%DWELL WITH DIGNITY: $20k → 14%THE BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 7%DOORS OF HOPE TRANSITION MINISTRIES: $750 → 18%BEVERLY'S PGH: $5k → 10%DWELL WITH DIGNITY: $15k → 14%THE BRIDGE HOUSE: $5k → 7%PIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%DOORS OF HOPE TRANSITION MINISTRIES: $750 → 18%DWELL WITH DIGNITY: $15k → 14%DWELL WITH DIGNITY: $10k → 14%DWELL WITH DIGNITY: $10k → 14%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $1k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $1k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $5k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $1k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $1k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $1k → 9%VISION HOUSE: $1k → 9%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $1k → 9%SHINE JOPLIN: $2k → 18%BRIGHT FUTURES OF JOPLIN: $250 → 18%BRIGHT FUTURES OF JOPLIN: $250 → 18%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
IL
MI
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KS
TN
MS
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 60 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

60 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
40

Total granted

$2.1M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+47%

Still filing today

42%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureReligionFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FF
    FREEMAN FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $299k · revenue +64%
  • JC
    JASPER COUNTY CASA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $242k · revenue +75%
  • FS
    FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • JL
    JOPLIN LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AF
    ART FEEDS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF DENVER MEDICINE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Jefferson Community Counseling Cent Dba Discovery Behavioral Healthcare

Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.

Youth Development
3
Ozark Center

To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed, quality behavioral healthcare solutions.

Health
4
Dismas House of St Louis
Crime & Legal
5
Jeremiah's Place Pittsburgh Relief Nursery

Jeremiah's place will protect children and strengthen families by providing a safe haven of respite, health, renewal, and support for children and families during times of crisis. we strive to serve as a leading voice for child abuse…

Human Services
6
St John the Evangelist Homeless Shelter Inc

To honor the dignity, restore hope and create lasting change for homeless and those at risk in the green bay area.

Housing & Shelter
7
Joy Meadows Inc

It is the mission of joy meadows to provide families with community support, housing, and resources so that children impacted by foster care can find stability, healing and joy.

Human Services
8
Jackson Street Youth Shelter Inc

Jackson street youth services provides safe, secure shelter and related services to youth, ages 10 to 24, who are homeless or experiencing a personal or family crisis. the organization operates a 24-hour phone help line, provides emergency…

Housing & Shelter
9
Magdala House

To provide outpatient and residential rehabilitative services to individuals and families referred by various government agencies. these individuals include substance abusers, intellectually disabled, developmentally disabled, and abused…

Health
10
Julia Greeley Home Inc

Julia greeley home, inc. serves single unaccompanied women in the denver metro area between the ages of 18 and 64 who are struggling with chronic or repeated homelessness. the program fulfills existing gaps between overnight short term…

Housing & Shelter
11
Hope Ministries

Hope ministries is one of the largest private providers of free meals, safe shelter, and comprehensive life-recovery support for homeless, near-homeless, and hungry men, women, and children in iowa. the mission of hope ministries is to…

Human Services
12
Jasper Mountain

To bring hope and healing to traumatized children and their families, and to enhance the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of its clients and staff.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Self Help Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Merri Mac Park Miracle. 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

44 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. 44 of the 111 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEMAN FOUNDATION: $299,269 · OtherFREEMAN FOUNDATIONCENTRAL OH YOUTH FOR CHRIST: $122,000 · OtherCENTRAL OH YOUTH FOR CHRISTFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC: $101,455 · OtherFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INCST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $90,732 · OtherST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCHST PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $89,490 · OtherST PETERS CATHOLIC CHURCHJOPLIN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $76,648 · OtherREGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $71,000 · OtherST LUKE'S PARISH: $60,000 · Other+78 more: $642,689 · Other+78 moreJASPER COUNTY CASA: $242,000 · Crime & LegalJASPER COUNT…+1 more: $4,000 · Crime & LegalMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION: $56,104 · EducationJOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $30,000 · EducationPELOTONIA: $20,000 · EducationJOPLIN LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $5,000 · EducationDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $70,015 · Human ServicesVISION HOUSE: $12,000 · Human ServicesTHE BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGH: $10,000 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA: $9,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICANA MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $81,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $28,000 · Food & NutritionBig Green: $20,000 · Food & NutritionWILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP: $27,258 · EnvironmentFriends of the Dillon Ranger District: $10,000 · Environment
Other$1,553,283Crime & Legal$246,000Education$131,104Human Services$121,015Arts & Culture$86,500Food & Nutrition$48,000Environment$37,258

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA: $242,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC: $101,455 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICANA MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $81,000 over 9y, 6.9% of budgetDWELL WITH DIGNITY INC: $70,015 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION: $56,104 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetJOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPRO MUSICA: $29,000 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP: $27,258 over 3y, 11% of budgetSUMMIT COUNTY RESCUE GROUP INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $24,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Green: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPELOTONIA: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVISION HOUSE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Dillon Ranger District: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ST LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChrist in the City: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCES CABRINI CHARITABLE SERVICES: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJOPLIN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD COAST CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPASSION WORKS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMerri Mac Park Miracle: $2,500 over 1y, 30% of budgetSHINE JOPLIN: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDOORS OF HOPE TRANSITION MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSave Our Cats and Kittens: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIKE MARKET SENIOR CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEEN FEED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBright Futures Joplin: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICANA MUSIC ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds DWELL WITH DIGNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
  • Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds WILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT COUNTY RESCUE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Big Green ↗
  • Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
  • Who funds VISION HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds JOPLIN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MEMPHIS ↗

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.

Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable TrustWI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Arvest Foundation · Michael a Mary Louise & Christine L Glauber Foundation · Curchin Family Foundation · Ruth I Kolpin Foundation · Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities

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 The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation 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 111 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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