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The Brandaw Family 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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$331kYouth Development$144kHealth$142kHuman Services$81kRecreation & Sports$55kPhilanthropy$12kAnimals$7kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $29k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$275k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION$18,750
CHILDRENS CANCER ASSOCIATION$10,000
SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION$7,000
GAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION$5,000
SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION$5,000
SAXON SUCCESS FUND$3,000
ISAACS ROOM$2,500
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$2,000
VITAL LIFE - A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$1,000
KATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND$1,000
ARIZONA HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES$500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $3k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $1k → 14%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $1k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CASA OF MARION COUNTY INC: $1k → 14%CASA OF MARION COUNTY INC: $1k → 14%CASA OF MARION COUNTY INC: $1k → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $250 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$744k · 15 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$744k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+16%

Still filing today

93%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionAnimalsOther

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

  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $335k · revenue +182%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES
    2× · 2019–2021 · $100k · revenue +51%
  • SL
    SALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -9%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +490%
  • SS
    SALEM SCHOOLS FOUNDATION DBA SALEM-KEIZER EDUCATIO
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

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.

1
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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2
University of Portland

The university of portland, an independently governed catholic university guided by the congregation of holy cross, addresses significant questions of human concern through interdisciplinary studies of the arts, sciences, and humanities…

Education
3
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

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6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

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8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
12
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Salem Keizer Hs Sports Boosters. 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 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr18%40%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr11%1%35–55yr13%73%55yr+

The field is 24% 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 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
15%
9,975/67,207

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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $335,410 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE+5 more — $7,100 · EducationTHE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES — $100,000 · OtherTHE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S …SALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION — $28,000 · OtherSALEM ROTARY FOUNDATIONVITAL LIFE A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION — $6,500 · Other+10 more — $25,000 · Other+10 moreChildren's Cancer Association — $83,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's C…SALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $47,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA OF MARION COUNTY INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $36,000 · Youth DevelopmentISAAC'S ROOM — $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentArizona Humane Society — $7,000 · AnimalsKATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND — $1,000 · Animals
Education$377,510Other$159,500Arts & Culture$83,000Health$56,000Human Services$55,000Youth Development$40,500Animals$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $335,410 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MARION AND POLK COUNTIES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Cancer Association — $83,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSALEM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSALEM LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — $47,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SALEM MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $36,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM ROTARY FOUNDATION — $28,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetArizona Humane Society — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVITAL LIFE A MARQUIS AND CONSONUS FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MID-WILLAMETTE VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAMMA PHI BETA FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISAAC'S ROOM — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF MARION COUNTY INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSALEM KEIZER HS SPORTS BOOSTERS — $2,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetMEDICAL FOUNDATION OF MARION & POLK COUNTIES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARION DOWNS CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKATIE ADAMSON CONSERVATION FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALEM DREAM CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATLIN GABEL SCHOOL — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Salem FoundationMaps Community Founda…The Oregon Community …United Way of the Mid…Salem HealthWillamette Health Cou…Pioneer Trust Bank Na…OCF Joseph E Weston P…Marie Lamfrom Charita…M J Murdock Charitabl…Lawrence E Tokarski C…W Walton Decd Charita…
The Salem FoundationOR30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Salem Foundation · Maps Community Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley · Salem Health · Willamette Health Council · Pioneer Trust Bank Na Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Lawrence E Tokarski Charitable Trust · W Walton Decd Charitable Trust

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 organization The Brandaw Family Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
  • United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley — 6% of income from government
  • Isaac's Room — 5% of income from government
  • Salem Leadership Foundation — 3% of income from government
  • Casa of Marion County Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Salem Health Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Catlin Gabel School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
2report 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

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 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home