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The Brandon Family Foundation at a glance

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The Brandon 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.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$56kReligion$23kEducation$18kHuman Services$15kPhilanthropy$11kYouth Development$9kArts & Culture$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$313k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cleveland Clinic Foundation$5,000
Thea Bowman Center$5,000
Church of the Saviour$5,000
Jacob's Hope$5,000
Shaker Schools Foundation$3,000
Stella Maris$2,000
Club 24 Inc$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Cleveland Foundation$1,000
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 (FY20–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hospice of the Western Reserve: $1k → 17%Hospice of the Western Reserve: $1k → 17%The Gathering Place: $1k → 17%The Gathering Place: $1k → 17%Thea Bowman Center: $5k → 17%Thea Bowman Center: $3k → 17%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$127k · 16 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
10

Total granted

$127k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SM
    STELLA MARIS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +54%
  • SS
    SHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%
  • C2
    CLUB 24 INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • FS
    FRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +81%
  • CC
    CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +18%
  • BS
    BEAUMONT SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
2
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
3
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
4
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
5
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.

Health
6
Lehigh University

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…

Education
7
Western Reserve Historical Society

Western reserve historical society preserves and uses its collections, historic sites, and museums to inspire people to discover the american experience by exploring the tangible history of northeast ohio.

Arts & Culture
8
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
9
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
10
Craig and Frances Lindner Center of Hope

Lindner center of hope (lcoh) is a mental health center staffed by a diverse team, united in the philosophy that by working together, we can best offer hope for people living with mental illness. the patients and their families are at the…

Health
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Dunham Tavern Museum & Gardens

To preserve, develop, and share historic dunham tavern and its campus as an educational and cultural resource. we aspire for dunham tavern as an institution to provide an urban green space in midtown cleveland, and to return the tavern to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Cleveland; the most unlike its peers is Club 24 Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF THE SAVIOUR: $13,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE SAVIOURJacob's Hope: $10,000 · OtherJacob's HopeIndividual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONCleveland Clinic Foundation: $7,500 · OtherCleveland Clinic FoundationFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $5,000 · OtherFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INCBEAUMONT SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherBEAUMONT SCHOOLPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $2,500 · OtherHEIGHTS EMERGENCY FOOD CENTER INC: $2,500 · OtherNorthwestern University: $4,000 · OtherNorthwestern University+3 more: $4,500 · Other+3 moreSTELLA MARIS INC: $36,000 · HealthSTELLA MARIS INCCLUB 24 INC: $7,000 · HealthCLUB 24 INC+1 more: $1,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $7,000 · EducationCulver Educational Foundation: $4,000 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1,000 · EducationTHEA BOWMAN CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING PLACE: $2,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $5,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $4,000 · PhilanthropyLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Arts & CultureThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$70,500Health$44,000Education$12,000Human Services$11,500Philanthropy$9,500Arts & Culture$6,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHAKER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHEA BOWMAN CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCLUB 24 INC: $7,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCulver Educational Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEIGHTS EMERGENCY FOOD CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLEFAIRE JEWISH CHILDREN'S BUREAU: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1,000 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.

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.

The Cleveland Foundat…Cardinal Charitable F…The O'Neill Brothers …Marla & Joseph Shafra…Richard Horvitz and E…Higley Fund of the Cl…The Lozick Family Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
The Cleveland FoundationOH19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · Cardinal Charitable Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Marla & Joseph Shafran Foundation · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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