How much did THE BRANDT FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of THE BRANDT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

shenandoahnantucketdartmouthhealthblueteamtuck

2019

nantucketdartmouthbluetuck

2020

nantucketbluedartmouthtuck

2021

nantuckettuckdartmouth

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $500
$50k–250k1 grant · $180k

$180,000

Median grant

States reached

$5k

Total assets

Largest grants

HERE IS BETTER FOUNDATION INC$180,000
SPCA OF WINCHESTER FREDERICK & CLARKE COUNTIES$500

02The need

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 (FY17–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 62% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$931k · 39 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$931k

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%

+79%

Still filing today

38%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
3× · 2017–2021 · $118k · revenue +18%
CF
CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP STUDIES
6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +36%
CB
CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST
2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +67%

Funded once

BR
BLUE RIDGE VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2017 · $11k
EH
EVANS HOME FOR CHILDREN
one grant, 2021 · $7k
LB
LOWELL'S BOAT SHOP
one grant, 2018 · $5k

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.

Wilton Land Conservation Trust

PROTECTING, ENHANCING AND CONSERVING open spaces encompassing MEADOWS, WOODLANDS, AND WATERWAYS IN THE town of Wilton CT.

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

Land conservation in nantucket, massachusetts

Environment

Community Foundation for Nantucket

Our mission is to strengthen nantucket now and for future generations through informed philanthropy and community leadership.

Philanthropy

Friends of Nathaniel Witherell Inc

Friends of nathaniel witherell is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising funds in support of the nathaniel witherell, the skilled nursing and short term rehabilitation center owned and operated by the town of greenwich, ct and…

Public Safety & Disaster

Nantucket Hunting Association Inc

Preserve the traditions of ethical hunting and to maintain the balance of nantucket's wildlife resources.

Recreation & Sports

Nantucket Community Service Inc

Low income elderly housing

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The Winter Sanctuary Inc

Our mission is to provide a seasonal, emergency shelter for the members of our community who experience homelessness, and to connect them with resources that empower them to be successful and self-sufficient.

Housing & Shelter

Nahant Preservation Trust Inc

The Nahant Prevention Trust (NPT) is an all volunteer, not for profit charitable corporation whose mission is to preserve our open spaces, historically significant properties, and our conservation lands for public and community benefit

Community Improvement

Nantucket Resource Partnership Inc

Nantucket resource partnership was organized for the purpose of creating a truly food-secure nantucket. nrp fosters collaboration between island organizations to create an efficient and sustainable food security system.

Community Improvement

Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment

Redding Land Trust Inc

The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…

Environment

Brewster Conservation Trust

Land conservation

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nw Works Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

16/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$814,324Education$134,331Social Science$110,000Environment$65,000Public Benefit$16,600Human Services$13,000Animals$2,200

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

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 Bank of Clarke County FoundationVA20.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern Shenandoah · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation THE BRANDT 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP STUDIES.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 770154454 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP STUDIES, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 12% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Brandt Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Brandt Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BRANDT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brandt Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE BRANDT FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brandt Foundation?

More from the funding graph