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The Brandt Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HERE IS BETTER FOUNDATION INC | $180,000 |
| SPCA OF WINCHESTER FREDERICK & CLARKE COUNTIES | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
38 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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 UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2021 · $118k · revenue +39%- CFCENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP SYSTEMS6× · 2017–2022 · $110k · revenue +36%
- CBCRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- BRBLUE RIDGE VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $11k
- EHEVANS HOME FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The westchester institute for human development (wihd) creates better futures for people with disabilities, for vulnerable children, and for their families and caregivers. wihd accomplishes its mission through professional education,…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To provide facilities in order to maintain health care services for winchester, ct and the surrounding communities, partner with community organizations to provide health education programs and to seek healthcare providers that complement…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
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…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
William james college strives to be a preeminent college of psychology that integrates rigorous academic instruction with extensive field education and close attention to professional development. we assume an ongoing social responsibility…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The willamette health council improves the well-being of residents in our region by governing our local coordinated care organization, investing in our communities, and fostering collaborative partnerships.
To provide unsurpassed emergency, critical care and specialty care for companion animals while enhancing human-animal bond through superior communication between pet owner, specialist and referral veterinarian.
The mission of northshore health centers is to provide the most comprehensive and quality healthcare, without exclusion, to everyone, every time.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nantucket Community Sailing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Judges Athletic Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 52 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PARTNERSHIP SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds CRESTED BUTTE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD AT EASE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DR TERRY SINCLAIR HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RED WHITE & BLUE INC ↗
- Who funds FREMONT STREET NURSERY ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF WINCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Judges Athletic Association ↗
- Who funds KATIE TEETS BRADSHAW COMFORT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES REACHING OUT GROUP ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SPCA OF WINCHESTER FREDERICK AND CLARKE COUNTIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · John L Harrell & Margaret T Harrell Charitable Trust C/O First Bank Trustee · Feltner Community Foundation · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · Valley Health System · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · The Woltz-Winchester Foundation · Dorothy M Overcash Charitable Trust First Bank Trustee · The Clara Weiss Fund
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 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.
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
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.
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