· Private foundation
The Branscomb 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE | $30,000 |
| INTERNET ARCHIVES | $10,000 |
| VANDERBILT | $6,000 |
| GCSU FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $6,000 |
| ELECTRONIC FRONTIER F | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL HARMONY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AET LIBRARY ENDOWMENT | $4,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY | $4,000 |
| THE COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CODEPINK | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| BAY AREA COMMUNITY LAW FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| FREE FLIGHT | $2,500 |
| BACKBONE CAMPAIGN | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CICOMPASSION INSTITUTE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +8%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $55k · revenue +9%
- IAInternet Archive9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- NGNABU GLOBAL INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TFTibet Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +70%
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.
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The american political science association ("apsa") supports excellence in scholarship and teaching and informed discourse about politics, policy, and civic participation. the association promotes a lively, diverse community of scholars,…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Educate/advocate for effective corporate governance and public company disclosure, strong shareholder rights and fair capital markets.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 COMPASSION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HORSE FKA THE AAEP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds AET LIBRARY ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds NABU GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Backbone Campaign ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST F ↗
- Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEOHAZARDS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS OVERSIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Good Governance ↗
- Who funds Tibet Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL INTEREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Branscomb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Branscomb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- American Institute of Physics Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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