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The Brent Family Foundation at a glance

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The Brent Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$707k
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

International$3.5MEducation$214kEnvironment$194kFood & Nutrition$87kArts & Culture$33kHealth$25kCrime & Legal$20kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k14 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$961k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Doctors Without Borders$350,000
OXFAM$175,000
CONCERN WORLDWIDE$85,000
International Rescue Committee$20,000
Conservation Colorado$20,000
UNICEF$10,000
Corey Wise Innocence Project$10,000
Partners in Health$10,000
FINCA$5,000
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless$2,000
Everytown for Gun Safety$2,000
Citizen's Climate Education$2,000
Southern Poverty Law Center$2,000
Colorado Public Radio$2,000
ACLU Foundation of Colorado$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Tipi Raisers: $1k → 7%Casa de Paz: $5k → 10%Human Needs Food Pantry: $1k → 16%Foster Source: $500 → 10%Foster Source: $500 → 10%Attention Homes: $1k → 12%TGTHR: $1k → 12%Innocence Project: $1k → 17%Emergency Family Assist Assoc: $1k → 12%Attention Homes: $500 → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MD
DC
LA
AL
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.9M · 24 repeat orgs$134k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
20

Total granted

$3.9M
$106k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+40%

Still filing today

79%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +98%
  • OS
    ONE SCHOOL AT A TIME INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $210k · revenue ×11
  • CC
    CONSERVATION COLORADO
    7× · 2017–2023 · $173k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +40%
  • YOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue +36%
  • C
    Cornell
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
2
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
10
Rainforest Alliance Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

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11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of the Rockies; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 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

37 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. 37 of the 51 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
33/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC+4 more: $61,300 · InternationalOXFAM: $780,000 · OtherOXFAMCONCERN WORLDWIDE: $585,000 · OtherCONCERN WORLDWIDE+29 more: $118,200 · Other+29 moreONE SCHOOL AT A TIME INC: $210,000 · Education+2 more: $1,200 · EducationCONSERVATION COLORADO: $173,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $4,000 · Civil RightsFeeding America: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $14,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $9,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $2,000 · Food & NutritionPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $31,000 · HealthFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $400 · HealthYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC: $21,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture
International$2,061,300Other$1,483,200Education$211,200Civil Rights$177,000Food & Nutrition$65,500Health$41,400Arts & Culture$32,500

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONE SCHOOL AT A TIME INC: $210,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO: $173,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCasa De Paz: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT ON EDUCATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetATTENTION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SURVIVAL: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOSTER SOURCE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TIPI RAISERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN NEEDS FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND UVEITIS FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $200 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 Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…The Janus Henderson F…Rose Community Founda…Mile High United Way …The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
The Denver FoundationCO16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Brent Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brent Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 51 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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