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The Charles E and Kelle G Branson 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.

$3k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$32kPhilanthropy$18kHealth$16kReligion$10kHuman Services$9kArts & Culture$4kYouth Development$2kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$265k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEXFORD K9'S LLC$2,500
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WEXFORD K9'S LLC: $3k → 11%MAC ANGELS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $3k → 15%KY SHERIFFS' BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $1k → 13%COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%MAC ANGELS FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%WELFORD PANTATION CHARITABLE FUND: $5k → 10%KY SHERIFFS' BOYS & GIRLS RANCH: $100 → 13%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 17%WEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%CURE SKTAEBOARDING LLC: $10k → 17%WEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 17%WEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: $2k → 17%WEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%THE SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 17%HENDERSON CCWK DISNEY PROGRAM: $1k → 17%HENDERSON CO ECONOMIC DEV: $1k → 17%HENDERSON AREA ARTS ALLIANCE: $1k → 17%AUDUBON KIDS ZONE: $576 → 17%HABIAT FOR HUMANIY OF HENDERSON KY: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$25k · 3 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
14

Total granted

$25k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-36%
+147%

Still filing today

33%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & 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

  • WC
    WEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $18k
  • MA
    MAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue -36%
  • KS
    KY SHERIFFS' BOYS & GIRLS RANCH
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k

Funded once

  • CF
    COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -45%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • CS
    CURE SKTAEBOARDING LLC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field
04the grantee network

5 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $18,200 · OtherWEXFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $10,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY OUTREACHCURE SKTAEBOARDING LLC — $10,000 · OtherCURE SKTAEBOARDING LLCWELFORD PANTATION CHARITABLE FUND — $5,000 · OtherWELFORD PANTATION CHARITABLE FUNDHENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $5,000 · OtherHENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYWEXFORD K9'S LLC — $2,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $2,500 · Other+7 more — $7,300 · Other+7 moreCOLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationCOLLEGE FOUNDATION INCMAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · PhilanthropyHENDERSON AREA ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureAUDUBON KIDS ZONE INC — $576 · Youth Development
Other$60,500Education$25,000Philanthropy$6,000Arts & Culture$1,000Youth Development$576

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHENDERSON AREA ARTS ALLIANCE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUDUBON KIDS ZONE INC — $576 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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 COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MAC ANGELS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
  • Who funds HENDERSON AREA ARTS ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds AUDUBON KIDS ZONE INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Charles E and Kelle G Branson Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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