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The Giving Branch Foundation
The purpose of THE GIVING BRANCH FOUNDATION is to benefit and support individuals and families in need in the communities in which the offices of flat branch mortgage, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $87,787 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $929,241 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $841,454 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC | $18,943 |
| HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC | $16,700 |
| COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARK | $13,000 |
| OPERATION HOPE INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $9,470 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS | $7,874 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI | $6,233 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI | $5,567 |
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 (FY21–21, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HOHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +2%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +33%
- WHWELCOME HOME INC2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +76%
Funded once
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +48%- LCLove Columbia Corp Love Columbiagraduatedone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +59%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -25%
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 tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
United way connects people and resources to improve the quality of life in the midlands. united way invests in a broad range of community programs that increase access to health care, improve student success, assist people in crisis to…
United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.
Uniting people and resources to build thriving and resilient communities. We find every dollar we can to address these critical issues, but we are more than fundraisers. Our work is centralized around four focus areas; developing housing…
At United Way of the Columbia-Willamette (UWCW), we envision an Oregon and Southwest Washington where every child and family - regardless of geography, race, or family incomehas a stable foundation and access to the resources and support…
At united way of north central ohio, we bring people, organizations, and resources together to create solutions that improve the lives of every person in every community in our region.
Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.
United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.
We mobilize people and resources to improve lives, strengthen the community and advance equity for the benefit of all.
United way of missoula county builds a better community for all, especially in the areas of education, financial stability, and health. we collaborate with diverse community partners to identify important social issues and bring together…
To impact our community members by fostering a greater quality of life through initiatives focused on education, health, and financial stability.
To improve people's lives and create possibilities in hall, hamilton, howard & merrick counties. heartland united way brings together diverse community stakeholders, partners, and contributors to change community conditions to improve…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Ozarks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Armanis Angels Inc. 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 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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 30 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 UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING PARTNERS OF TULSA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Orphans Inc dba Tulsa Girls Home ↗
- Who funds Junior Association of the Tulsa Boys Home Inc ↗
- Who funds Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST CHARLES COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA ↗
- Who funds ARMANIS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC ↗
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: Veterans United Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Grinnell Mutual Group Foundation · Boone Electric Community Trust · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · AT&T 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 organization The Giving Branch 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.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% 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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