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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.

$929k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$670kHuman Services$69kHousing & Shelter$60kHealth$31kCommunity Improvement$20kYouth Development$18kEducation$10kReligion$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $87,787, the rows itemized in this filing. The $929,241 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $841,454 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$768k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HO: $6k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $18k → 17%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
MO
AR
OK
GA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$693k · 10 repeat orgs$175k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$693k
$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-8%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HO
    HEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +6%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +33%
  • WH
    WELCOME HOME INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +106%
  • LC
    Love Columbia Corp Love Columbiagraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +59%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue -25%
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
Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

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2
United Way of the Midlands

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…

Philanthropy
3
United Way of Central Oklahoma Inc

United way of central oklahoma is committed to connecting people and resources to improve the well being of those in our community.

Philanthropy
4
United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley

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…

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5
United Way of the Columbia-Willamette

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…

Philanthropy
6
United Way of North Central Ohio Inc

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.

—
7
House Everyone Stl

Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.

Housing & Shelter
8
United Way of Greater Toledo

United way of greater toledo unites the caring power of people to improve lives.

Philanthropy
9
United Way of Greenville County Inc

We mobilize people and resources to improve lives, strengthen the community and advance equity for the benefit of all.

—
10
United Way of Missoula County

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…

Philanthropy
11
United Way of Central Arkansas Inc

To impact our community members by fostering a greater quality of life through initiatives focused on education, health, and financial stability.

Philanthropy
12
Heartland United Way Inc

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Ozarks Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $161,571 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INCUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC: $89,931 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INCUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC: $35,009 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INCUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $31,557 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INCTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $21,480 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,170 · PhilanthropyHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC: $138,102 · OtherHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INCUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $105,062 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas City IncWELCOME HOME INC: $30,000 · OtherWELCOME HOME INCHEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC: $24,984 · OtherHEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INCVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20,000 · Other+8 more: $63,148 · Other+8 moreTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $56,775 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $20,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 · HealthMercy Communities Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING PARTNERS OF TULSA: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $17,500 · Human ServicesCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $6,256 · Human ServicesDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST CHARLES COUNTY: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA: $5,973 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$344,718Other$381,296Community Improvement$56,775Health$31,000Housing & Shelter$30,000Human Services$23,756Youth Development$21,973

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $161,571 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC: $138,102 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $105,062 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC: $89,931 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $56,775 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC: $35,009 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS INC: $31,557 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWELCOME HOME INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHEART OF ILLINOIS UNITED WAY INC: $24,984 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $21,480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BLOOD CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $20,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Communities Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOUSING PARTNERS OF TULSA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Orphans Inc dba Tulsa Girls Home: $6,550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $6,256 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ST CHARLES COUNTY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA: $5,973 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARMANIS ANGELS INC: $5,300 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ILLINOIS INC: $5,170 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Veterans United Found…Commerce Bancshares F…United Way WorldwideThe Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Fred V & Dorothy H He…Grinnell Mutual Group…Boone Electric Commun…Allen P and Josephine…Orscheln Industries F…United Way of Greater…AT&T Foundation
Veterans United FoundationMO21.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Giving Branch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Giving Branch 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 11%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Giving Branch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Giving Branch Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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