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· Private foundation
VOLLBRACHT FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$65k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants
2
Communities
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0170% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Philanthropy$155kHealth$115kHuman Services$42kAnimals$30kEducation$15kEnvironment$5kOther$154k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
down syndrome
2020
—
2021
—
2022
—
2023
horse rescue
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GOLD CROWN FOUNDATION$15,000
- TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE$10,000
- SAFE LANDING HORSE RESCUE$10,000
- GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION$10,000
- JUDI'S HOUSE$10,000
- FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON$5,000
- DRIFTERS HEARTS OF HOPE$5,000
02The need
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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:
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$439k · 11 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
7
Total granted
$439k
$57k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+49%
+157%
Still filing today
55%
43%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationEnvironmentOther
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
- GCGold Crown Foundation7× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +13%
- JHJudi's House7× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +49%
- DSDOWN SYNDROME COMMUNITY OF PUGET SOUND4× · 2018–2021 · $27k · revenue +492%
Funded once
- HCHARING CENTERone grant, 2022 · $15k
- SCSUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +157%
- SCST CATHERINE'S SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Drage Second Chance Ranch
Animals
2
Dog Gone Seattle
Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100%…
Animals
3
The Misfit Crew Sanctuary Inc
Rescues and provides home for horses
Animals
4
Down Syndrome Connection of the Bay Area
Our mission is to empower, inspire and support people with Down Syndrome, their families and the community that serves them, while fostering awareness and acceptance in all areas of life.
Health
5
Arc of Snohomish County
To serve individuals with developmental disabilities and their families
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6
Herding Dog Rescue of Central Oregon
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
Animals
7
Colorado Horse Rescue Network
Colorado Horse Rescue Network was established in 2013 after several founding members saw the need for a state-wide organization to help needy equines. CHRN has a central facility Rush, CO and a network of foster homes all over the state.…
Animals
8
Eastern Idaho Down Syndrome Family
Our mission is to build a positive connection between individuals with down syndrome, their families, and eastern idaho. we do this by providing education, advocacy, support, and resources to help facilitate inclusion within the local…
Human Services
9
National Down Syndrome Society
The National Down Syndrome Society empowers individuals with Down syndrome and their families by driving policy change, providing resources, engaging with local communities, and shifting public perceptions.
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10
Oregon Horse Rescue
Youth Development
11
SpiritHorse Connections
To assist people with special needs in realizing their full potential through intervention with horses.
Human Services
12
Wa High School Equestrian Teams
Recreation & Sports
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judi's House Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Friendship Circle of Washington. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Philanthropy$155,000Other$154,000Health$115,000Human Services$42,000Animals$30,000Education$15,000Environment$5,000
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 GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Gold Crown Foundation ↗
- Who funds Judi's House ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME COMMUNITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds DRIFTERS HEARTS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TEROLYN HORSE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO OPEN LANDS ↗
- Who funds PetAid Colorado ↗
- Who funds CRAIG HOSPITAL ↗
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.
Colorado Gives FoundationCO13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation VOLLBRACHT 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DRIFTERS HEARTS OF HOPE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 472171682 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on DRIFTERS HEARTS OF HOPE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Vollbracht Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Vollbracht Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines