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Willow Branch Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
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 FY20212025.

Environment$311kEducation$89kFood & Nutrition$81kRecreation & Sports$63kAnimals$28kHealth$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
$7,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOK TOWERS GARDENS$30,000
AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION$20,000
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION$17,000
FEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC$8,000
SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC$7,500
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY FLORIDA CHAPTER$7,500
SHELBURNE FARMS$7,500
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$7,500
USAFA PARENTS CLUB OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC$5,000
FLORIDA WILDLIFE CORRIDOR$5,000
APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY$5,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.

area typical 11%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 13%Canine Companions For Independence: $5k → 13%Canine Companions For Independence: $5k → 13%Canine Companions For Independence: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
MI
NY
CO
WV
NC
DC
HI
GA
FL

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$562k · 15 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$562k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
0%

Still filing today

80%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BT
    BOK TOWER GARDENS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +27%
  • BR
    BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +73%
  • SB
    SEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • CAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • FS
    FLORIDA SCHOOL OF HOLISTIC LIVINGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +78%
  • PN
    PROJECT N95 INC
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue 0%

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
University of Florida Leadership and Education Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively to receive, hold, invest, and administer property and to make expenditures to or for the benefit of the university of florida. more specifically, the foundation is organized to…

Public Benefit
2
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
3
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
4
Florida State Parks Foundation Inc

Florida state parks foundation preserves, protects, sustains and grows florida state parks.

Recreation & Sports
5
Uhiwai O Haleakala

The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…

Environment
6
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

7
Florida Forestry Association

To promote the responsible use of florida's forest resources

8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

9
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
10
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
11
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
12
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Florida State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. 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

20 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. 20 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOK TOWER GARDENS INC — $135,000 · OtherBOK TOWER GARDENS INCSpanish River Community High School PTSA — $33,500 · OtherSpanish River Community High School PTSAThe Nature Conservancy Tiger Creek Preserve — $30,000 · OtherThe Nature Conservancy Tiger Creek PreserveUniversity of Michigan — $25,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY FLORIDA CHAPTER — $15,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY FLORIDA CHAPTER+6 more — $22,500 · Other+6 moreBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $81,000 · EnvironmentBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUND…SHELBURNE FARMS — $28,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMSFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc — $20,000 · EnvironmentFlorida Wildlife Corrido…+1 more — $1,500 · EnvironmentSEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC — $62,500 · EducationSEMINOLE BOOSTERS …The Florida State University Foundation Inc — $29,000 · EducationThe Florida State …FLORIDA SCHOOL OF HOLISTIC LIVING — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $1,500 · EducationFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC — $37,500 · Food & NutritionTHE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Food & NutritionCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $23,000 · Recreation & SportsAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$261,000Environment$130,500Education$98,000Food & Nutrition$47,500Human Services$27,500Recreation & Sports$23,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOK TOWER GARDENS INC — $135,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $81,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSEMINOLE BOOSTERS INC — $62,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING AVERY FAMILIES INC — $37,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Florida State University Foundation Inc — $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $25,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAPPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY — $23,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAROLINA FARM STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA SCHOOL OF HOLISTIC LIVING — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWILLIAMS YMCA OF AVERY COUNTY — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT N95 INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIVE HAWAIIAN ADVANCEMENT — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKE AO HALII — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Duke Energy FoundationNC13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Duke Energy Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 organization Willow 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Shelburne Farms3% of income from government
  • Bok Tower Gardens Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
7report 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, 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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Willow Branch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Willow 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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