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Alexander Brady 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.

$527k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of Alexander Brady Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 57 grants below total $385,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $526,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $141,000 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 $10k46 grants · $161k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $170k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Johns Hopkins University$55,000
Help Our Wounded Foundation$30,000
Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS$28,000
Wounded Veterans Relief Fund$25,000
Land Conservation Assistance Network$20,000
The Hill School$15,000
Arlington Unitarian Cooperative Preschool$11,500
Great Meadow Foundation$10,000
The Plains Park Authority$10,000
Trinity Episcopal Church$10,000
Tara Foundation$10,000
Byte Back, Inc.$7,500
La Clinica Del Pueblo$7,500
Partnership for Public Service$6,000
Escuela Key Elementary PTA$5,000
02Your 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1000k · 50 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
25

Total granted

$1000k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+43%

Still filing today

82%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther

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

  • HO
    Help Our Wounded Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $96k · revenue +80%
  • TH
    THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG
    3× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +49%
  • TD
    THE DELTA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • MC
    Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins
    one grant, 2023 · $24k
  • AE
    African Environmental Film Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TF
    Tara Foundation Camps
    one grant, 2023 · $8k

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

03Your 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
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
2
The George Washington Foundation

The mission of the george washington foundation is to enhance the public understanding of the lives, values, and legacies of george washington, fielding and betty washington lewis and their family members, particularly in the broader…

Arts & Culture
3
Virginia Forestry Association

Vfa promotes stewardship and wise use of the commonwealth's forest resources for the economic and environmental benefits of all virginians.

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4
Goochland Educational Foundation Incorporated

The Goochland Education Foundation mission is to provide funding for innovative learning opportunities for Goochland County Public School students.

Education
5
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
6
Virginia Capital Trail Foundation

The virginia capital trail foundation exists to protect, promote, and enhance the virginia capital trail and engage communities around it.

Recreation & Sports
7
James River Association

The mission of the james river association is to be guardian of the james river. we provide a voice for the river and take action to promote conservation and responsible stewardship of its natural resources.

Environment
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
10
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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11
The Virginia Air & Space Center

To serve as the region's leading source of informational science education through interactive science demonstrations, hands-on education programs and outreach programs.

Arts & Culture
12
The Land Trust of Virginia Inc

To operate as ltv for the purpose of promoting the preservation, protection and balanced use of natural, scenic, and historic resources in the commonwealth of virginia through conservation easements and ownership.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dietz Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVeteran Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy and …School Parent-Teacher Organ…Government Accountability &…Charter and Independent Sch…Food Pantries and AssistanceVolunteer Fire & RescueLocal History MuseumsUrban Agriculture EducationAnimal Rescue and ShelterEducation Equity InitiativesCommunity Theater CompaniesCommunity Hospital SystemsEarly Childhood Care CentersGirls Stem Education Progra…Christian Outreach Ministri…Community Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr18%28%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%36%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr15%20%35–55yr15%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/60
the rest of the field
13%
6,445/50,408

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.

03the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 89 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/58
Grantees still filing
32/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Johns Hopkins University — $169,000 · OtherJohns Hopkins UniversityMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $80,000 · OtherMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INCMerrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS — $28,000 · OtherLSSNCA — $27,500 · OtherMerrill Center for Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins — $24,000 · OtherOLD SCHOOL SQUARE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $23,000 · Other+48 more — $276,500 · Other+48 moreHelp Our Wounded Foundation — $96,000 · HealthHelp Our Wou…LA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC — $22,500 · HealthLA CLINICA D…THE 22 PROJECT INC — $8,000 · HealthTHE 22 PROJE…WOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED VET…Seven Loaves Services Inc — $13,000 · Human ServicesSeven Loave…ARLINGTON UNITARIAN COOPERATIVE PRESCHOOL — $11,500 · Human ServicesARLINGTON U…+4 more — $9,500 · Human Services+4 moreTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG — $40,000 · EducationTHE HILL SC…THE DELTA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationTHE DELTA S…WiseTribe US Inc — $20,000 · EducationWiseTribe U…Escuela Key Elementary PTA — $10,000 · EducationEscuela Key…WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $7,000 · EducationWOODBERRY F…+4 more — $8,200 · Education+4 moreGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC — $47,000 · EnvironmentGREAT MEAD…THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA — $18,000 · EnvironmentTHE IZAAK …THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $12,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMO…GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentGOOSE CREE…CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE…FRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARK — $6,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF…THE DOWNSTREAM PROJECT — $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE DOWNST…THE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $23,500 · InternationalGIRL SECURITY AN ILLINOIS NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION — $9,000 · InternationalBE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · InternationalCenter for a New American Security Inc — $3,000 · International+1 more — $1,000 · InternationalLand Conservation Assistance Network — $30,000 · PhilanthropyEat Better Live Better Inc — $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$628,000Health$126,500Human Services$124,000Education$115,200Environment$110,000International$43,500Philanthropy$36,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHelp Our Wounded Foundation — $96,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetWOUNDED VETERANS RELIEF FUND INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMIDDLEBURG COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $80,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetGREAT MEADOW FOUNDATION INC — $47,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DELTA SIGMA PHI FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLand Conservation Assistance Network — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD SCHOOL SQUARE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $23,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetLA CLINICA DEL PUEBLO INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWiseTribe US Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA — $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBYTE BACK — $16,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSeven Loaves Services Inc — $13,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLAINS COMMUNITY LEAGUE — $11,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEscuela Key Elementary PTA — $10,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetAFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL FILM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetA PLACE TO BE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SECURITY AN ILLINOIS NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE 22 PROJECT INC — $8,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE JAMES RIVER PARK — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDELRAY CHAMBER EDUCATION FUND INC — $6,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE DOWNSTREAM PROJECT — $6,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetRICHMOND PERFORMING ARTS ALLIANCE — $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEat Better Live Better Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRICHMOND POLICE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF VIRGINIA INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRichmond Fire Department Foundation — $4,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING — $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Madeira School — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLower Mississippi River Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPIEDMONT CHILD CARE CENTER INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Dietz Foundation — $2,700 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHAVEN OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Wise FoundationThe Van Metre Family …MRC Full Circle Found…Tara Foundation IncDun FoundationVirginia S Warner Fou…McGraw FoundationFrank Mangano Foundat…The Luminescence Foun…The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…The Hall Family Found…
Wise FoundationVA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wise Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · MRC Full Circle Foundation · Tara Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · Virginia S Warner Foundation Inc · McGraw Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · The Luminescence Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Hall Family Foundation Inc

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Alexander Brady Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alexander Brady 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 89 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $595k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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