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Ben F Bryer 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.

$350k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2025.

Education$940kHealth$300kArts & Culture$245kYouth Development$100kPhilanthropy$50k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
$125,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAI$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN--FLINT$125,000
FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$50,000
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25k → 17%REGENTS OF THE U OF MICHIGAN: $75k → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND HISTORY: $60k → 16%THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25k → 17%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%FLINT INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $50k → 16%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25k → 17%GLORIA COLES FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $40k → 16%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25k → 17%KETTERING UNIVERSITY: $75k → 16%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN--FLINT: $225k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAI: $150k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN--FLINT: $125k → 16%Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $150k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN--FLINT: $125k → 16%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION GREATER FLINT: $50k → 16%Sloan Museum: $135k → 16%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.

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 field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $550,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAI — $150,000 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MED AT MT SINAISloan Museum — $135,000 · OtherSloan MuseumFlint Institute of Science & History — $60,000 · OtherFlint Institute of Science & HistoryGLORIA COLES FLINT PUBLIC LIBRARY — $40,000 · OtherICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $150,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $125,000 · EducationThe New York Public Libr…Kettering University — $75,000 · EducationKettering UniversityBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $50,000 · PhilanthropyFlint Institute of Music — $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,085,000Education$350,000Youth Development$100,000Philanthropy$50,000Arts & Culture$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKettering University — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlint Institute of Science & History — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER FLINT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFlint Institute of Music — $50,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ben F Bryer 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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: 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.

    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 12 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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