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Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inc at a glance

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Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inc

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$8k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$555kPhilanthropy$475kArts & Culture$96kHuman Services$69kEducation$67kInternational$65kCrime & Legal$33kYouth Development$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$419k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMENS JUSTICE INITIATIVE INC$8,000
CHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC$5,500
FIVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC$5,000
CENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION$5,000
GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC$900
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT NIGHT NIGHT: $2k → 10%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $10k → 20%CHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 10%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $10k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $10k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $10k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $10k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $5k → 20%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $10k → 17%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMA: $3k → 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

VT
NY
PA
CT
RI
CA
NC
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 36% of Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 35% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 10 repeat orgs$140k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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13

Total granted

$1.3M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +57%
  • LT
    Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $475k · revenue +38%
  • YG
    YOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • QF
    QUOGUE FREE LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • TM
    TREK MEDICS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • BB
    BURR & BURTON SEMINARY
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.

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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
4
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.

Education
5
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
10
Future Problem Solving Program International Inc

Future problem solving proudly celebrates more than 50 years of placing close to a million young people at the core of a dynamic, purposeful learning experience. each year k-12 students from around the world participate in a variety of…

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11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is You Gotta Believe - the Older Child Adoption & Permanency Movement Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lodigiano Film Development Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 25 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $475,000 · OtherLost Tree Village Charitable FoundationGREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $80,000 · OtherGREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INCTREK MEDICS INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · Other+7 more: $28,000 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONQUOGUE FREE LIBRARY INC: $50,000 · EducationWomens Justice Initiative Inc: $40,500 · EducationBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $10,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EducationTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,800 · EducationYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesCHASIN A DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesTREK MEDICS INTERNATIONAL INC: $65,000 · InternationalPATHWAYS INC: $20,000 · HealthVWM FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $10,000 · HealthFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Youth Development
Other$608,000Philanthropy$500,000Education$112,300Human Services$74,500International$65,000Health$50,000Youth Development$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $475,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetGREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $80,000 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetYOU GOTTA BELIEVE - THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC: $67,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTREK MEDICS INTERNATIONAL INC: $65,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetQUOGUE FREE LIBRARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWomens Justice Initiative Inc: $40,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVWM FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT NIGHT NIGHT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLODIGIANO FILM DEVELOPMENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Bessemer Giving F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bessemer Giving FundNJ12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bessemer Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Pathways Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Burr & Burton Seminary: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bill and Ann Bresnan Foundation Inc 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 25 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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