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Brabson Library & Educational Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$408k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$894kEducation$321kEnvironment$275kAnimals$96kRecreation & Sports$83kInternational$73kCrime & Legal$72kYouth Development$48kHuman Services$44kOther$1.2M
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $333k
$8,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONSERVATION LAW CENTER$30,000
OUTREACH & TRANSFORM LIVES$28,000
EXPLORING BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS$25,000
WAM THEATRE$25,000
CALIFORNIA BOTANICAL GARDEN$20,000
BLACK WOMEN IN AVIATION$20,000
WONDERLAB MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$19,800
WORKING DOGS FOR CONSERVATION$19,650
REUNITY RESOURCES$19,000
SCIENCEWORKS HANDS ON MUSEUM$18,000
CHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS$18,000
KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC$16,650
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH$15,000
FIREBIRD MUSIC ENSEMBLES$15,000
HAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL$12,450
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 (FY18–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOYSVILLE INC: $2k → 16%PEOPLE ANIMALS LOVE: $8k → 14%THE VOICES AND FACES PROJECT: $33k → 14%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF ALBUQUERQUE: $2k → 14%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

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
TX
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 46 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

46 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
145

Total granted

$1.8M
$922k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+23%

Still filing today

59%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $313k 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
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

  • OS
    Opera Southwest
    7× · 2017–2024 · $402k · revenue +81%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $139k · revenue +76%
  • WT
    WAM THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $136k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • Indiana University Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $37k · revenue +65%
  • TV
    THE VOICES & FACES PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue 0%
  • BF
    BHG FOUNDATION DBA BLACKGIRLS HACK
    one grant, 2023 · $27k

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
Climate Museum

The climate museum's mission is to inspire action on the climate crisis with programming across the arts and sciences that deepens understanding, builds connections, and advances just solutions.

Arts & Culture
2
The New Childrens Museum

The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…

Arts & Culture
3
Museo De Las Americas

The Museo De Las Americas is dedicated to educating our community through collecting preserving interpreting and exhibiting the diverse arts and cultures of the Americas from ancient to contemporary through innovative exhibitions and…

Arts & Culture
4
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
5
Constellation Stage & Screen Inc

The mission of Constellation Stage & Screen is to produce world-class theater and film that impacts the national performing arts industry through new work development. Constellation's productions, community events, and education programs…

Arts & Culture
6
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba the Staten Island Museum

Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
California Nature Art Museum

To inspire our community and visitors to enjoy, value and conserve wildlife and natural areas through art. we provide artistic, educational and field experiences of nature for that purpose.

Arts & Culture
9
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.

Arts & Culture
10
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.

Arts & Culture
11
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
12
Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks

To ignite an enduring passion for nature that inspires action to ensure a thriving natural world.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moonlight Cultural Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Heartland Community Reconciliation Center. 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 backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsLocal History MuseumsElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Food PantriesLocal Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersSchool District FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsImmigrant Worker SupportSchool Parent OrganizationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…
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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/131
the rest of the field
13%
240,392/1,819,434

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.

04the grantee network

120 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. 120 of the 221 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/120
Grantees still filing
74/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMOUNTAIN ROAD SCHOOL — $96,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN ROAD SCHOOLWONDERLAB MUSUEM OF SCIENCE — $67,000 · OtherWONDERLAB MUSEUM OF SCIENCE HEALTH — $62,000 · OtherTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC — $67,500 · Other+113 more — $919,724 · Other+113 moreOpera Southwest — $401,500 · Arts & CultureOpera SouthwestWAM THEATRE INC — $135,800 · Arts & CultureWAM THEATRE INCOPERA MODESTO INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+34 more — $325,408 · Arts & Culture+34 moreWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $138,500 · EducationWASHINGTON …GOLDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $54,000 · EducationGOLDEN SCHO…Indiana University Foundation — $37,437 · EducationIndiana Uni…EXPLORING BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS INC — $25,000 · EducationEXPLORING B…+12 more — $65,582 · Education+12 moreFLYING DEER NATURE CENTER — $83,995 · EnvironmentFLYING DEE…INDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC — $61,000 · EnvironmentINDIANA FO…PHOENIX CONSERVANCY — $48,000 · EnvironmentPHOENIX CO…SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE — $25,250 · EnvironmentSKY ISLAND…REUNITY RESOURCES — $19,000 · EnvironmentREUNITY RE…FLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED — $9,500 · Environment+4 more — $18,000 · Environment+4 moreANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC — $30,000 · AnimalsFELIDAE CONSERVATION FUND — $16,000 · AnimalsHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,450 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE COEXISTENCE NETWORK INC — $10,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $6,000 · AnimalsPENINSULA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVEN- TION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC — $6,000 · Animals+2 more — $4,500 · AnimalsCHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS — $71,816 · Recreation & SportsCAPE COD CURLING CLUB INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsNordic Skiing Association of Anchorage — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsTEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC — $2,800 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,500 · Recreation & SportsMalembe Rise Inc — $34,500 · InternationalPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION — $17,000 · InternationalWomens Voices Now Inc — $14,000 · InternationalSOLARBUDDY INC — $7,000 · International
Other$1,312,224Arts & Culture$892,708Education$320,519Environment$274,745Animals$94,950Recreation & Sports$82,116International$72,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetOpera Southwest — $401,500 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $138,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAM THEATRE INC — $135,800 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetMOUNTAIN ROAD SCHOOL — $96,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetFLYING DEER NATURE CENTER — $83,995 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetCHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS — $71,816 over 7y, 17% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC — $67,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetINDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC — $61,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetGOLDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $54,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetPHOENIX CONSERVANCY — $48,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetIndiana University Foundation — $37,437 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMalembe Rise Inc — $34,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE VOICES & FACES PROJECT — $33,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW MEXICO YOUNG ACTORS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC — $30,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA MODESTO INC — $30,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE — $25,250 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEXPLORING BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetCHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS — $21,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LITQUAKE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBedlam Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC — $19,490 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPLAYING FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFELIDAE CONSERVATION FUND — $16,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWomens Voices Now Inc — $14,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART OF THE UNITED STATES — $13,478 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED — $13,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHAWKWATCH INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,450 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRICHLAND COUNTY FOUNDATION — $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFLYING CLOUD INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDEEPLY INGRAINED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKnow Theatre of Cincinnati — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetRiverside Arts Academy — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEARLY MUSIC ASSOCIATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDIXON MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBloomington Playwrights Project Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL WILDLIFE COEXISTENCE NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCHESAPEAKE ARTS CENTER INC — $9,800 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSYCAMORE LAND TRUST INCORPORATED — $9,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKARAT SCHOOL PROJECT — $9,400 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetEdventure Inc — $8,600 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds Opera Southwest
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds WAM THEATRE INC
  • Who funds MOUNTAIN ROAD SCHOOL
  • Who funds FLYING DEER NATURE CENTER
  • Who funds CHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS
  • Who funds THE CONSERVATION LAW CENTER INC
  • Who funds INDIANA FOREST ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds GOLDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PHOENIX CONSERVANCY
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation
  • Who funds Malembe Rise Inc
  • Who funds THE VOICES & FACES PROJECT
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO YOUNG ACTORS INC
  • Who funds ANIMAL HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF NEW MEXICO INC
  • Who funds OPERA MODESTO INC
  • Who funds SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE
  • Who funds EXPLORING BY THE SEAT OF YOUR PANTS INC
  • Who funds CHILD HUNGER OUTREACH PARTNERS
  • Who funds THE LITQUAKE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Bedlam Inc
  • Who funds NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NOBSKA LIGHT INC
  • Who funds REUNITY RESOURCES
  • Who funds Lighthouse Repertory Theatre Company Ltd
  • Who funds SCIENCEWORKS HANDS-ON MUSEUM

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.

Cape Cod Foundation IncMA22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Brown County Community Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Patagoniaorg · Ibm International Foundation · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane 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 Brabson Library & Educational Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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 · 90%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 5%
  • Duffy Health Center Inc51% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc16% of income from government
  • The Farm School Inc12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc11% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Arts Center Inc7% of income from government
  • Flying Cloud Institute Inc6% of income from government
  • Springfield Museums Corporation5% of income from government
  • Wam Theatre Inc4% of income from government
  • Firebird Music Ensembles Inc2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc1% of income from government
  • Historic Highfield Inc1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc1% of income from government
  • Scienceworks Hands-On Museum0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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How do I get to Brabson Library & Educational Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx?

Find your warmest path to Brabson Library & Educational Foundation Xxx-Xx-Xxxx 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 221 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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