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Brackett Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$588kHuman Services$81kReligion$69kRecreation & Sports$52kInternational$44kYouth Development$43kArts & Culture$34kHealth$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORD MADDEN CHRSITIAN ACADEMY$20,000
BUGGY BUNCH$10,250
ZAC DULAC LEGACY FUND$10,000
LEGACY MINDED MEN$6,546
SEBASTIAN RIVER HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
MT DORA CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME$5,000
HARDING UNIVERSITY$3,750
Individual grant recipient$3,500
THE LEARNING ALLIANCE$3,500
INDIAN RIVER RESTAURANT SUPPLY$2,659
VETERANS COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER CO$2,500
LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS$2,500
CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER$2,500
IHCF - AFRICAN CHRISTIAN HOSPITALS$2,500
UNITED STATES KARATE & JIU JITSU$2,000
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 (FY18–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS: $11k → 12%LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS: $8k → 12%LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS: $3k → 12%LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS: $1k → 12%LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS: $250 → 12%LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS: $250 → 12%LEGACY MINDED MEN: $7k → 12%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $5k → 12%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $3k → 12%SENIOR RESOURCE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 12%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

NY
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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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$813k · 48 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
56

Total granted

$813k
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

42%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesReligionHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UA
    UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $42k · revenue +42%
  • LB
    LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +73%
  • CF
    Central Florida Bible Camp Inc
    4× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • AS
    AFRICAN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • LR
    LAURA RIDING JACKSON FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -20%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $15k

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
Florida Council of Independent Schools

Accrediting independent schools.

2
Coastal Christian High School Inc

Provide faith based education with an emphasis on college preparation.

Education
3
Innovation Charter School Inc

Innovation charter school empowers young ones for success as world changers through highly talented teachers using innovative and leading methods in a very loving environment.

Education
4
Vero Beach Crisis Pregnancy Ctr

Care net pregnancy center of indian river is a christ-centered ministry that builds upon the biblical principles of the sanctity of human life, sexual purity and adoption. care net is committed to providing compassionate help and practical…

Health
5
Trinity College of Florida Inc

The vision of Trinity College of Florida is to be the premier provider of a multifaceted and diversified higher learning four-year college which cultivates spiritual disciplines such as scripture study and directing learning toward what is…

Education
6
Heartland Christian School Inc

The mission of heartland christian academy (of heartland christian school, inc.) is to provide a university-ready education in a safe and wholesome environment, grounded in the christian faith.

Education
7
Florida College Inc

Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…

Education
8
University of Fort Lauderdale

The mission of the university of fort lauderdale is to be a premier christian institution of higher learning empowering future leaders through higher educational degrees rooted in biblical principles and academic excellence, to influence…

Education
9
Humane Society of Vero Beach and Indian River County Inc

None

Animals
10
Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc

Alleviate hunger by collection & distribution of donated food & other essentials in indian river, martin, okeechobee & st. lucie counties.

Food & Nutrition
11
South Florida Bible College & Theological Seminary Inc

South florida bible college & theological seminary is an institution of higher learning where the bible is central in preparing men and women for ministry to serve christ and his church through biblical thought and christian life.

Education
12
Chesterton Academy of Vero Beach Inc

The mission of CAVB is to provide a high school education that serves to raise up a generation of joyful leaders and saints, educated in the classical tradition and the truths of the Catholic faith, abounding in the skills and character…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Veterans Council of Indian River Co and the most unlike its peers is Laura Riding Jackson 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.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%41%10–20yr21%28%20–35yr12%9%35–55yr13%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%6%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%70%10–20yr21%11%20–35yr12%9%35–55yr13%4%55yr+

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
12%
105/874

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

33 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. 33 of the 114 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Harding University Inc — $185,130 · OtherHarding University IncUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC — $41,500 · OtherUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INCFORD MADDEN CHRSITIAN ACADEMY — $37,200 · OtherFORD MADDEN CHRSITIAN ACADEMYINDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE FOUND — $24,999 · OtherMT DORA CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME — $24,000 · OtherVERO BEACH CHURCH OF CHRIST INC — $24,000 · Other+87 more — $273,532 · Other+87 moreTHE BUGGY BUNCH INC — $180,050 · EducationTHE BUGGY BUNCH INCVERO CLASSICAL SCHOOL INC — $17,250 · EducationVERO CLASSICAL SCHOOL INCMASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC — $11,250 · EducationINDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $11,200 · Education+3 more — $7,850 · EducationLITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS INC — $22,920 · Human ServicesSenior Resource Association Inc — $15,500 · Human ServicesLIVE LIKE COLE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesLegacy Minded Ministries — $6,546 · Human ServicesLAURA RIDING JACKSON FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureVETERANS COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER CO — $13,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $250 · Arts & CultureCentral Florida Bible Camp Inc — $22,100 · ReligionIdols Aside Ministries Inc — $2,705 · ReligionA Time to Revive — $1,400 · ReligionCHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC — $1,000 · ReligionDIAMOND BOOSTER CLUB INC — $11,825 · Recreation & SportsCROSSOVER MISSION INC — $8,500 · Youth Development
Other$610,361Education$227,600Human Services$64,466Arts & Culture$28,250Religion$27,205Recreation & Sports$11,825Youth Development$8,500

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 budgetHarding University Inc — $185,130 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUGGY BUNCH INC — $180,050 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC — $41,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS INC — $22,920 over 6y, 11% of budgetCentral Florida Bible Camp Inc — $22,100 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetVERO CLASSICAL SCHOOL INC — $17,250 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSenior Resource Association Inc — $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAURA RIDING JACKSON FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetVETERANS COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER CO — $13,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLIVE LIKE COLE FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 3y, 46% of budgetDIAMOND BOOSTER CLUB INC — $11,825 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetMASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC — $11,250 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetINDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC — $11,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSOVER MISSION INC — $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLegacy Minded Ministries — $6,546 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $5,995 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVERO BEACH POLICE FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetIdols Aside Ministries Inc — $2,705 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAULKNER UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCoastal Connections Inc — $1,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCHES OF CHRIST DISASTER RELIEF EFFORT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS MANOR OF VERO BEACHINC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $550 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINDIAN RIVER COUNTY HEALTHY START COALITION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Harding University Inc
  • Who funds THE BUGGY BUNCH INC
  • Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC
  • Who funds LITTLE BIRTHDAY ANGELS INC
  • Who funds Central Florida Bible Camp Inc
  • Who funds VERO CLASSICAL SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds Senior Resource Association Inc
  • Who funds LAURA RIDING JACKSON FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds VETERANS COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER CO
  • Who funds LIVE LIKE COLE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DIAMOND BOOSTER CLUB INC
  • Who funds MASTER'S ACADEMY OF VERO BEACH INC
  • Who funds INDIAN RIVER CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC
  • Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC
  • Who funds Legacy Minded Ministries
  • Who funds SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC

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.

Bernard a Egan Foundation IncFL38.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · The Kahle Foundation Inc · Jake Owen Foundation · Archie S Wingfield Jr Charitable Trust U/A/D 5/15/1995 · The John's Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Indian River County Inc · Impact 100 of Indian River County · Grand Harbor Community Outreach Program Inc · John's Island Community Service League Inc · Sad 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Brackett Family Foundation Inc 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 · 120%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Indian River Charter High School Inc6% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
6report 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, 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 Brackett Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Brackett Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 114 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.

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