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Brasuell Simmons Foundation Inc at a glance

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Brasuell Simmons 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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$58kHuman Services$38kEducation$25kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$5kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1kArts & Culture$100
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$5,181
Median grant
1
States reached
$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grace Resurrection Methodist Church$12,000
Global Servant Leaders$10,029
Cobb Community Foundation$5,181
BrightPoint for Children$2,613
The 410 Bridge$2,575
Emory University$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BrightPoint for Children: $25k → 8%The 410 Bridge: $3k → 13%BrightPoint for Children: $3k → 8%The 410 Bridge: $3k → 13%BrightPoint for Chidlren: $1k → 8%The 410 Bridge: $2k → 13%BrightPoint for Children: $1k → 8%The 410 Bridge: $256 → 13%BrightPoint for Children: $500 → 8%BrightPoint for Chidlren: $5 → 8%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 5 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$93k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+13%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationInternationalReligionArts & CultureOther
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

  • BF
    BRIGHTPOINT FOR CHILDREN INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $31k · revenue +89%
  • EU
    Emory University
    3× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +15%
  • LF
    Lighthouse Family Retreat Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SO
    Seeds of Hope
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • MM
    Must Ministries Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
  • CC
    Crohn's Colitis Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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.

1
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

—
3
Medical Mission International - Usa

To relieve and alleviate human suffering, misery, poverty, sickness, and distress throughout the world by providing emergency medical relief, funding, and support.

Religion
4
Baptist Health System Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

Health
5
Baptist Health System Foundation Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

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6
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
7
Bloodwater Mission Inc

Bloodwater mission, inc. (the organization) is a not-for-profit organization registered in nashville, tennessee that operates an international nonprofit that partners with african community-driven organizations to end water and hiv/aids…

Religion
8
Youth for Christ International Ministries

As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.

Religion
9
Corus International Inc

TO MANAGE AN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, HEALTH, AND RELIEF FOCUSED FAMILY OF ORGANIZATIONS HELPING PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES LIFT THEMSELVES OUT OF POVERTY, SUPPORT WELL-BEING OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES, AND PROVIDE…

Human Services
10
Bluesky Global Ministries Inc

Bluesky global ministries' vision is to see the multinational community of nairobi, kenya, spiritually transformed and equipped to influence the world for god's glory. we pursue this by building relationships through adventure, using three…

Religion
11
Christian Healthcare Ministries Inc

To glorify god, show christian love, and experience god's presence as christians share each other's medical bills.

Religion
12
Medical Benevolence Foundation

Medical benevolence foundation (mbf) is a christ-centered organization dedicated to transforming lives by building sustainable health care ministries in developing countries. mbf equips the indigenous church to meet the healthcare needs of…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRACE RESURRECTION METHODIST CHURCH INC: $37,000 · OtherGRACE RESURRECTION METHODIST CHURCH IN…Seeds of Hope: $10,000 · OtherSeeds of Hope+2 more: $2,000 · OtherBRIGHTPOINT FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,980 · Human ServicesBRIGHTPOINT FOR CHILDREN INCMust Ministries Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesMust Ministries IncTHE 410 BRIDGE INC: $6,831 · Human ServicesTHE 410 BRIDGE INCCOBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,181 · Arts & CultureCOBB COMMUNI…+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureEmory University: $15,000 · EducationEmory Unive…Global Servant Leaders Inc: $10,029 · ReligionLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $3,060 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 · HealthCONVOY OF HOPE: $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · International
Other$49,000Human Services$47,811Arts & Culture$15,281Education$15,000Religion$10,029Health$3,560International$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIGHTPOINT FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,980 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetCOBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $15,181 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Servant Leaders Inc: $10,029 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMust Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 410 BRIDGE INC: $6,831 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $3,060 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalton Band Parents Association Inc: $100 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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Brasuell Simmons Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brasuell Simmons Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Brasuell Simmons Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Brasuell Simmons 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 15 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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