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Braver Foundation Inc at a glance

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Braver 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.

$7k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$16kEducation$11kReligion$9kArts & Culture$6kHousing & Shelter$5kRecreation & Sports$3kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$32k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND$6,000
GENERATION SOS$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 (FY17–19, $520) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HDS FOUNDATION: $120 → 13%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $150 → 11%YWCA GREENWICH: $250 → 9%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

IL
NY
OH
NJ
CT
MO
KY
VA
MD
DC
GA
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 100% of Braver Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 0%.

Braver Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
27

Total granted

$19k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
    3× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +26%
  • AH
    AMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +120%
  • SV
    SOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $600 · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +13%
  • HW
    HOMES WITH HOPE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +8%
  • HS
    HACKLEY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +43%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Air & Space Forces Association

The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…

Education
5
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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6
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
8
Jfk Medical Associates Pa

Jfk medical associates, p.a. is committed to excellence in providing quality and compassionate healthcare services to diverse communities.

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Hackensack Specialty Care Associates Pc

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

Health
12
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lois Pope Life 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.
05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 40 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOMES WITH HOPE: $5,000 · OtherHOMES WITH HOPETEMPLE SHOLOM: $4,593 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOMCENTRAL SYNAGOGUE: $4,300 · OtherCENTRAL SYNAGOGUEPianofest Inc: $4,000 · OtherPianofest IncHACKLEY PARENT'S ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Other+17 more: $3,940 · Other+17 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $12,750 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLA…HACKLEY SCHOOL: $4,800 · HealthHACKLEY SCHOOLYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc: $1,500 · HealthYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc+4 more: $650 · HealthFAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $5,000 · EducationFAIRFIELD C…THE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $500 · EducationTHE GREENWI…FRIENDS OF WESTPORT PARKS AND RECREATION INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementLOIS POPE LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $100 · PhilanthropyWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureVIENNESE OPERA BALL: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $150 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $1,100 · AnimalsSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 · Animals
Other$22,833Health$19,700Education$5,500Community Improvement$2,500Philanthropy$2,100Arts & Culture$1,650Animals$1,200

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $12,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $4,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPianofest Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF WESTPORT PARKS AND RECREATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYoung Leadership Addiction Awareness Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOIS POPE LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON VILLAGE POLICE BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIENNESE OPERA BALL: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Center for Children and Adults Inc: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCos Cob Volunteer Fire Co #1 Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEW Foundation Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHDS FOUNDATION INC: $120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT LOAN FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $50 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.

Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Braver Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Braver Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 40 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home