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Bravo Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bravo Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

74% of Bravo Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’18
3
’19
3
’20
2
’21
6
’22
3
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$24MHealth$2.9MPhilanthropy$350kRecreation & Sports$180kArts & Culture$100kInternational$57kHuman Services$33kHousing & Shelter$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $900k
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.6M
$200,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$110M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE$1,500,000
STANDFORD UNIVERSITY$1,200,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE$1,000,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE$995,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$350,000
Individual grant recipient$347,500
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$250,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE$200,000
MCLEAN HOSPITAL$200,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$200,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$100,000
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
FUNDACION HERMANOS DE LA CALLE$21,851
JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%FUNDACION HERMANOS DE LA CALLE: $22k → 15%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

NY
MA
RI
CA
AZ
TX
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 81% of Bravo Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 4% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 56%.

Bravo Family Charitable Foundationlessmore 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 9 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$4.8M
$774k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+20%

Still filing today

56%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & 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

  • TB
    THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO
    2× · 2018–2020 · $350k · revenue +52%
  • TD
    TASIS DORADO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +133%
  • JM
    JOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • MC
    MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +56%
  • Teach for America Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • NI
    NEST INC
    one grant, 2023 · $57k · revenue +17%
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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Dominican University of California

Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.

Education
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Ie New York College

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Education
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Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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

19 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. 19 of the 27 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY: $18,475,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,400,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF TH…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,650,001 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SA…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $530,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UN…MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $500,000 · EducationMIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL IN…THE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $350,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $250,000 · Education+2 more: $300,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $1,250,500 · OtherIndividual …MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $550,000 · OtherMASS GENERA…MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $550,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SL…URBAN SCHOOL OF SF: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · Other+7 more: $230,847 · Other+7 moreTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $25,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 · Arts & CultureJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC: $70,000 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$18,475,000Education$6,980,001Other$2,811,347Philanthropy$350,000Health$125,000Arts & Culture$100,000Youth Development$70,000

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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $18,475,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,400,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,650,001 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $530,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BAY SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $350,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTASIS DORADO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNNY MAC TENNIS PROJECT INC: $70,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBORDER YOUTH TENNIS EXCHANGE INC: $60,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetNEST INC: $57,470 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMZURI WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFUNDACION HERMANOS DE LA CALLE INC: $21,851 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Bravo Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bravo Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Fundacion Hermanos De La Calle Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–20%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bravo Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bravo Family Charitable Foundation 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. 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
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
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