· Private foundation
Bray Charitable Tr Cash Acct
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLINT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | $112,089 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| MICHIGAN YOUTH BALLET THEATRE | $3,000 |
| WOMENS BEAN PROJECT | $2,000 |
| ART COUNCIL OF WHITE LAKE | $2,000 |
| FLINT CULTURAL CENTER CORP INC | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FIFlint Institute of Arts6× · 2020–2025 · $659k · revenue +38%
- CDCHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +38%
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT5× · 2020–2025 · $16k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FPFamily Promise of Mid Michiganone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +21%
- TNTHE NEW MCCREE THEATREone grant, 2020 · $1k
- TBTHE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +91%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To inspire a love for learning in science, technology, engineering, math, and art, and awaken imagination through hands-on play.
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
Michigan casa, inc. is dedicated to changing the lives of abused and neglected children by advocating for their best interests through establishing, supporting, and expanding quality casa programs throughout the state of michigan to ensure…
The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center connects people of all ages and abilities with visual arts education, exhibitions, and other creative experiences.
To promote the common economic interests of all the commercial enterprises in the Genesee County, Michigan community. The Organization strives to enhance the business climate in the area and advocates for public policy that supports…
To promote a violence free atmosphere from domestic and sexual violence in which survivors can recognize their options to have the opportunity to continue living violence free and regain their sense of self-worth; to educate and raise…
Touching hearts, teaching minds, changing lives
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
To offer education, assistance and resources to women and families in the greater lansing area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ele's Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bottomless Toy Chest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 19 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Flint Institute of Arts ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIABETES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER FLINT ↗
- Who funds EVERY WOMAN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Flint Cultural Center Corporation ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Greater Flint ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WHITE LAKE ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ELE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN YOUTH BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Mid Michigan ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOMLESS TOY CHEST 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.
Open a dossier: Consumers Energy Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · The Whiting Foundation · Stella & Frederick Loeb Charitable Trust · The Serra Foundation · Merkley Charitable Trust · Nartel Family Foundation · The Hagerman Foundation · Ruth Mott Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Bray Charitable Tr Cash Acct 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.