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Brayton Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.0MPhilanthropy$953kEducation$585kHuman Services$77kRecreation & Sports$25kEnvironment$15kInternational$15kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k10 grants · $950k
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$120,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$600,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$120,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$120,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$120,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$120,000
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$120,000
ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$75,000
DAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$75,000
GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION IN$75,000
RANDOLPH TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$75,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$50,000
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 (FY21–22, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%OPEN TABLE INC: $1k → 11%PLACE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $1k → 4%H2O MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 20%AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%H2O MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 20%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

IL
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
AZ
TN
NC
LA
AL
GA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 33% of Brayton Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Brayton Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
37

Total granted

$1.6M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+43%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • HP
    HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +96%
  • AC
    Alamance Community College Foundation
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +3%
  • DC
    DAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $140k · revenue +523%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Home Society of North Carolina Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • VJ
    VICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +110%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE
    one grant, 2019 · $25k

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
Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region

Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.

Human Services
2
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
3
Conway Hospital Foundation Inc

The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…

Health
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
6
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation

To assist carteret general hospital in providing the best possible healthcare to the people of carteret county through fund raising programs that support community based programs, purchase of vital equipment, capital expansion, renovations…

Philanthropy
7
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
8
Carolina Small Business Development Fund

Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by providing capital, business services, and policy research to support small businesses.

Public Benefit
9
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
10
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
11
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
12
Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Point Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Community FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Social ServicesCancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Equine Therapy ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Addiction Recovery ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr14%33%20–35yr12%31%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%0%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%41%10–20yr14%2%20–35yr12%50%35–55yr12%7%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,137

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.

05the grantee network

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
34/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · HealthHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION+5 more — $12,250 · HealthFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $775,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE …Alamance Community College Foundation — $150,000 · OtherAlamance Community Co…DAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $140,000 · OtherDAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUN…RANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · OtherRANDOLPH COMMUNITY CO…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $25,000 · Other+19 more — $61,500 · Other+19 moreHigh Point Community Foundation — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC — $24,500 · PhilanthropyGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $3,125 · PhilanthropyGUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 · Education+6 more — $10,500 · EducationChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesH2O MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $4,250 · Human ServicesVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $10,000 · Youth Development
Health$1,012,250Community Improvement$775,000Other$516,500Philanthropy$187,625Education$150,500Human Services$39,250Youth Development$35,000

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 budgetHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $775,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlamance Community College Foundation — $150,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetDAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE — $140,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetRANDOLPH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetGUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $140,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHigh Point Community Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORY JUNCTION GANG CAMP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC — $24,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetH2O MINISTRIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKing's Ridge Christian School — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMON THREAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE HOUSE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNCG EXCELLENCE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONGHOLD RESCUE & RELIEF — $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of New Orleans Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFURKIDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Place of Forsyth County Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Associates of the Triad — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILE MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY OF HIGH POINT INC — $500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Earl and Kathryn Cong…Duke Energy FoundationThe Sink and Mickey F…The Ann G and Vann Yo…The Apat & Kathryne L…Foster Foundation IncStephen Knight Pond F…David R Hayworth Foun…Lenny Peters Foundati…Reynolds American Fou…Shell USA Company Fou…Amg Charitable Gift F…
Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family FoundationDE19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Sink and Mickey Family Foundation F/K/A the Mickey Truck Bodies Foundation · The Ann G and Vann York Foundation · The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation · Foster Foundation Inc · Stephen Knight Pond Foundation · David R Hayworth Foundation · Lenny Peters Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation

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 Brayton Family Charitable Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 50 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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