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Brayton Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DAVIDSON-DAVIE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$75,000
GUILFORD TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION IN$75,000
ALAMANCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$75,000
RANDOLPH TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$75,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$50,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%OPEN TABLE INC: $1k → 11%PLACE OF FORSYTH COUNTY INC: $1k → 4%H2O MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 20%H2O MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 20%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
WI
NY
MA
PA
CA
AZ
TN
NC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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 33% of Brayton Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brayton 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Point Regional Health Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

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

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 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.

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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
34/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetTHE COMMON THREAD FOR THE CURE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKing's Ridge Christian School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS EQUUSEARCH MOUNTED SEARCH AND RECOVERY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTRONGHOLD RESCUE & RELIEF: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFURKIDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HOME FURNISHINGS HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetUniversity of New Orleans Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $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
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.

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

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 Brayton Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brayton Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    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 50 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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