· Private foundation
Brethren Community Foundation Inc
FOCUS ON GIVING TO BENEFIT SENIOR & YOUTH IN TWO METHODS; INDIV GRANTS & PROGRAMMATIC GRANTS TO NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS & SCHOOLS WHO SERVICE TARGET AUDIENCES.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Brethren Community Foundation Inc’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Orange County Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Brethren Community Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $617k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k8 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $358k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA | $147,500 |
| GLOBAL PARTNERS FOR DEVELOPMENT | $60,000 |
| IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW | $25,000 |
| WISEPLACE SHELTER FOR WOMEN | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FONTANA | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FULLERTON | $22,500 |
| KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELEOPMENT CENTER | $20,000 |
| URBAN YOUTH WORKERS INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| PRENTICE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $15,000 |
| PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC | $10,000 |
| FAME | $10,000 |
| HART COMMUNITY HOMES | $10,000 |
| MY DAY COUNTS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down. Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $122k · revenue +53%
- IYIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC4× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue ×18
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FULLERTON INC3× · 2018–2020 · $73k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- KCKIWANIS CLUB OF GREATER JAMUL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LA HARBORone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MUMILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $8k
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.
The boys & girls club of tracy's mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those most in need of our services, to realize and develop their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens in a global society.
The Antelope Valley Boys and Girls Club mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Boys and girls clubs provide a safe place for youth to develop character, leadership, education, career guidance, health, art, sports and fitness while becoming responsible and caring citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible & caring citizens.
To enable young people, especially those that need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible adults
Boys and girls club of hollywood provides educational programs in diverse subjects that are focused on providing structured learning to the children of our community.
Youth policy institute (ypi) transforms los angeles neighborhoods, reducing poverty by offering cradle to college & career services.
To enable all young people, especially those who need it the most to reach their full potential as productive and responsible citizens. the organization achieves its mission through educational programs, enrichment activities and organized…
Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. This is accomplished through activities provided for the children to participate in.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olive Crest and the most unlike its peers is Whittier College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Partners For Development ↗
- Who funds Whittier College ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FULLERTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Prentice School ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC MINISTRY CENTER ↗
- Who funds OLIVE CREST ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FONTANA ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY ADULT ACHIEVEMENT CENTER DBA MY DAY COUNTS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM 4 U ↗
- Who funds HART COMMUNITY HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds PRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DIGNITY GROUP ↗
- Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds South Bay Youth Clubs Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LONG BEACH ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Southern California Housing Services · Pacific Youth Foundation · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Brethren Community Foundation Inc 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.