· Private foundation
Brewer Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEMSON FOUNDATION | $23,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TAR RIVER | $22,500 |
| UNCW | $15,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY | $11,760 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $9,745 |
| VIRGINIA EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $5,700 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,350 |
| JESSE HELMS CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RMROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +74%
- NSNC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $45k · revenue +115%
- IIPTAY2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- OVOAK VIEW BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $9k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
- NHNASH HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
To enhance the university of north carolina at wilmington educational mission, without limitation, overseeing and assisting with the acquisition and financing of capital assets for the university.
To connect and involve alumni, students, and friends in the promotion and advancement of the university. the alumni association promotes, encourages, and supports unity and involvement among alumni, students, university, and friends.
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
To support public school adminisrators in north carolina through services in communications, professional development, and public policy.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
To pursue the development of research facilities and research projects for the university of north carolina at wilmington.
Promote, coordinate, and develop youth soccer.
To market the upstate sc region to attract business investment. to support economic development efforts of the upstate alliance investors. to build cohesive relationships among the region's private and public sectors.
To change lives through challenge and discovery.
Educational instruciton for students in prek-12th grades.
The nc state alumni association engages alumni and friends through programs and services that foster pride and enhance a lifelong connection to nc state university ("nc state").
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brewer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brewer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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