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Brewers Association Inc

The brewers association will support the longevity of the craft brewing community by advancing these strategic objectives:-promote access to markets and raw materials(continued on schedule o)

$214k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$48k
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 FY2017–2023.

Employment$496kCommunity Improvement$175kHealth$100kHuman Services$48kFood & Nutrition$40kPhilanthropy$40kScience & Tech$23kEducation$10k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $55,468 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $214,194 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $158,726 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
$48,117
Median grant
2
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$48,117
NATIONAL BLACK BREWERS ASSOCIATION$7,351
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 (FY23–23, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $48k → 14%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

AK
VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
TN
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

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.

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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$443k · 10 repeat orgs$489k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$443k
$434k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23
Community ImprovementFood & NutritionMembership BenefitHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

  • BG
    Brewers Guild of Alaska
    2× · 2017–2018 · $52k · revenue +112% · 43% of their budget
  • KG
    KENTUCKY GUILD OF BREWERS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • NC
    Nebraska Craft Brewers Association
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • AB
    AMERICAN BEVERAGE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -99%
  • NB
    National Beer Wholesalers Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +30%
  • GT
    GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -41%

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
Craft Beer Colorado Inc

The Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG) is a nonprofit trade association with the mission to promote, protect, and propel independent craft breweries in the State of Craft Beer through advocacy, community, education, and public awareness. The…

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2
Iowa Brewers Guild

The iowa brewers guild is organized and operated exclusively for non-profit purposes. the association is organized to unify craft brewing professionals, promote iowa beer, and advocate for the industrys growth. the ibg engages in…

Community Improvement
3
Sacramento Area Brewers Guild

The organization exists to promote the responsible consumption of craft beer in the northern california region. it accomplishes this mission by hosting craft brew and home brew competition in conjuction with the california state fair, as…

Membership Benefit
4
Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild

Mcbg exists to promote, protect, and grow a robust minnesota craft brewing industry by building a healthy beer culture and community that allows for independent brewers, industry stakeholders, and craft beer fans to thrive.

Community Improvement
5
Master Brewers Association of the Americas Inc

The purpose of mbaa is to be a professional, scientific organization dedicated to advance, support, and encourage scientific research into brewing malt beverages and related industries and to make that research available to the public…

Education
6
Central Pennsylvania Tasting Trail

Promote tourism in Centre County PA

Community Improvement
7
American Breweriana Association Inc

Our mission is to advance the public knowledge of brewing and breweriana; to serve historians and collectors; and to preserve the memories and artifacts of america's breweries.

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8
New York State Brewers Association

The new york state brewers association is organized for the purpose of promoting craft brewing in new york state. the mission and purpose of the nysba is to represent, protect and promote its members and to further educate and inform the…

Community Improvement
9
American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America
Philanthropy
10
San Diego Brewers Guild

To educate the public of the benefits of fresh local beer, promote the interests of breweries located in the area of san diego county, and participate in community events to raise funds for charities and increase public awreness of locally…

Community Improvement
11
Brew Inc

Professional development, education & networking

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12
Brewnited
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Craft Brewers Association and the most unlike its peers is Community Resource Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%60%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%51%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund close more than the field — 13% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
13%
4/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,535

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.

04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/23
Grantees still filing
10/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN BEVERAGE INSTITUTE — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN BEVERAGE INSTITUTENational Beer Wholesalers Association Inc — $50,000 · OtherNational Beer Wholesalers Association IncMISSISSIPPI BREWERS GUILD — $45,000 · OtherMISSISSIPPI BREWERS GUILDVermont Brewers Association Inc — $35,500 · OtherVermont Brewers Association IncDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BREWERS GUILD — $34,500 · OtherDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BREWERS GUILDREAL LOCAL BEER INC — $25,000 · OtherREAL LOCAL BEER INCHOP GROWERS OF AMERICA INC — $25,000 · OtherHOP GROWERS OF AMERICA INCMICROSTAR KEG MANAGEMENT — $23,175 · OtherMICROSTAR KEG MANAGEMENTOklahoma Craft Brewers Guild Inc — $18,000 · Other+3 more — $25,101 · Other+3 moreMASSACHUSETTS BREWERS GUILD INC — $80,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS BREWERS GUILD INCKENTUCKY GUILD OF BREWERS INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY GUILD OF BREWERS INCALABAMA BREWERS GUILD INC — $46,428 · Community ImprovementALABAMA BREWERS GUILD INCLouisiana Craft Brewers Guild INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementLouisiana Craft Brewers Guild INCNebraska Craft Brewers Association — $30,250 · Community ImprovementNebraska Craft Brewers AssociationCONNECTICUT BREWERS GUILD INC — $30,000 · Community ImprovementCONNECTICUT BREWERS GUILD INCNEVADA CRAFT BREWERS ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNorth American Craft-Maltsters Guild Inc — $14,600 · Community ImprovementGARDEN STATE CRAFT BREWERS GUILD INC — $12,500 · Community ImprovementIDAHO BREWERS UNITED — $12,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $15,500 · Community ImprovementGRANITE STATE BREWERS ASSOCIATION — $39,875 · Food & NutritionUTAH BREWERS GUILD — $15,000 · Food & NutritionBrewers Guild of Alaska — $52,416 · Membership BenefitCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $48,117 · Human ServicesGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $40,000 · PhilanthropyMICHAEL JAMES JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR BREWING AND DISTILLING — $10,000 · Education
Other$381,276Community Improvement$346,278Food & Nutrition$54,875Membership Benefit$52,416Human Services$48,117Philanthropy$40,000Education$10,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN BEVERAGE INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BREWERS GUILD INC — $80,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBrewers Guild of Alaska — $52,416 over 2y, 43% of budgetNational Beer Wholesalers Association Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER — $48,117 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetALABAMA BREWERS GUILD INC — $46,428 over 2y, 28% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANITE STATE BREWERS ASSOCIATION — $39,875 over 2y, 25% of budgetVermont Brewers Association Inc — $35,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT BREWERS GUILD INC — $30,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetUTAH BREWERS GUILD — $15,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetGARDEN STATE CRAFT BREWERS GUILD INC — $12,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetMICHAEL JAMES JACKSON FOUNDATION FOR BREWING AND DISTILLING — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBREWERS OF PENNSYLVANIA — $5,500 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Brewers Association 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.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Vermont Brewers Association Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report 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 30 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $66k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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