· Private foundation
Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
93% of Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $74k. 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELBARTON SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| TRI- COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $6,000 |
| SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 83% of Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in NJ; read by stated purpose it is 11% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TSTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND5× · 2019–2023 · $29k · revenue +55%
- FFFoundation for Morristown Medical Center3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +32%
- HFHUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +67%
Funded once
Elon Universitygraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +32%- TDTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -83%
- TPTHE PECK SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +23%
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.
To serve the philanthropic needs for the Hackettstown Medical Center.
Historical society of princeton develops signature programs of learning and discovery to connect the lessons of the past to the issues which inform our future.
To maintain and enhance the high quality of a summit, new jersey public school education through community funding of innovative and essential educational grants, a close working relationship with the school district, and careful review,…
The Organization's mission is to support healthcare education, research and patient care programs in the State of New Jersey and for other scientific, charitable, literary and educational purposes.
We serve to cultivate sustainable charitable resources, secure philanthropic grants, support capital needs, and provide educational opportunities in order to contribute to the health and vitality of our diverse community of learners.
The mission of the foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic gifts for the benefit of the college, its students and the community.
We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.
To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.
The organization's mission is to celebrate the history, architecture, landscape and material culture of the hudson valley, advancing its importance and thereby assuring its preservation.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.
The exempt purpose of the union county college foundation (foundation) is to undertake activities for the general benefit of ucnj union college of union county, nj (college), its students, faculty, staff, facilities and programs that will…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Hudson Farm Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Elon University ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Morristown Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC ↗
- Who funds Mane Stream Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds HARDING LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Healey Family Foundation · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · The Thebault Family Foundation Inc · The Fournier Family Foundation · The John D and Eleanore Carifa Foundation · Wicks Chapin Inc · The Davino Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 Brian Thebault Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- Mane Stream Inc — 1% of income from government
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.