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Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$74k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

6
’19
3
’20
5
’21
2
’22
4
’23
3
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$223kEducation$195kHealth$30kYouth Development$14kFood & Nutrition$12kArts & Culture$4kReligion$3kEnvironment$1kOther$0
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DELBARTON SCHOOL$50,000
TRI- COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND$6,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK$5,000
SUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL$5,000
FUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
WASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY$2,500
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Cornerstone Family Programs: $1k → 4%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 83% of Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 43% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 11%.

Brian Thebault Family Foundation Inclessmore 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172k · 5 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +135% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$172k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+135%
+23%

Still filing today

80%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • TS
    TRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    5× · 2019–2023 · $29k · revenue +140%
  • FF
    Foundation for Morristown Medical Center
    3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • HF
    HUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • Elon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +32%
  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -83%
  • TP
    THE PECK SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +23%
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
Foundation for Hackettstown Medical Center

To serve the philanthropic needs for the Hackettstown Medical Center.

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2
Historical Society of Princeton

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Summit Educational Foundation

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,…

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4
New Jersey Health Foundation Inc

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.

Health
5
Warren County College Foundation Inc

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.

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6
County College of Morris Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise and manage philanthropic gifts for the benefit of the college, its students and the community.

Education
7
Corporation for New Jersey Local Media

We build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
8
New Jersey Public Charter Schools Association a Nj Non Profit Corporation

To advance educational choice for new jersey's children through quality public charter schools.

Education
9
Historic Hudson Valley

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Humc Medical Observation Pa

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.

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11
Hudson Valley Community College Foundation

To receive and maintain funds to aid and advance the welfare, development, purposes and programs of hudson valley community college, its students and alumni.

Education
12
Union County College Foundation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs; 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.
05the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $192,718 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation IncTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATIONDELBARTON SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherDELBARTON SCHOOLTHE PECK SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherTHE PECK SCHOOLMane Stream Inc: $5,000 · OtherSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $8,500 · Other+6 moreElon University: $50,000 · EducationElon UniversityTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $29,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY SCHOLAR…Foundation for Morristown Medical Center: $20,000 · HealthHUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Food & NutritionTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$222,718Other$133,500Education$79,000Health$20,000Food & Nutrition$12,000Youth Development$11,000Arts & Culture$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $192,718 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $29,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PECK SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUDSON FARM FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NEWARK INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMane Stream Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMIT SPEECH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCORNERSTONE FAMILY PROGRAMS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARDING LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONE WEST 54TH STREET FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VERNON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Healey Family Foundat…Fm Kirby Foundation I…The Thebault Family F…The Fournier Family F…The John D and Eleano…Wicks Chapin IncThe Davino Family Fou…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…
Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ18.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Cornerstone Family Programs: 3% of income from government
  • Mane Stream Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 19 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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