· Private foundation
Britton Fund 4240-00-44
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND METROPARKS | $1,000,000 |
| CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART | $1,000,000 |
| Lake Champlain Maritime Museum | $115,000 |
| Herreshoff Marine Museum | $25,000 |
| Burr & Burton Academy | $25,000 |
| Blue Sky Bridge | $25,000 |
| Intercambio Uniting Communities | $25,000 |
| EFAA | $20,000 |
| Boulder Ballet Company & School | $20,000 |
| Dairy Arts | $10,000 |
| Vocational Guidance Services | $7,500 |
| HEALTHY ACADIA | $5,000 |
| Down East Salmon Federation | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $284k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- GAGROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC2× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +115%
- EFEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +28%
- IDINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- MOMuseum of Contemporary Artone grant, 2021 · $55k
- EFEwen Fort Stettler Fundone grant, 2022 · $50k
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 vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Children's services
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of great lakes community action partnership is to create partnerships and opportunites to help individuals, families and communities thrive.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Community Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Acadia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 51 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 THE CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORKS ART LAB INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds SPAY FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY ADVOCACY PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BURR & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HERRESHOFF MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ATTENTION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds THE HIRAM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND HEARING AND SPEECH CENTER ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES SUPPORTING EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Triple T Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Wuliger Foundation · Rdm Foundation · Lincoln Electric Fdn Pfdn · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman-Horvitz Foundation
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 Britton Fund 4240-00-44 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.
- Lake Champlain Maritime Museum at Basin Harbor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% 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.