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Brothers Trust USA
The Brothers Trust is organized and operated exclusively for charitable educational or scientific purposes under Sectin 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code the Code including the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under the Code.
$377k
Granted FY2025
8
Grants
7
Communities
$43k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2024–2025.
Human Services$140kHealth$34kEducation$25kReligion$24kInternational$21kOther$63k
02FY2025 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $193k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
- The Empowerment Plan$42,500
- St Francis Center$30,000
- Kares 4 Kids$30,000
- The Campus School at Boston College$25,000
- Move a Mountain Mission dba Brother Andre s Cafe$24,000
- Warm Heart$21,300
- ESP Inc dba Java Joy$20,000
- EB Research Partnership$4,228
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 (FY24–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$207k · 4 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +213% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
4
Total granted
$207k
$100k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+213%
+47%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionInternationalOther
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
- TEThe Empowerment Plan2× · 2024–2025 · $73k · revenue +120%
- KKares4Kids2× · 2024–2025 · $68k · revenue +213%
EB Research Partnership2× · 2024–2025 · $34k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SFSt Francis Centergraduatedone grant, 2025 · $30k · revenue +348%
The Campus School at Boston Collegegraduatedone grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue +41%- MAMove a Mountain Mission dba Brother Andre s Cafegraduatedone grant, 2025 · $24k · revenue +47%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College
Bates College is a private, highly selective, residential college devoted to undergraduate study in the traditional disciplines of the liberal arts and sciences as well as in emerging interdisciplinary programs.
Education
2
Amherst College Trustees
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University
Princeton university is a private not-for-profit, nonsectarian institution of higher learning and a world-renowned research institution.
Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Education
5
The Trustees of the Smith College
*mission* smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, thereby developing engaged global…
Education
6
Trustees of Trinity College the
Trinity college's mission is to provide excellence in liberal arts education with emphasis on maintaining an outstanding faculty, rigorous curriculum, talented and motivated student body and an attractive, supportive and secure campus…
Education
7
Especially the Family
The mission of Especially The Family is to identify urgent needs in the developing world to communicate those needs to anonymous donors who are willing and able to meet them and then to facilitate transactions that meet these needs in a…
International
8
The Children's Mission
Supporting orphans and vulnerable children in malawi, africa
International
9
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College
The mission of mount holyoke college is to provide an intellectually adventurous education in the liberal arts and sciences through academic programs recognized internationally for their excellence and range; to draw students from all…
Education
10
Catholic Schools Foundation Inc
The catholic schools foundation changes lives by providing families with demonstrated financial need an opportunity to give thier sons and daughters a quality education, focused on christian values and character formation at catholic…
Education
11
Deshpande Foundation Inc
The Deshpande Foundation, Inc. encourages the use of entrepreneurship and innovation as catalysts for societal change and improved quality of life.
Philanthropy
12
Berkeley College Foundation
The mission of the berkeley college foundation (bcf) is to provide support and resources to students pursuing quality experiences in higher education.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Empowerment Plan and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Boston College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$140,000Other$62,500Health$34,228Education$25,000Religion$24,000International$21,300
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.
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.
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation Brothers Trust USA 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Kares4Kids.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 204190676 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Kares4Kids, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Brothers Trust USA?
Find your warmest path to Brothers Trust USA through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines