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Brt Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Brt Charitable Foundation

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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Environment$1.4MAnimals$710kPhilanthropy$558kEducation$240kHousing & Shelter$205kFood & Nutrition$75kHuman Services$60kHealth$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $895k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $890k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$30,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$450,000
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC$300,000
DIAN FOSSEY GORILLA FUND$200,000
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA$200,000
DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA$150,000
KAKO EARTH$130,000
REWILD$60,000
TIDES FOUNDATION DAF$50,000
SINKYONE SANCTUARY$50,000
PLANET REIMAGINED$50,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$30,000
LONG LIVE THE KINGS$30,000
SEALEGACY FOUNDATION INC$30,000
LHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION$30,000
SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB$30,000
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 (FY22–24, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BEAUTY 2 THE STREETZ: $5k → 14%NEW STORY INC: $75k → 13%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $8k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $8k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $25k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $25k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $10k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
CA
VA
AZ
DC
GA
TX
FL
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 14% of Brt Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brt Charitable Foundationlessmore 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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$425k · 6 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$425k
$270k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
AnimalsEnvironmentScience & TechHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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

  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue +25%
  • NB
    NORTH BEACH CITIZENS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +16%
  • FO
    Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • MA
    Make A Difference Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -96%
  • NS
    NEW STORY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +72%
  • TB
    TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +2%
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
3
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
4
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Endangered Species International

Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.

Animals
7
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
8
Reel Earth Films

Reel Earth Films promotes wildlife conservation by creating films that nurture the human connection to nature, spread awareness about life-threatening challenges facing species worldwide, and advance environmental activism and research.

Arts & Culture
9
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
10
Wildlife Conservation Global Inc

Wildlife conservation global, inc. operates the okapi conservation project (ocp) which works in the democratic republic of the congo with the institute in congo for the conservation of nature (iccn) and local communities throughout the…

Animals
11
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
12
Marine Megafauna Foundation

Save threatened marine life using pioneering research, education, and sustainable conservation solutions

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlife Conservation Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Make a Difference 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

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 52 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
19/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $450,000 · AnimalsGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $200,000 · AnimalsBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USATHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $150,000 · AnimalsTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA IN…Sinkyone Sanctuary: $75,000 · AnimalsSinkyone SanctuaryREWILD: $60,000 · Animals+10 more: $285,000 · Animals+10 moreDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $200,000 · OtherDian Fossey Gorilla Fund Inte…KAKO EARTH: $130,000 · OtherKAKO EARTHTIDES FOUNDATION DAF: $50,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATION DAFOCEAN FUTURES SOCIETY: $30,000 · OtherThe Gorilla Foundation: $30,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · OtherSeaLegacy Foundation Inc: $30,000 · OtherLemur Conservation Foundation Inc: $30,000 · OtherCAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $30,000 · OtherAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $30,000 · OtherFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $50,000 · OtherFoodbank of Santa Barbara Cou…EARTH LAW CENTER: $30,000 · OtherPREDATORS OF THE HEART DBA BECAUSE WE MATTER EXOTIC ANIMAL RES: $30,000 · OtherLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Other+5 more: $95,000 · Other+5 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CH…PLANET REIMAGINED INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FORESTRY: $30,000 · EnvironmentSTAND: $30,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentRE SOURCES: $30,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama Alliance: $30,000 · EnvironmentROOM TO READ: $200,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS INC: $20,000 · EducationNEW STORY INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $60,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesMake A Difference Inc: $125,000 · Housing & Shelter
Animals$1,220,000Other$855,000Philanthropy$500,000Environment$260,000Education$220,000Human Services$155,000Housing & Shelter$125,000

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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $200,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetROOM TO READ: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMake A Difference Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSinkyone Sanctuary: $75,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $60,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetREWILD: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANET REIMAGINED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCENTER FOR RESPONSIBLE FORESTRY: $30,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetEARTH LAW CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLemur Conservation Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTAND: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPTAIN PAUL WATSON FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPREDATORS OF THE HEART DBA BECAUSE WE MATTER EXOTIC ANIMAL RES: $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSAVE OUR WILD SALMON: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLHAQ'TEMISH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRE SOURCES: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Gorilla Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOCEANA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeaLegacy Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWHATCOM HUMANE SOCIETY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPACIFIC WILD ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDoctors Without Walls Santa Barbara Street Medicine: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR IMPACT COMMUNICATIONS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFLATBUSH CATS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE USA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBeauty 2 The Streetz: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The GreerSolien FundRiverstyx FoundationSeattle FoundationPatagoniaorgImpactassetsincMarin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Mightycause Charitabl…California Community …Tides FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The GreerSolien FundDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The GreerSolien Fund · Riverstyx Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Impactassetsinc · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Brt Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brt Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Brt Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brt Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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