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Brush Foundation Ta

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$367k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Health$891kCivil Rights$845kPublic Benefit$233kEducation$85kCommunity Improvement$53kHuman Services$43kEnvironment$25kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$18,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRETERM CLEVELAND INC$65,000
OHIO WOMENS ALLIANCE$32,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO$30,000
ABORTION FORWARD ALLIANCE$30,000
ABORTION FUND OF OHIO$25,000
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$25,000
JUST CHOICE$23,000
OHIO VOICE$18,000
OHIO PROGRESSIVE ASIAN WOMENS LEADERSHIP$16,500
CLEVELAND CLINIC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD RESEARCH CENTER-BLOOM$10,000
UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY$10,000
COLLECTIVE POWER FOR REPRODUCTIVE$10,000
FAITH CHOICE OHIO$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%URGE: $40k → 14%URGE: $25k → 14%URGE: $20k → 14%FAITH CHOICE OHIO: $20k → 15%FAITH CHOICE OHIO: $15k → 15%OHIO RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIV: $15k → 15%OHIO RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR: $10k → 15%FAITH CHOICE OHIO: $10k → 15%JUST CHOICE: $23k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 17 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$2.0M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther

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

  • AF
    Abortion Fund of Ohio
    7× · 2019–2025 · $265k · revenue +106%
  • NV
    NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $235k · revenue +106%
  • OV
    OHIO VOICE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $233k · revenue +201%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +45%
  • PO
    PRO-CHOICE OHIO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • RO
    Restoring Our Own Through Transformation
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +23%

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
Abortion Forward

Abortion forward is committed to developing and sustaining a constituency that uses the political process to guarantee every ohioan the right to make personal decisions regarding a full range of reproductive choices, including legal…

2
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom

Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, Inc. is a coalition of statewide reproductive heal, rights, and justice organizations working to secure abortion access and protect reproductive freedom in Ohio.

3
Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights

Ballot issue political action committee in the State of Ohio to advocate for the passage of a constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights.

4
American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio Inc

Advocate for and effect systemic change to ensure justice and equity for all ohioans.

5
The Women's Clinic of Columbus

Women's health clinic focusing on helping at-risk parents deal with issues related to prenancy and parenting.

Health
6
Protect Women Ohio Action Inc

Protect Women Ohio Action is a Section 501(c)(4) social welfare organization and registered ballot committee in the State of Ohio engaged in advocacy activities related to the "Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and…

7
Conservative Agenda for America

Conservative Agenda for America stands for the sanctity of life and the protection of women by educating citizens about the dangers of abortion.

8
Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom Pac

Ballot issue political action committee advocating for the passage of a constitutional amendment in the State of Ohio to protect reproductive freedom.

9
Pro-Choice Washington

To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building

10
Cleveland Pregnancy Center

Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.

Health
11
Cobalt Advocates

Cobalt advocates actualizes policies, structures and attitudes that secure unassailable reproductive autonomy and abortion access utilizing the political process and civic engagement.

12
Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Ohio

To educate, encourage and protect informed individual choice regarding reproductive health care and advocate public policies which guarantee the right to such care.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Urge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%9%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr16%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr15%14%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
12%
6,198/52,493

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.

04the grantee network

24 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
17/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Abortion Fund of Ohio — $265,000 · HealthAbortion Fund of OhioPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $113,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATE…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION — $113,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHW…PRETERM CLEVELAND INC — $65,000 · HealthPRETERM CLEVELAND INCRestoring Our Own Through Transformation — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC — $235,000 · Civil RightsNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INCURGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY — $175,000 · Civil RightsURGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE…ABORTION FORWARD ALLIANCE — $130,000 · Civil RightsABORTION FORWARD ALLIANCE+4 more — $20,805 · Civil RightsPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF — $145,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OFPRETERM — $130,250 · OtherPRETERMCLEVELAND CLINIC — $40,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINICPRO-CHOICE OHIO FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherPRO-CHOICE OHIO FOUND…COLLECTIVE POWER FOR REPRODUCTIVE — $23,500 · OtherROOTT — $20,100 · OtherOHIO PROGRESSIVE ASIAN WOMENS LEADERSHIP — $16,500 · OtherTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $25,000 · OtherTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTA…+3 more — $15,538 · OtherOHIO VOICE — $232,540 · Public BenefitOHIO VOICE+1 more — $6,750 · Public BenefitOhio Womens Alliance — $149,000 · Community ImprovementOhio Wome…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $37,500 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SEC…THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CENTE…URGE — $85,000 · Human ServicesFaith Choice Ohio — $70,000 · Human ServicesCHOICE NETWORK INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $85,375 · Education
Health$586,000Civil Rights$560,805Other$440,888Public Benefit$239,290Community Improvement$201,500Human Services$178,000Education$85,375

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAbortion Fund of Ohio — $265,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC — $235,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetOHIO VOICE — $232,540 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetURGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY — $175,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetOhio Womens Alliance — $149,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetABORTION FORWARD ALLIANCE — $130,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER OHIO — $113,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST OHIO REGION — $113,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY — $85,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURGE — $85,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetFaith Choice Ohio — $70,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetPRETERM CLEVELAND INC — $65,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OHIO ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRestoring Our Own Through Transformation — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF OHIO FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $6,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY OHIO — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREGNANCY JUSTICE INC — $705 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Susan Thompson Buffett FoundationNE32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · New Venture Fund · Perkins Maurice No 1 Ta · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc · Groundswell Fund · Columbus Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Ohio Voice

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 Brush Foundation Ta 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Brush Foundation Ta?

Find your warmest path to Brush Foundation Ta 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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