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Bryan and Barbara Fields Family Foundation at a glance

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Bryan and Barbara Fields Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$336k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$657kCrime & Legal$123kPublic Benefit$114kEducation$80kInternational$77kArts & Culture$61kFood & Nutrition$60kPhilanthropy$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$501k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$200,000
THE TAIMAKA PROJECT$75,000
REASON FOUNDATION$15,000
MICHAEL J FOX FDN$10,000
CITY OF REFUGE INC$10,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$10,000
GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$4,000
ANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION$3,500
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART$3,500
ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL$3,000
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$1,000
STARR COMMONWEALTH$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 (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $500 → 14%POWER TO DECIDE: $36k → 14%STARR COMMONWEALTH: $500 → 14%STAR COMMONWEALTH: $200 → 14%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

IL
MI
NY
PA
CA
VA
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$932k · 15 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$932k
$221k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+37%

Still filing today

87%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $543k · revenue +109%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +57%
  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $105k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • GM
    GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $47k · revenue -16%
  • Feeding America
    one grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +17%
  • PT
    POWER TO DECIDE
    one grant, 2022 · $36k · revenue +6%
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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
8
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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9
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
10
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
11
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
12
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ansley Park Beautification Foundation. 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

32 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. 32 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
28/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $542,500 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $60,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $25,000 · Health+3 more: $4,580 · HealthTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationTHE REASON FO…GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,200 · EducationGEORGE MASON …+2 more: $6,230 · EducationINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $122,700 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE …THE TAIMAKA PROJECT: $75,000 · International+2 more: $2,000 · InternationalJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,100 · PhilanthropyFeeding America: $44,400 · Food & NutritionATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $15,500 · Food & NutritionROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $46,225 · Arts & CultureActors Express Inc: $3,300 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $878 · Arts & CultureEMORY UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherEMORY UNIV…ANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $8,500 · OtherANSLEY PAR…PUBLIC BROADCASTING ATLANTA: $7,200 · OtherPUBLIC BRO…POWER TO DECIDE: $36,100 · OtherPOWER TO D…CITY OF REFUGE: $10,000 · OtherCITY OF RE…GEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · OtherGEORGIA PU…Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $8,000 · OtherBoy Scouts…THE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $5,000 · Other+8 more: $9,300 · Other+8 more
Health$632,080Education$158,430Civil Rights$122,700International$77,000Philanthropy$75,100Food & Nutrition$59,900Arts & Culture$50,403Other$118,100

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 budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $542,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $122,700 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $47,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $46,225 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $44,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER TO DECIDE: $36,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $25,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetANSLEY PARK BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GATEWAY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OVARIAN CANCER INSTITUTE INC: $3,330 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ALFRED AND ADELE DAVIS ACADEMY INC: $2,230 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARR COMMONWEALTH: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDURING HEARTS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillels of Georgia Inc: $950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $735 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION: $143 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Virginia & Charle…Ron and Lisa Brill Ch…THDF II Inc DBA The H…The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Natl Christian Charit…
The Virginia & Charles Brewer Family FoundationGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Virginia & Charles Brewer Family Foundation · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Bryan and Barbara Fields Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bryan and Barbara Fields Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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