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Bryan Area Foundation Inc

To support charitable organizations in the williams county, ohio area.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$1.4MPhilanthropy$615kArts & Culture$406kAnimals$373kEducation$340kReligion$334kHealth$208kFood & Nutrition$192kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $489,991, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,161,883 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $671,892 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $363k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$13,176
Median grant
2
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$53,171
CITY OF BRYAN PARKS AND RECREATION$44,682
LILY CREEK FARMS$42,500
VILLAGE OF WEST UNITY$31,941
VILLAGE OF EDGERTON$25,000
WILLIAMS COUNTY PARKS$20,564
SAUDER VILLAGE$20,000
ACADEMIC BOOSTER CLUB$19,758
UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY$19,058
WILLIAMS COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL$17,027
WILLIAMS CTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,531
SANCTUARY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY$15,000
WILLIAMS COUNTY YMCA$14,742
FOUR COUNTY CAREER CENTER$13,350
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$13,176
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 (FY17–17, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $10k → 18%SHALOM MINISTIES: $50k → 8%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.
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 35 repeat orgs$922k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
31

Total granted

$3.4M
$846k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+23%

Still filing today

57%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BA
    BRYAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $504k · revenue +944% · 81% of their budget
  • WC
    WILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $352k · revenue +168%
  • WC
    WILLIAMS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATIO
    3× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +244% · 77% of their budget

Funded once

  • WC
    WILLIAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER
    one grant, 2023 · $206k · revenue -81% · 69% of their budget
  • WC
    WILLIAMS COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · $120k
  • BG
    BRYAN GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATIgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $111k · revenue +42%
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
Fredericktown Area Historical Society

Historical society for fredericktown ohio

Arts & Culture
2
Williams Township Vol Fire Dept Volunteer Fire Department

The organization's purpose is to provide volunteer fire fighting services.

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Youth Services of Bryan County Inc

To provide, promote, assist, and facilitate a community-based structured process of counseling, socialization, recreation, and educational assistance to youth and their families who have been identified as in need of assistance in…

Human Services
4
Williamson County Youth Athletic Association

Organization strives to promote youth sports for ages 4 through 17 by combining elements of teamwork, competition, and athletics.

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5
Williamsburg Area Chamber of Commerce

To enhance, promote, and serve the business communities of the city of williamsburg, virginia, james city county, virginia, the bruton district of york county, virginia, and the yorktown, virginia waterfront.

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6
Williamsburg Harmony Hill Assoc

100 per cent volunteer national register in 2008 museum open and on display when events in progress open for the education and historical significance for all citizens

Arts & Culture
7
Bryan County United Way

Provide funds for charities in area and support to local citizens.

Philanthropy
8
Williamsburg Iowa Historical Society
Arts & Culture
9
Williams Syndrome Association Inc

To advance the interests of all individuals with williams syndrome throughout their lifespan by providing programming and resources, supporting research, promoting partnerships and connections, and ensuring that the infrastructure of the…

Health
10
Taylor Area Baseball & Softball

Provide than environment to develop baseball and softball skills in a environment that helps the player grow

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11
Perry County Farm Bureau

To improve the economic well-being of agriculture and enrich the quailty of farm family-life

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12
Ohio County & Independent Agricultural Societies
Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bryan Area Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sara's Garden. 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

38 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. 38 of the 74 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
25/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $351,839 · OtherWILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYBRYAN CITY PARKS & REC DEPT: $237,350 · OtherBRYAN CITY PARKS & REC DEPTFOUR COUNTY JOINT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $140,334 · OtherFOUR COUNTY JOINT VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONWILLIAMS CO PUBLIC LIBRARY: $131,798 · OtherWESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $122,898 · OtherWILLIAMS COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY: $120,000 · OtherBRYAN HIGH SCHOOL: $103,638 · OtherVILLAGE OF EDON: $92,423 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $92,079 · Other+42 more: $1,132,504 · Other+42 moreBRYAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $503,800 · Recreation & SportsBRYAN ATHLETIC BOOSTE…WILLIAMS COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL: $151,959 · Recreation & SportsWILLIAMS COUNTY VETER…BRYAN GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATI: $111,200 · Recreation & SportsBRYAN GIRLS SOFTBALL …BRYAN AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $106,200 · Recreation & SportsBRYAN AREA SOCCER ASS…FRIENDS OF THE MONTPELIER PARK: $37,345 · Recreation & SportsBRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC: $479,380 · PhilanthropyBRYAN AREA FOU…UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY: $136,030 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …WILLIAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER: $205,700 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC: $100,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS AND WELLNESS CENTERS: $36,862 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,394 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,377 · HealthSARA'S GARDEN: $6,850 · HealthSHARE FOUNDATION OF COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF WILLIAMS COUNTY INC: $6,740 · HealthKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $6,263 · HealthLILY CREEK FARMS: $92,500 · EducationDEFIANCE COLLEGE: $45,487 · EducationACADEMIC BOOSTER CLUB OF BRYAN CITY: $33,120 · EducationBRYAN MUSIC BOOSTERS INC: $11,545 · EducationSANDY CAY INC: $71,500 · Youth DevelopmentLIFEWISE INC: $51,324 · Youth Development4-H CAMP PALMER INC: $12,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,524,863Recreation & Sports$910,504Philanthropy$615,410Arts & Culture$205,700Health$183,486Education$182,652Youth Development$134,824

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRYAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC: $503,800 over 3y, 81% of budgetBRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC: $479,380 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetWILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $351,839 over 9y, 14% of budgetWILLIAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER: $205,700 over 1y, 69% of budgetWILLIAMS COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL: $151,959 over 4y, 87% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY: $136,030 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetBRYAN AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATION: $106,200 over 2y, 43% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLILY CREEK FARMS: $92,500 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetWILLIAMS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATIO: $71,521 over 3y, 77% of budgetSANDY CAY INC: $71,500 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSAUDER VILLAGE: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILLIAMS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $58,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetLIFEWISE INC: $51,324 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDEFIANCE COLLEGE: $45,487 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC: $40,204 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWILLIAMS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE MONTPELIER PARK: $37,345 over 2y, 30% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOSPITALS AND WELLNESS CENTERS: $36,862 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH'S FRIENDS INC: $35,638 over 2y, 11% of budgetACADEMIC BOOSTER CLUB OF BRYAN CITY: $33,120 over 2y, 70% of budgetBRYAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $27,708 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetBLACK SWAMP AREA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $26,121 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHANDS HELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $24,250 over 1y, 70% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget4-H CAMP PALMER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBRYAN MUSIC BOOSTERS INC: $11,545 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE ABILITY CENTER OF GREATER TOLEDO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $7,394 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,377 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARA'S GARDEN: $6,850 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHARE FOUNDATION OF COMMUNITY HOSPITALS OF WILLIAMS COUNTY INC: $6,740 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST OHIO: $6,263 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds BRYAN ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRYAN AREA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY THEATER ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WILLIAMS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds BRYAN GIRLS SOFTBALL ASSOCIATI ↗
  • Who funds BRYAN AREA SOCCER ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
  • Who funds LILY CREEK FARMS ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATIO ↗
  • Who funds SANDY CAY INC ↗
  • Who funds SAUDER VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC ↗
  • Who funds BRYAN BASEBALL CLUB DBA BRYAN BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds DEFIANCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Williams County Family YMCA of WILLIAMS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAMS COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MONTPELIER PARK ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPITALS AND WELLNESS CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds SARAH'S FRIENDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ACADEMIC BOOSTER CLUB OF BRYAN CITY ↗
  • Who funds BRYAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗

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.

United Way of William…Premier Bank Foundati…Toledo Community Foun…Killgallon FoundationDefiance Area Foundat…Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Williams CountyOH20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Williams County · Premier Bank Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · Killgallon Foundation · Defiance Area Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Bryan Area Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bryan Area Foundation Inc 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 74 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 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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