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Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 25
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$40k33%
FY202316$43k44%
FY202220$45k50%
FY202110$14k30%
FY202014$32k79%
FY201925$46kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Youth Development$43kEducation$32kFood & Nutrition$27kRecreation & Sports$17kHuman Services$8kArts & Culture$7kPublic Benefit$5kHealth$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Midshore Meals Til Monday Inc$23,50035%
Tilghman Area Youth Association Inc$8,46853%
Queen Annes Advocates for Youth Inc$8,0004n/a
Destination Imagination Inc$5,00010%
St Michaels Community Center Inc$3,50021%
Talbot Mentorsinc$2,50010%
James G Busick Tennus Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Queen Anne's County Free Library$2,00010%
Wye River Upper School Inc$1,72020%
Positive Strides Inc$1,50011%
Talbot Youth Football and Cheer$1,5001n/a
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$1,50010%
Character Counts Mid Shore Inc$1,50011%
Friends of Queen Annes County Libra Ry Inc$1,2001n/a
Talbot Hospice Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Building African American Minds Inc$8901n/a
J Noah Skills Academy$7501n/a
Talbot Figure Skating Club Inc$50013%
St Michaels Fire Department Inc$25010%
Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc$3010%

Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($152k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMidshore Meals Til Monday Inc: $23,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetTilghman Area Youth Association Inc: $8,468 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetDestination Imagination Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Michaels Community Center Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTalbot Mentorsinc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetQueen Anne's County Free Library: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWye River Upper School Inc: $1,720 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPositive Strides Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharacter Counts Mid Shore Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTalbot Hospice Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTalbot Figure Skating Club Inc: $500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSt Michaels Fire Department Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD32.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Dock Street Foundation · Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · The May Foundation of Maryland · Ruth and Robert St John Foundation Inc · The Seip Family Foundation Limited Eevercore Trust CO C/O Ashley Ferriello · Friel Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc

How much does Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc give?
Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $40,369 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 25 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (24%), Education (18%), Food & Nutrition (15%).
Who are Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Midshore Meals Til Monday Inc ($24k), Tilghman Area Youth Association Inc ($8k), Queen Annes Advocates for Youth Inc ($8k).
Does Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc, Dock Street Foundation, Grayce B Kerr Fund Inc.
Where is Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc based?
Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 62 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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