· Private foundation
Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID SHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY | $11,000 |
| DENTON LITTLE LEAGUE | $6,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| CAMBRIGE SOUTH DORCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL | $3,198 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| QUEEN ANNES ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH INC | $2,500 |
| TALBOT YOUTH FOORTBALL CHEER | $2,500 |
| ST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| HURLOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST MICHAELS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| J NOAH SKILLS ACADEMY | $750 |
| EASTON HIGH SCHOOL | $710 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC2× · 2020–2023 · $19k · revenue +109%
- IGIndividual grant recipient4× · 2019–2023 · $16k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT4× · 2019–2023 · $14k
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF EASTONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CECAMBRIDGE EMPOWERMENT CENTERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- DHDORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $4k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to provide educational opportunities to the citizens of our county so they may learn from the past and use that knowledge to build a future which preserves talbot county as one of the best places to live.
Promote amateur youth ice hockey on the eastern shore of maryland.
Each year the board of directors selects qualifying organizations as beneficiaries subject to the approval of the members of the corporation based upon the perceived needs of the Bay Hundred Community
Provide children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with community and employment services.
To stimulate the interests and coordinate the participation of the citizens of Talbot County on behalf of worthy educational, recreational, health, character building and human services organizations. To solicit and receive contributions…
Providing direct residential care for disabled children.
Community development training advocacy
The classic motor museum's mission is to sponsor, support and offer educational programs dedicated to the preservation and presentation of the motor vehicle history for its members and the general public.
Operation of a food bank
To provide young hockey players, boys and girls, the opportunity to develop the talents to help the dedicated athlete move to the higher levels of hockey competition, whether that interest is junior hockey, prep school hockey, olympic…
To support, enhance and improve the public and private physical, cultural, educational, residential, retail and other business environments of that part of the city of baltimore generally known as the historic charles street area.
Increase awareness and value of the arts to the local community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Character Counts Mid Shore Inc and the most unlike its peers is James G Busick Tennus Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 57 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNES ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
- Who funds JAMES G BUSICK TENNUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARACTER COUNTS MID SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE STRIDES INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
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
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 Bryan Brothers Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Phillips Wharf Environmental Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- St Michaels Community Center Inc — 20% of income from government
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
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.
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