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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
CAMBRIDGE EMPOWERMENT CENTER$5,000
DESTINATION IMAGINATION$5,000
MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY$5,000
CAMBRIGE SOUTH DORCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL$4,400
CRITCHLOW ADKINS CHILDRENS CENTERS$3,500
TALBOT YOUTH FOORTBALL CHEER$2,500
DENTON LITTLE LEAGUE$2,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$1,500
ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER$1,500
ST MICHAELS HIGH SCHOOL$1,499
Individual grant recipient$1,000
TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION$1,000
EASTON HIGH SCHOOL$750
WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL$720
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TALBOT HOSPICE: $1k → 10%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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137k · 17 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
39

Total granted

$137k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+21%

Still filing today

29%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman 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

  • MM
    MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +109%
  • TA
    TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +41%
  • SM
    ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +243%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF EASTON
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MM
    MIDSHORE MEALS TILL MONDAY
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • DH
    DORCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
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
Talbot Historical Society Inc

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.

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2
Team Maryland Ice Hockey Organization Inc

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…

Youth Development
3
Chesapeake Academy Inc

To inspire each student to approach learning with curiosity and creativity, pursue excellence, and act with integrity-so each can make our community and world a better place.

Education
4
Maryland C0MMUNITY Connection

Provide children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with community and employment services.

Human Services
5
Eastern Shore Hockey Association Incorporated

Promote amateur youth ice hockey on the eastern shore of maryland.

Recreation & Sports
6
United Fund of Talbot County Inc

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…

—
7
Delmarva Teen Challenge Inc

Residential faith based program that helps adult men and women with life controlling problems experience freedom from addiction and transition back into society

Human Services
8
Bridges Baltimore Inc

Bridges baltimore, inc. is committed to the long-term success of baltimore city youth and to providing life changing opportunities for independent school students.

Education
9
Seaside Christian Academy Inc

Christian school

Education
10
St Michael's Episcopal School Inc

St. michael's episcopal school nurtures the spirit, ignites the mind, and celebrates childhood in a community of love, affirmation, and belonging that fosters educational excellence.

Education
11
Charles Street Development Corp

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.

Community Improvement
12
The Peter B Teeley Childrens Charities Foundation Inc

CCF Supports at-risk youth in Washington DC Metro Region through fundraising efforts and direct programming: CCF-Coats for Kids Program, CCF Cares, Summer Camp Grants and Grants to non-profit organizations serving at-risk youth.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Character Counts Mid Shore Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 62 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $15,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: $13,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENTIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCAMBRIDGE EMPOWERMENT CENTER: $10,000 · OtherCAMBRIDGE EMPOWERMENT CENTERDENTON LITTLE LEAGUE: $8,500 · OtherCAMBRIGE SOUTH DORCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL: $7,598 · OtherEASTON HIGH SCHOOL: $6,835 · Other+43 more: $89,333 · Other+43 moreMIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC: $23,500 · Food & NutritionMIDSHORE MEA…TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC: $8,468 · Youth DevelopmentTILGHMAN A…QUEEN ANNES ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH INC: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentQUEEN ANNE…TALBOT MENTORSINC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTALBOT MEN…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP…QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY: $2,000 · EducationWYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC: $1,720 · EducationBUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC: $890 · EducationST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,500 · Recreation & SportsTALBOT FIGURE SKATING CLUB INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsJAMES G BUSICK TENNUS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$165,216Food & Nutrition$23,500Youth Development$20,468Education$4,610Recreation & Sports$4,000Community Improvement$2,500Philanthropy$1,500

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 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 budgetCHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 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
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 MIDSHORE MEALS TIL MONDAY INC ↗
  • Who funds TILGHMAN AREA YOUTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN ANNES ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds DESTINATION IMAGINATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MICHAELS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TALBOT MENTORSINC ↗
  • Who funds JAMES G BUSICK TENNUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds WYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds POSITIVE STRIDES INC ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Brothers Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bryan Brothers 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 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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