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Bryan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIELDS OF BOYNE CITY | $3,500 |
| YOUNG LIFE OF BOYNE CITY | $3,000 |
| NAZARETH ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| THE HEALING CENTER | $2,250 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,000 |
| OASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $1,500 |
| ST ROBERTS OF NEWMINISTER | $500 |
| PETOSKEYHARBOR SPRINGS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CASA OF KENT COUNTY | $500 |
| OLIVIA'S GIFT | $500 |
| FAMILY FUTURES | $250 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GRAND RAPIDS | $250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KENT COUNTY | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- THThe Healing Center7× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +81%
- OFOASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED NFP3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +184%
- TMTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT5× · 2017–2021 · $2k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- TWTHE WATERFRONT FIELD OF DREAMSone grant, 2022 · $17k
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR MENTORS FOR TEEN MOTHone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SGSt Georges Center Inc dba St George Tableone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -5%
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.
Working in the spirit of Gods universal love, our mission is to nurture, stabilize and strengthen the diverse families of the Upper Peninsula Community by providing mental health and addiction counseling services, child welfare services,…
Leading the way in promoting healthy family living by reaching out to underserved populations and those who are in our community.
Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County D/B/A Catholic Charities Washtenaw County provides diverse, holistic social services including adoption and pregnancy counseling, food and basic needs assistance, domestic and child abuse…
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Inspired by Christian faith, Bishop Sullivan Center shows God's love to people in financial hardship by providing food, help in finding jobs, and other aid. Beyond material assistance, Bishop Sulivan Center strives to build relationships…
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
The michigan christian home dba beacon hill at eastgate, a not-for-profit corporation, provides housing and health services in a christian environment for older adults, thus enabling them to meet their ongoing physical, social and…
Michigan Family Resources mission is to deliver holistic family-centered services to children that promote their well-being and development.
to provide food and shelter for the homeless of Detroit
The mission of the Christian family counseling center is to restore, educate, and strengthen people through professional mental health services that integrate a gracious Christian perspective wtih psychological principles, striving to help…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Degage Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Oasis for the Visually Impaired Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 52 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 The Healing Center ↗
- Who funds OASIS FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED NFP ↗
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CENTERS OF EMMET COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Kent County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE POWER OF EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Georges Center Inc dba St George Table ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEIGHBORS FOOD PANTRY OF BOYNE ↗
- Who funds DEGAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds OLIVIA'S GIFT 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: Frey Foundation · Spartannash Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Triford Foundation · Charlevoix County Community Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · WK Kellogg Foundation
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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated — 0% 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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