· Private foundation
Bryans 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MADISON MORGAN BOYS & GIRLS CL | $26,600 |
| AWARE WILDLIFE CENTER | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GA | $24,000 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $8,500 |
| GLOBAL VILLIAGE PROJECT | $8,048 |
| AVONDALE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $6,574 |
| DECATUR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY SOUTHEAST | $5,918 |
| JASPER COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING | $5,000 |
| DOVESTONE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,300 |
| HUTCHINSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $3,990 |
| DR RW TAYLOR SCHOLARSHIP | $2,500 |
| MADISON MORGAN CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
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, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +62% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 56 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- TGTHE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +438%
- CACompanion Animal Rescue Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $92k · revenue +14% · 48% of their budget
- CTCAMP TWIN LAKES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
- MPMIDWEST PROVINCEone grant, 2024 · $24k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Georgia Animal Projects mission is to reduce animal suffering and shelter by euthanasia by confronting companion-animal overpopulation through effective education programs and by supporting high quality, low-cost spay and neuter programs…
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
To protect georgia through ecological and economic solutions for stewardship, conservation, and sustainable use of the land and its resources.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The mission of friends is to partner with, promote and preserve georgia state parks & historic sites. statewide, friends works to raise awareness of the economic and intrinsic values of georgia's greatest treasures. we work with state and…
The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…
Mosaic Georgia's mission is to take action and guide change for the safety, health, and justice of children and adults impacted by sexual violence. It provides a coordinated, trauma-informed response, including crisis services, medical…
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
The organization was formed to construct, own, and operate a world-class aquarium facility for the benefit of the general public. the mission of georgia aquarium is to be a non-profit committed to inspiring awareness and preservation of…
To end senseless euthanasia and stop pet over-population in Georgia through targed spay/neuter programming.
Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Dr R W Taylor Scholarship. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 172 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 GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Companion Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP TWIN LAKES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW AMERICAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETYOF MORGAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Philanthropy Southeast Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTH GEORGIA ↗
- Who funds Madison-Morgan Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds Comunidad Connect ↗
- Who funds BRAG DREAM TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds BLESS BACK WORLDWIDE INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan County Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MORGAN MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DR R W TAYLOR SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds AMERICUS-SUMTER FULLER CENTER FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FRAGILE KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Abreu M & F Ctr Tr Ua · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc
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 Bryans 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.