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Bryant Foundation at a glance

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Bryant Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$15kInternational$6kFood & Nutrition$4kEnvironment$4kHealth$2kArts & Culture$2kHousing & Shelter$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$360
Median grant
7
States reached
$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$6,425
Happy Endings Animal Rescue$1,600
Utah Food Bank$1,200
Individual grant recipient$800
Society for Science$660
Huntsman Cancer Foundation$480
Wilderness Society$360
Operation Kindheart$350
Center For Biological Diversity$285
orbis$134
Wyoming Coalition$107
Mesa Foundation$100
Nevada Public Radio$77
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Grand Canyon Conservancy: $2k → 16%OXFAM AMERICA: $1k → 16%Arbor Day Foundation: $490 → 13%Yosemite Conservancy: $700 → 10%Doctors Without Borders: $2k → 17%Mercy Ships: $403 → 12%Feed the Children: $163 → 16%Society for Science: $660 → 14%Franciscan Missions: $650 → 10%Save the Children: $602 → 9%Utah Food Bank: $1k → 8%Operation Kindheart: $350 → 9%Huntsman Cancer Foundation: $480 → 14%Habitat for Humanity: $1k → 22%Alaska Public Radio: $100 → 10%Happy Endings Animal Rescue: $2k → 8%Food Bank of the Rockies: $2k → 11%Wyoming Public Media: $780 → 12%Wyoming Coalition: $107 → 17%Nevada Public Radio: $284 → 13%Grand Canyon Conservancy: $100 → 16%OXFAM AMERICA: $154 → 16%Teresa Shane: $800 → 13%Save The Redwoods League: $355 → 10%International Rescue Committee: $250 → 17%Society for Science: $277 → 14%Save the Children: $153 → 9%Utah Food Bank: $1k → 8%Tosha Hoyt: $250 → 9%Huntsman Cancer Foundation: $250 → 14%Habitat for Humanity: $100 → 22%Happy Endings Animal Rescue: $600 → 8%Wyoming Public Media: $60 → 12%Nevada Public Radio: $208 → 13%Save The Redwoods League: $100 → 10%orbis: $134 → 17%Society for Science: $41 → 14%Escalante Grand Staircase Friends: $50 → 9%Huntsman Cancer Foundation: $129 → 14%Happy Endings Animal Rescue: $296 → 8%Nevada Public Radio: $77 → 13%Wilderness Society: $360 → 14%Mesa Foundation: $100 → 8%UC Berkeley Foundation: $150 → 8%UC Berkeley Foundation: $100 → 8%Patti Baxley: $6k → 8%Patti Baxley: $4k → 8%Patti Baxley: $1k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
WI
NY
MA
NV
WY
CT
CA
UT
NE
MD
AZ
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26k · 13 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$26k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+13%

Still filing today

69%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
InternationalEnvironmentAnimalsFood & NutritionScience & TechHealthOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FOOD BANK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +14%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $978 · revenue +250%

Funded once

  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +17%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $900
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
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
4
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
5
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
8
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
9
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Children Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alaska Songbird Institute. 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

21 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. 21 of the 36 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $11,869 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUTAH FOOD BANK: $2,400 · OtherUTAH FOOD BANKHabitat for Humanity: $1,400 · OtherHabitat for HumanityIndividual grant recipient: $900 · OtherWyoming Public Media: $840 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $800 · Other+12 more: $4,628 · Other+12 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,700 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS F…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,209 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA I…Save The Children Federation Inc: $755 · InternationalSave The Childr…Mercy Ships International: $403 · InternationalMercy Ships Int…WORLD VISION INC: $400 · InternationalWORLD VISION IN…International Rescue Committee INC: $250 · International+2 more: $297 · International+2 moreHAPPY ENDINGS ANIMAL RESCUE: $2,496 · AnimalsHAPPY END…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $285 · AnimalsCENTER FO…ALASKA SONGBIRD INSTITUTE: $250 · AnimalsALASKA SO…GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,720 · EnvironmentGRAND CAN…NATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $490 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $455 · EnvironmentSAVE THE …THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $360 · EnvironmentTHE WILDE…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,800 · Food & NutritionSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $978 · Science & TechHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $859 · Health
Other$22,837International$5,014Animals$3,031Environment$3,025Food & Nutrition$1,800Science & Tech$978Health$859

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 budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY: $1,720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,209 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC: $978 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $859 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $755 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA PUBLIC RADIO: $569 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $455 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $403 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA SONGBIRD INSTITUTE: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $163 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $134 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Bryant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bryant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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