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Bryant Foundation Inc

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.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Religion$112kHuman Services$37kEducation$12kYouth Development$11kPhilanthropy$9kArts & Culture$8kHousing & Shelter$4kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$614k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLYER$12,364
LACY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$5,500
METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
BROOKGREEN GARDENS$2,500
WHIRLIGIG$2,500
KK FUND$2,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT$1,300
Individual grant recipient$1,100
Individual grant recipient$1,000
MAKE A WISH$1,000
BOULWARE MISSION$1,000
CAROLINA BALLET$1,000
GLOBAL MINISTRIES$1,000
PITINO SHELTER$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%METHODIST HOME FOR CHILDREN: $4k → 8%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $50 → 15%THE BLUEGRASS CARE NAVIGATORS: $50 → 15%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $50 → 15%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $50 → 15%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $50 → 15%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES: $50 → 15%BOULWARE MISSION: $1k → 13%BOULWARE MISSION: $500 → 13%AID THE HOMELESS: $100 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$166k · 22 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
37

Total granted

$166k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+15%

Still filing today

41%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BG
    BROOKGREEN GARDENS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +16%
  • TR
    THE ROBERT AUSTIN MEYTHALER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2k · revenue +110%
  • IS
    ISSAC STERETT ADVENTURE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • LF
    LACY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • MA
    MARYLIN AND WILLIAM YOUNG FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -5%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Brevard College Corporation

Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.

Education
2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
Ballet Theatre Foundation Inc

To create, to present, to preserve, and to extend the great repertoire of classical dancing through exciting performances and educational programming of the highest quality, presented to the widest possible audience. american ballet…

Arts & Culture
6
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
7
Carolina Art Association Dba Gibbes Museum of Art

The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…

Arts & Culture
8
Boys and Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee

Boys & girls clubs of middle tennessee's ("bgcmt") mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. in essence, we seek to save and…

Youth Development
9
Charlotte Mecklenburg Afro-American Cultural and Service Center Inc

The harvey b. gantt center for african-american arts and culture (formerly the charlotte-mecklenburg afro-american cultural and service center) exists to present, preserve and promote african american art, culture and history for the…

Arts & Culture
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
12
Wellesley College

To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hackett Family Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Child and Family ServicesCommunity Arts OrganizationsProfessional Ballet Compani…Cancer Support OrganizationsFood Pantries & AssistanceAnimal Rescue and AdoptionDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Hospice Care ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Homeless Services & ShelterYouth Development CentersRotary Club Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr14%17%35–55yr18%46%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr18%46%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
12%
2,432/20,287

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.

04the grantee network

27 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
14/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $107,945 · OtherFIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCHHILLYER — $12,364 · OtherHILLYERFAMILY Y — $10,700 · OtherFAMILY YIndividual grant recipient — $7,500 · OtherLACY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $6,750 · Other+49 more — $39,837 · Other+49 moreThe Methodist Home for Children Inc — $4,000 · Human ServicesBOULWARE MISSION INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesISSAC STERETT ADVENTURE FOUNDATION — $1,350 · Human ServicesIMAGINATION LIBRARY OF DAVIESS COUNTY INC — $1,000 · Human Services+3 more — $400 · Human ServicesBROOKGREEN GARDENS — $4,500 · EnvironmentIMPACT 100 - OWENSBORO INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyHACKETT FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $500 · PhilanthropyCAROLINA BALLET INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $550 · Arts & CultureRIVERPARK CENTER INC — $500 · Arts & CultureBINGHAMTON DOWNTOWN SINGERS INC — $250 · Arts & CultureTHE ROBERT AUSTIN MEYTHALER FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 · EducationGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY — $550 · Education+1 more — $50 · EducationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $100 · Health
Other$185,096Human Services$8,250Environment$4,500Philanthropy$4,000Arts & Culture$3,300Education$3,000Health$1,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Methodist Home for Children Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT 100 - OWENSBORO INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROBERT AUSTIN MEYTHALER FOUNDATION INC — $2,400 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetBOULWARE MISSION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISSAC STERETT ADVENTURE FOUNDATION — $1,350 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA BALLET INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHACKETT FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOWENSBORO ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $650 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY — $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERPARK CENTER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIFF HAGAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBINGHAMTON DOWNTOWN SINGERS INC — $250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC — $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAID THE HOMELESS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BROOKGREEN GARDENS
  • Who funds The Methodist Home for Children Inc
  • Who funds IMPACT 100 - OWENSBORO INC
  • Who funds THE ROBERT AUSTIN MEYTHALER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BOULWARE MISSION INC
  • Who funds ISSAC STERETT ADVENTURE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds LINCOLN HERITAGE COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF DAVIESS COUNTY INC
  • Who funds CAROLINA BALLET INC
  • Who funds ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC
  • Who funds HACKETT FAMILY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds OWENSBORO ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OWENSBORO-DAV COUNTY
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION

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.

The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Lester E Yeager Charitable Trust B · Marilyn & William Young Charitable Foundation Inc C/O Sara Hemingway Ex Di · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · B J Killian Foundation · United Way of the Ohio Valley Inc · Lawrence & Augusta Hager Educational Foundation Inc · Public Life Foundation of Owensboro · Owensboro Health 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 Bryant 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bryant Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Bryant 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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