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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 FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,364
Organizations funded a year
22 to 27
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$614k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Bryant Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving30$46k50%
FY202322$37k36%
FY202222$35k45%
FY202126$48k54%
FY202027$43kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
RI
KY
AZ
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($177k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bryant Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCarolina Ballet Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Center of the Bluegrass Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetHackett Family Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOwensboro Rotary Club Foundation Inc: $650 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCenter for Action and Contemplation: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Owensboro-Dav County: $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiverpark Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCliff Hagan Boys & Girls Club Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Women and Families Inc: $250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBinghamton Downtown Singers Inc: $250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAid the Homeless Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys & Girls Clubs Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLexington Humane Society: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of the Bluegrass Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown College: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

About Bryant Foundation Inc

How much does Bryant Foundation Inc give?
Bryant Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $45,974 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Bryant Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (54%), Human Services (18%), Education (6%).
Who are Bryant Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Brookgreen Gardens ($5k), The@Ford Center ($4k), The Methodist Home for Children Inc ($4k).
Does Bryant Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bryant Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bryant Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc.
Where is Bryant Foundation Inc based?
Bryant Foundation Inc is based in KY.

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 75 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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