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Bryant 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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$23kEducation$17kReligion$16kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kRecreation & Sports$6kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
11
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HACAP$2,000
Iowa Public Radio$1,500
Ronald McDonald House$1,369
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Iowa Public Television$1,000
Community Free Health Clinic$1,000
United Way of Eastern Iowa$1,000
Catherine McCauley Center$1,000
Infant Welfare Society of Chicago$750
First Lutheran Church$450
Colorado Gives 365$400
Ill Coalition for Immigrant and Ref$300
Envision Unlimited$300
Childrens Miracle Network Hospital$300
California Fire Foundation$300
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Boys Town: $100 → 12%Project for Pride in Living: $50 → 11%Camp Courageous: $100 → 11%Freedom Service Dogs of America: $300 → 8%Hopeful Heart Project: $150 → 12%Aging Services: $1k → 9%Catherine McCauley Center: $3k → 9%Camp Courageous: $50 → 11%Envision Unlimited: $300 → 14%Des Moines Are Religious Council: $400 → 10%Alliance for Immigrant Neighbors: $75 → 14%Des Moines Area Religious Council: $350 → 10%Christopher House: $75 → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Catherine McCauley Center: $1k → 9%Des Moines Area Religious Council: $200 → 10%World Food Program: $1k → 14%Catherine McCauley Center: $1k → 9%Hope Ministries: $100 → 10%American Red Cross: $750 → 14%Catherine McCauley Center: $1k → 9%World Food Program: $500 → 14%Catherine McCauley Center: $1k → 9%American Red Cross: $300 → 14%Catherine McAuley Center: $1k → 9%American Red Cross: $200 → 14%Aging Services: $1k → 9%Christopher House: $200 → 14%Waypoint: $250 → 9%Waypoint Services: $150 → 9%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
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
OR
IA
IN
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
DC
FL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 46 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
79

Total granted

$107k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

54%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • IP
    IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +32%
  • LC
    Linn County Trails Association
    6× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +92%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • TC
    Tippie College of Business
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • KM
    Keck Memorial Library
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • WF
    World Food Programs
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
4
United Way of North Central Iowa

Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…

Philanthropy
5
Children's Cancer Connection

Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.

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6
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
7
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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8
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
9
Community Health Care Inc

Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.

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10
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
11
Community Health Centers of Southeastern Iowa Inc

To provide primary health care to residents of the greater se iowa region, especially those individuals/families with limited resources or with other barriers to health care. see schedule o for additional information.

Health
12
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Mill Dog Rescue. 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

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 148 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/77
Grantees still filing
47/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH: $13,500 · OtherFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCHHACAP: $11,350 · OtherHACAPUniversity of Iowa: $10,250 · OtherUniversity of IowaPlanned Parenthood: $4,500 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodIowa Public Television: $4,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House: $3,369 · OtherAbbe Health Aging Services: $2,750 · Other+97 more: $31,717 · Other+97 moreCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $8,150 · Human ServicesCATHERINE MCAULE…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,450 · Human ServicesAmerican Nationa…AGING SERVICES INC: $2,050 · Human ServicesAGING SERVICES I…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE W…CENTRAL FURNITURE RESCUE: $1,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL FURNITUR…DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $950 · Human Services+10 more: $1,900 · Human Services+10 moreIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,200 · Arts & CultureIOWA PUBL…CONNECTCR INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCONNECTCR…BRUCEMORE INC: $375 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $350 · Arts & CultureMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,400 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $500 · International+2 more: $225 · InternationalLinn County Trails Association: $4,750 · Recreation & SportsIOWA BICYCLE COALITION INC: $850 · Recreation & SportsNational Mill Dog Rescue: $600 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $120 · Recreation & SportsBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,300 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC: $1,000 · HealthBACKLINE CARE INC: $600 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 · HealthBlood Bank of Alaska Inc: $250 · HealthIOWA ACES 360: $250 · Health+3 more: $250 · HealthFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $2,775 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $75 · Food & Nutrition
Other$81,436Human Services$18,500Arts & Culture$10,425International$7,125Recreation & Sports$6,320Health$4,050Food & Nutrition$2,850

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC: $8,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC: $7,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLinn County Trails Association: $4,750 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $3,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF IOWA: $2,775 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTCR INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAGING SERVICES INC: $2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL FURNITURE RESCUE: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORNING SUN COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetINFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA BICYCLE COALITION INC: $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Mill Dog Rescue: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBACKLINE CARE INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA PBS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAYPOINT SERVICES: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCEMORE INC: $375 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEnvision Unlimited: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE: $275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCEDAR RAPIDS COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA ACES 360: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS FIRST LAW CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Kids Mad City - Englewood: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB OF ILLINOIS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP COURAGEOUS OF IOWA: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREVENT CHILD ABUSE AMERICA: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVER HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $100 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.

  • Who funds CATHERINE MCAULEY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds Linn County Trails Association ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTCR INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds AGING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAST CENTRAL IOWA ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL FURNITURE RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds MORNING SUN COMMUNITY AMBULANCE SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds INFANT WELFARE SOCIETY OF CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds DES MOINES AREA RELIGIOUS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IOWA BICYCLE COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds National Mill Dog Rescue ↗
  • Who funds BACKLINE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE IOWA CITY COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗

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.

Alliant Energy Founda…GreenState Credit Uni…Greater Cedar Rapids …United Fire Group Fou…First Interstate Banc…Rohde Family Charitab…The Hall-Perrine Foun…The Kenneth K Kinsey …David Neuhaus Family …The McIntyre Foundati…Lavern T Busse & Audr…Community Foundation …
Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI48.4× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · GreenState Credit Union · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · United Fire Group Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · The Kenneth K Kinsey Family Foundation · David Neuhaus Family Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · Lavern T Busse & Audrey Busse Foundation · Community Foundation of Johnson County

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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.

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 148 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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