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Brylawski Memorial Trust at a glance

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Brylawski Memorial Trust

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.

$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
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, FY2017 to 2024.

International$64kHealth$20kEducation$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kAnimals$10kCivil Rights$9kYouth Development$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$658k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$6,000
TREVOR PROJECT$5,000
MALALA FUND$3,000
BEAUVOIR SCHOOL$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TREVOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $21k → 17%AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $3k → 18%SCHEDULE K-1 VORNADO REALTY: $74 → 7%BEST BUDDIES CAPITAL REGION: $3k → 6%TOYS FOR TOTS: $2k → 7%SCHEDULE K-1 JBG SMITH PROPERTIES LP: $3 → 8%ST COLUMBA SCHOOL: $1k → 11%CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $5k → 19%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 17%BEAUVOIR SCHOOL: $3k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%FINCA INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $5k → 17%BEAUVOIR SCHOOL: $3k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $3k → 17%FINCA INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 14%BEAUVOIR SCHOOL: $3k → 14%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $5k → 14%SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT: $3k → 14%MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 14%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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$78k · 4 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$78k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+129%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCivil RightsEducationHealthAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $44k · revenue +79%
  • FI
    FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +157%
  • MG
    MILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $6k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +578%
  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
2
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
5
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
6
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
7
Namati Inc

Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…

Crime & Legal
8
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
9
Global Poverty Project Inc

Our mission is to build a movement of global citizens whose actions will help achieve our vision of a world without extreme poverty.

Social Science
10
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
11
International Federation of Accountants

Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…

Education
12
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is African Wildlife Foundation Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $44,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCBEAUVOIR SCHOOL: $8,000 · OtherBEAUVOIR SCHOOLCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $5,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF …BEST BUDDIES CAPITAL REGION: $3,000 · OtherBEST BUDDIES CAP…SOME INC: $2,500 · OtherSOME INCST COLUMBA SCHOOL: $1,000 · Other+2 more: $77 · OtherTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL …NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $6,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL …TREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PR…AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · AnimalsMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $6,000 · EducationTHE MALALA FUND: $3,000 · EducationSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 · Crime & LegalMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Philanthropy
International$69,000Other$19,577Health$15,000Civil Rights$11,000Animals$10,000Education$9,000Crime & Legal$3,000Philanthropy$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON GOTTESMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,500 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brylawski Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brylawski Memorial Trust. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 18 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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