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Bryson Foundation Limited
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNC CHAPEL HILL | $1,000,000 |
| BERRY COLLEGE | $1,000,000 |
| ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST | $15,000 |
| HIGHER ED WORKS | $10,000 |
| MPS SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NO 9 PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
| CAROLINA FOR KIBERA | $6,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HARN MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ST JOSEPH STATE PARKS | $5,000 |
| PHILLIPS CENTER | $5,000 |
| PRAIRIE CREEK CONSERVATION CEMETARY | $5,000 |
| HIPPODROME | $5,000 |
| RIVER PHOENIX CENTER FOR PEACEMAKING | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $201k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +29%
- DSDUKE SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +44%
- TETHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $483k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $400k
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)graduatedone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +28%
- MPMOREHEAD PLANETARIUM AND SCIENCE CENTERone grant, 2020 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Nourish people. build solutions. empower communities. no one goes hungry.
Seeking to put Gods love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Habitat for Humanity of North Carolina…
United Way envisions a community of opportunity where everyone has hope and can reach their full potential. United Way's mission is to solve Northeast Florida's toughest challenges by connecting people, resources and ideas.
To support its members and create an active, caring community by providing a continuum of quality lifestyle & healthcare programs and outstanding enrichment opportunities in conjunction with the university of florida.
To provide a caring, responsible community that fosters the independence of residents of retirement age by enhancing their capability to lead purposeful, active, healthy and secure lives.
United way suncoast's mission is to mobilize communities to action so all can thrive. (continued on schedule o)
Mobilizing the power of our community to break the cycle of poverty.
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.
The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.
Arbor acres, an affiliate ministry of the united methodist church, serves senior adults through facilities and programs that enhance opportunity for security, contentment and life with meaning and purpose.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Educational Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Duke School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 46 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds NO 9 PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Orange County NC Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ED WORKS ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of North Central Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC ↗
- Who funds Transplanting Traditions Community Farm ↗
- Who funds INTER-FAITH COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds St Francis House ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Florida · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Bryson Foundation Limited 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- United Way of North Central Florida Inc — 3% of income from government
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.
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