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Brystrong 4 Life Fund

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
71%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$957
Largest grant, FY2020
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 71% of the organizations Brystrong 4 Life Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthEducationOther
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
FY20207$15k71%
FY20196$8k33%
FY20186$7k50%
FY20175$8kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Education$19kRecreation & Sports$7kYouth Development$6kHealth$2kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$957Arts & Culture$100Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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About Brystrong 4 Life Fund

How much does Brystrong 4 Life Fund give?
Brystrong 4 Life Fund reported 7 grants totaling $15,261 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Brystrong 4 Life Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (49%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Youth Development (17%).
Who are Brystrong 4 Life Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Stevenson University ($9k), The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc ($7k), The Herren Project ($1k).
Does Brystrong 4 Life Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brystrong 4 Life Fund 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 Brystrong 4 Life Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Brystrong 4 Life Fund based?
Brystrong 4 Life Fund is based in MD.

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 15 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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