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· Private foundation

David a Bramble Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$180k
Granted FY2025still arriving
111
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$747kPublic Safety & Disaster$176kHealth$140kReligion$99kAnimals$35kHuman Services$30kEnvironment$26kArts & Culture$24kOther$0
02FY2025 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k107 grants · $132k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$996k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENT SCHOOL INC$16,500
RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL$11,500
CHESTER RIVER HEATH FOUNDATION$10,000
DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION$10,000
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY$7,074
MESSIAH UNIVERSITY$5,464
MESSIAH UNIVERSITY$5,280
ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE$5,091
ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE$4,921
OPEN DOORS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$4,880
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$4,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$4,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CONSTRUCTION ANGELS: $500 → 11%UPPER SHORE AGING: $250 → 8%CONSTRUCTION ANGELS: $500 → 11%UPPER SHORE AGING: $250 → 8%UPPER SHORE AGING: $250 → 8%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%TALBOT HOSPICE: $500 → 10%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%WALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%SHORE LEGAL ACCESS: $500 → 10%TALBOT HOSPICE: $500 → 10%CHESTER WYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%CHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%CHESTER WYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%CHESTER WYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%TALBOT HOSPICE: $500 → 10%CHESTER WYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%TALBOT HOSPICE: $500 → 10%CHESTER WYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%TALBOT HOSPICE: $500 → 10%CHESTER WYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%SHORE LEGAL ACCESS: $500 → 10%CHESTER WYE CENTER INC: $500 → 7%CHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $100 → 7%KENT CENTER INC: $1k → 12%KENT CENTER INC: $1k → 12%KENT CENTER INC: $1k → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%HOMEPORTS INC: $500 → 12%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

ME
ND
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 148 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

148 repeat relationships: 96 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

148
18

Total granted

$1.5M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+55%

Still filing today

42%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
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

  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +32%
  • RH
    ROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +65%
  • CR
    Chester River Hospital Center Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • RH
    ROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY CAP CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE CO
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • US
    UNITED STATES MECHANT MARINE ACADEM
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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4
Delaware State University

Delaware state university is a public, comprehensive, 1890 land-grant institution that offers access and opportunity to diverse populations from delaware, the nation, and the world. (continued on schedule o.)building on its heritage as a…

Education
5
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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6
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
7
Waynesburg University

Waynesburg university educates students to make connections between faith, learning and serving so they might faithfully transofrm their communiities and the world. see continuation on schedule o.as a christian comprehensive university, we…

Education
8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
Marymount University

Marymount is a nationally ranked comprehensive catholic university, guided by the traditions of the religious of the sacred heart of mary, that emphasizes intellectual curiosity, service to others, and a global perspective. a marymount…

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11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chester River Health Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kent County Wrestling Boosters Club 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

74 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. 74 of the 175 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
62/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $68,250 · OtherROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANYUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $53,017 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDSALISBURY UNIVERSITY: $31,254 · OtherCHESTER RIVER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CHURCH: $27,000 · Other+124 more: $599,906 · Other+124 moreKENT SCHOOL INC: $199,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOL INCRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $110,000 · EducationRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INCMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $26,197 · EducationWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $25,096 · EducationELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $23,879 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $19,918 · EducationCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $19,201 · Education+15 more: $140,146 · Education+15 moreChester River Hospital Center Inc: $50,000 · HealthMemorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $6,000 · HealthSNOW HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $6,000 · HealthKENT & QUEEN ANNE'S RESCUE SQUADIN: $3,000 · Health+2 more: $500 · HealthDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $39,500 · Animals+1 more: $700 · AnimalsKENNEDYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $9,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BETTERTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED: $9,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & DisasterHOMEPORTS INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesCHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $4,100 · Human ServicesWALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Human ServicesKent Center Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesTALBOT HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCONSTRUCTION ANGELS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesUPPER SHORE AGING INC: $750 · Human ServicesSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureMASSEY AIR MUSEUM INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureHAVRE DE GRACE DECOY MUSEUM INC: $1,650 · Arts & CultureCHURCH HILL THEATRE INC: $1,125 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF KENT CO MD: $900 · Arts & Culture
Other$809,427Education$563,437Health$65,500Animals$40,200Public Safety & Disaster$24,000Human Services$20,350Arts & Culture$16,675

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 budgetKENT SCHOOL INC: $199,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetRADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC: $110,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $68,250 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetChester River Hospital Center Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $39,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMESSIAH UNIVERSITY: $26,197 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE: $25,096 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE: $23,879 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $19,918 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN: $19,201 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARS HILL UNIVERSITY: $18,458 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC: $17,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMCDANIEL COLLEGE INC: $16,309 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC: $13,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $13,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetOPEN DOORS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $12,880 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE MARYLAND ASPHALT ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $11,446 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $11,058 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COLLEGE: $11,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChester River Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC: $10,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCHURCH HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGALENA VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetKENNEDYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $9,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BETTERTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED: $9,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSULTANA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GUNSTON SCHOOL INC: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWYE RIVER UPPER SCHOOL INC: $8,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWILMINGTON UNIVERSITY INC: $7,094 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Hospital Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSNOW HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRUITLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHESAPEAKE INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMASSEY AIR MUSEUM INC: $4,500 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetHOMEPORTS INC: $4,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCHESTERWYE CENTER INC: $4,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKENT ATTAINABLE HOUSING INC: $4,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc: $3,750 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetWALK THE WALK FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKENT & QUEEN ANNE'S RESCUE SQUADIN: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCK HALL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Chester River Hospital Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MESSIAH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds MARS HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS REGIONAL HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds MCDANIEL COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTERTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND ASPHALT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Belmont University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Chester River Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARTINS MINISTRIES INC ↗

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.

Mid Shore Community F…Fordi Family Foundati…Friel Foundation IncThe Llandaff Family T…The Keith Campbell Fo…W Paul Starkey Founda…Dock Street FoundationBarbara L Thomas Foun…Bernard and Betty Har…The Clifton Foundatio…The Salmon Foundation…Gladwood Foundation
Mid Shore Community Foundation IncMD60.5× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Fordi Family Foundation Inc · Friel Foundation Inc · The Llandaff Family Trust · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · W Paul Starkey Foundation · Dock Street Foundation · Barbara L Thomas Foundation · Bernard and Betty Hardesty Charitable Foundation Inc · The Clifton Foundation Inc · The Salmon Foundation Inc · Gladwood Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Kent Attainable Housing Inc: 100% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Upper Shore Aging Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Rebuilding Together Eastern Shore Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shore Legal Access Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Sultana Education Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Oyster Recovery Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wilmington University Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Chesterwye Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Pilot School Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Washington College: 0% of income from government
  • Mcdaniel College Inc: 0% of income from government
  • St Andrew's School of Delaware Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 175 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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