· Private foundation
Donald C Brace Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 42 grants below total $1,642,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,120,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $477,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $354k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Teton Valley | $140,000 |
| Literacy Council of Sarasota | $125,000 |
| Girls Inc Sarasota | $100,000 |
| Teton Valley Health Care | $100,000 |
| Friends of the Teton River | $75,000 |
| Columbia Uni Alumni Assn Gift Systems- Noelle Bannister | $75,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Foundation | $50,000 |
| Hope for Ukraine, Inc. Attn: Yuriy Boyechko | $50,000 |
| Valley of the Tetons Library | $50,000 |
| Sierra Club Foundation - Attn: Steve Carfagno | $50,000 |
| The Literacy Council of Lancaster Lebanon | $50,000 |
| New York City Ballet | $50,000 |
| Teton Valley Food Pantry | $50,000 |
| Metropolitan Opera | $50,000 |
| Food Corps | $50,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 18 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $652k 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
- TVTeton Valley Health Care2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +22%
- RIRIVERKEEPER INC3× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +29%
- LCLITERACY COUNCIL OF LANC-LEB LVA3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- GIGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +3%
- SISustainable Iowa Land Trone grant, 2022 · $75k
- CCColumbia Climate Schoolone grant, 2022 · $75k
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To conduct charitable, scientific and educational activities designed to foster the production of food in a manner that is economically viable and environmentally sound and provides for healthy and humanely raised products.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawthorne Valley Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Regina Opera Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 78 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.
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- Who funds TETON VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Teton Springs Foundation Inc 01 · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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.
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