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Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$140k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of EDWIN E AND JANET L BRYANT FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $942k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $634k
$24,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STOUGHTON SCHOOLS$140,000
YOUTH CENTER OF STOUGHTON$106,852
MANDT COMMUNITY CENTER$92,326
STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM (START)$75,000
Individual grant recipient$60,000
UNIVERSITY OF WI MADISON$60,000
FRIENDS OF NORWEGIAN CULTURE$50,000
ST ANN SCHOOL$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF LA CROSSE$48,000
NAGCL - NATIONAL NORWEGIAN CENTER$45,000
THREE GAITS INC$44,000
UNIVERSITY OF EAU CLAIRE$42,000
STOUGHTON AREA SENIOR CENTER$40,000
STOUGHTON LIBRARY$35,000
VESTERHEIM$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM (START): $75k → 10%STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM (START): $70k → 10%STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM (START): $65k → 10%STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM (START): $65k → 10%STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM (START): $65k → 10%STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM (START): $55k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.9M · 69 repeat orgs$727k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
22

Total granted

$7.9M
$348k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+6%

Still filing today

36%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SH
    Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $885k · revenue +158% · 41% of their budget
  • SA
    STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $395k · revenue +68%
  • MC
    MANDT COMMUNITY CENTERINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $339k · revenue +78% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $60k
  • SR
    STOUGHTON ROTARY SPECIAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +14% · 32% of their budget
  • SA
    STOUGHTON AREA BASEBALL ASSN
    one grant, 2022 · $35k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
3
Dordt University

As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…

Education
4
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

5
Augustana University Association

Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.

Education
6
St Olaf College

St. olaf college challenges students to excel in the liberal arts, examine faith and values, and explore meaningful vocation in an inclusive, globally engaged community nourished by lutheran tradition.

Education
7
St Mary's University

St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.

8
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
9
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
10
St Ambrose University

Mission statement: an inclusive, catholic, and diocesan community of learners, st. ambrose university empowers all ambrosians to act courageously, to seek wisdom through faith and reason, to work for justice, and to lead lives of service.…

Education
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Norbert College Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stoughton Area Resource Team. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEquine Therapy ProgramsCommunity FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 68 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%3%<5yr12%3%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr16%3%35–55yr19%62%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%25%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr16%6%35–55yr19%25%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
8%
3,022/36,484

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.

04the grantee network

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRIENDS OF STOUGHTON YOUTH CENTER — $473,790 · OtherFRIENDS OF STOUGHTON YOUTH CENTERUNIVERSITY OF WI MADISON — $372,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WI MADISONIndividual grant recipient — $360,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF LA CROSSE — $321,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LA CROSSEST ANN SCHOOL — $300,000 · OtherST ANN SCHOOLSTOUGHTON AREA SENIOR CENTER — $290,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF EAU CLAIRE — $192,000 · OtherNAGCL - NATIONAL NORWEGIAN CENTER — $188,700 · Other+61 more — $2,960,707 · Other+61 moreStoughton Hospital Foundation Inc — $885,000 · PhilanthropyStoughton Hos…STOUGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 · PhilanthropySTOUGHTON COM…VITERBO UNIVERSITY — $138,000 · EducationVITERBO UNI…STOUGHTON SPORTS BOOSTERSINC — $115,000 · EducationSTOUGHTON S…EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $108,000 · EducationEDGEWOOD UN…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC — $72,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …STOUGHTON ROTARY SPECIAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · EducationSTOUGHTON R…ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC — $60,000 · EducationST NORBERT …Marquette University — $60,000 · EducationMarquette U…Taylor University — $36,000 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $36,000 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGE — $36,000 · Education+13 more — $212,000 · Education+13 moreMANDT COMMUNITY CENTERINC — $339,326 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF NORWEGIAN CULTURE INC — $226,500 · Arts & CultureSTOUGHTON OPERA HOUSE FRIENDS ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSTOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM — $395,000 · Human ServicesALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $120,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF LAKE KEGONSA SOCIETY INC — $105,000 · EnvironmentTHREE GAITS INC — $210,140 · Recreation & SportsTHE STOUGHTON FAIR ASSOCIATION INC — $4,840 · Food & Nutrition
Other$5,458,197Philanthropy$1,065,000Education$933,000Arts & Culture$590,826Human Services$395,000Environment$225,000Recreation & Sports$210,140Food & Nutrition$4,840

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetStoughton Hospital Foundation Inc — $885,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetSTOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM — $395,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetMANDT COMMUNITY CENTERINC — $339,326 over 6y, 32% of budgetFRIENDS OF NORWEGIAN CULTURE INC — $226,500 over 5y, 36% of budgetTHREE GAITS INC — $210,140 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetSTOUGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $180,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 59 — $150,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY — $138,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $120,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSTOUGHTON SPORTS BOOSTERSINC — $115,000 over 2y, 66% of budgetEDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC — $108,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKE KEGONSA SOCIETY INC — $105,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC — $72,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTOUGHTON ROTARY SPECIAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetST NORBERT COLLEGE INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarquette University — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF STOUGHTON — $52,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetTaylor University — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE — $36,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULINARY INSTITUTE OF AMERICA — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DUBUQUE — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANNA UNIVERSITY — $24,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY — $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARANATHA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity International University — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian University — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIPON COLLEGE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 Stoughton Hospital Foundation Inc
  • Who funds STOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM
  • Who funds MANDT COMMUNITY CENTERINC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF NORWEGIAN CULTURE INC
  • Who funds THREE GAITS INC
  • Who funds STOUGHTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 59
  • Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC
  • Who funds STOUGHTON SPORTS BOOSTERSINC
  • Who funds EDGEWOOD UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LAKE KEGONSA SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds STOUGHTON ROTARY SPECIAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ST NORBERT COLLEGE INC
  • Who funds Marquette University

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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI22.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Wahlin Foundation Inc · Tobola Educational Trust · The Casper Foundation · Herb Kohl Educational Foundation Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Culver's Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Ascendium Education Solutions Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Herbert H Kohl Charities 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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