· Private foundation
Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $942k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $634k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| ST ANN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NORWEGIAN CULTURE | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHStoughton Hospital Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $885k · revenue +158% · 41% of their budget
- SASTOUGHTON AREA RESOURCE TEAM6× · 2020–2025 · $395k · revenue +68%
- MCMANDT COMMUNITY CENTERINC6× · 2020–2025 · $339k · revenue +78% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- SRSTOUGHTON ROTARY SPECIAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +14% · 32% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $60k
- SSSTOUGHTON SCHOOLS - FAB LABone grant, 2023 · $35k
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.
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
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.
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…
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.…
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.
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.
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 102 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds STOUGHTON ROTARY SPECIAL PROJECTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin E and Janet L Bryant Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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