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Four Angels Foundation co Julie R Bromage

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$165k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$213kHealth$168kArts & Culture$107kPhilanthropy$66kCivil Rights$16kEnvironment$10kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Me2Orchestra$100,000
Vermont Community Foundation$64,683
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Horizon's for Homeless Children: $600 → 16%Horizon's for Homeless Children: $500 → 16%Howard Center: $250 → 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

VT
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
MO
VA
KS
TN
DC
TX

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$267k · 26 repeat orgs$296k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
15

Total granted

$267k
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+43%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentCivil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +41%
  • VF
    VERMONT FOODBANK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +50%
  • OV
    OUTRIGHT VERMONT
    6× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +770%

Funded once

  • UF
    UNIVERSAL FORCE
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -66% · 33% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $9k

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
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
2
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.

Crime & Legal
3
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
4
National Institute for Reproductive Health Inc

National institute for reproductive health, inc. works to protect and advance equitable access to reproductive health care by building power at the state and local level. using an approach that is rooted in partnerships with state and…

Civil Rights
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Vermont Electric Cooperative Inc

Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.

7
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
8
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc

Our mission is to provide high quality and equitable reproductive and sexual health services, abortion, and education to all people, regardless of any barriers to healthcare that they may face.

9
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
10
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc

The center for reproductive rights ("the center") is an international non-governmental organization that uses the power of law to advance reproductive rights as fundamental human rights around the world.

Civil Rights
11
Healthquarters Inc

Healthq is committed to providing sexual and reproductive healthcare without judgment or barriers.

Health
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is Natural Resources Defense Council 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySouth Asian Cultural and Sp…Classical Music EnsemblesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Government Accountability R…Legal Aid & Immigration Ser…Cancer Support OrganizationsLgbtq+ Community CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Pantries & AssistancePregnancy Support Services
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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%37%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,533

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

32 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. 32 of the 43 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)
30/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Twinray Illuminations — $213,200 · ReligionTwinray IlluminationsUNIVERSAL FORCE — $150,000 · HealthUNIVERSAL FORCE+6 more — $6,450 · HealthME2 ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureME2 ORCHESTRA INCSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $4,200 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $250 · Arts & CultureTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $64,683 · PhilanthropyTHE VERMONT…Individual grant recipient — $20,000 · OtherIndividual gr…Planned Parernthood Federation of A — $9,900 · OtherPlanned Parer…Individual grant recipient — $9,000 · OtherIndividual gr…Planned Parenthood of N New England — $7,950 · OtherPlanned Paren…Me2Music for Mental Health — $2,500 · OtherVERMONT FOODBANK — $3,650 · OtherOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $2,900 · Other+19 more — $17,350 · Other+19 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $8,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $1,850 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS — $500 · EnvironmentFUND TEXAS CHOICE — $500 · EnvironmentGENERATOR INC — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Religion$213,200Health$156,450Arts & Culture$104,450Philanthropy$64,683Other$73,250Environment$10,850Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTwinray Illuminations — $213,200 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetUNIVERSAL FORCE — $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetME2 ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $64,683 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATOR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $3,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $2,900 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $2,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $1,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAGLY INC — $1,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $1,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $1,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GROW KIDS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSlamT1D Inc — $650 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONATE LIFE AMERICA — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHowardCenter Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCambridge Art Association — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoud Light — $150 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Four Angels Foundation co Julie R Bromage 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Bagly Inc39% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children21% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont13% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc9% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc8% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms3% of income from government
  • ME2 Orchestra Inc1% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 Four Angels Foundation co Julie R Bromage?

Find your warmest path to Four Angels Foundation co Julie R Bromage 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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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