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Four Angels Foundation co Julie R Bromage at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Me2Orchestra$100,000
Vermont Community Foundation$64,683
02The need
03

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 (FY17–19, $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 its 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
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

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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
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

  • 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 -34% · 33% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $9k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EnvironmentFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $500 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMS: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GROW KIDS INC: $1,000 over 2y, 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 budgetCambridge Art Association: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHowardCenter Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLoud Light: $150 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Vermont Community…Boston Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Four Angels Foundation co Julie R Bromage funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Four Angels Foundation co Julie R Bromage. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Bagly Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont: 13% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • HowardCenter Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • ME2 Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Vermont Community Foundation: 0% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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