· Private foundation
J P & Mary Jon Bryan Foundation
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $373k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $154,890 |
| BRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE | $118,500 |
| BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON | $50,000 |
| LONE STAR COASTAL ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| TSHA - TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $19,500 |
| THE ARTIST BOAT | $5,250 |
| NIGHT HERON MEDIA | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RUIDOSA CHURCH | $2,500 |
| WEST TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| MATAGORDA AREA RESPONSE FOR SUSTAINABLE HABITAT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BEBRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE2× · 2023–2025 · $126k · revenue +95%
- OCO CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +17%
- RCRhodes College3× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SSSAINT STEPHENS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $50k
- BCBERACHAH CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $26k
- OCO'CONNELL COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Teaching and Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Crossway is a not-for-profit Christian publishing ministry of Good News Publishers that exists to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and other means, in order, by God's grace: to bring people to Christ as their Lord and…
To foster biblical literacy through studies of all 66 books of the bible, cultivate professional and lay leadership skills, and deploy trained christian disciples in service worldwide.
Reformed baptist theological seminary see 4a below
God's bible school and college seeks to glorify god and to serve his church by providing higher education centered in holy scripture and shaped by wesleyan conviction, thus preparing faithful servants to proclaim jesus christ and spread…
Its purpose is to offer a holistic educational program that will motivate the student to value and achieve academi excellence within the context of commitment to moral and spiritual values.
Wesley biblical seminary is a multi-denominational school of theology that provides undergraduate, graduate and doctorate level education for individuals who are preparing for christian service.
Sacra Script Ministries is a Christian ministry whose principal activity is teaching and explaining the Bible. This includes presenting various courses and seminars and producing and distributing Bible study materials, including audio,…
Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.
The King's University integrates Biblical education and practical ministry to shape Spirit-formed individuals who follow Jesus, serve His Church, and are sent to impact the world.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 63 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.
- Who funds The Texas State Historical Association ↗
- Who funds BRYAN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALPINE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lone Star Coastal Alliance ↗
- Who funds O CONNELL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON ↗
- Who funds GALVESTON ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ARTIST BOAT INC ↗
- Who funds Grand Companions Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
- Who funds NIGHT HERON MEDIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Ippolito Charitable Foundation of Galveston · Harris & Eliza Kempner Fund Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · The Summerlee Foundation · The Moody Foundation · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization J P & Mary Jon Bryan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J P & Mary Jon Bryan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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