· Private foundation
J P & Mary Jon Bryan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| LONE STAR COASTAL ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| BETTER PARKS FOR GALVESTON | $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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
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.
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
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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Summit Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Night Heron Media. 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 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 NIGHT HERON MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Rhodes College ↗
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.
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
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 J P & Mary Jon Bryan Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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