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John & Ardell Brumit Educational Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$54k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of JOHN & ARDELL BRUMIT EDUCATIONAL TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$18,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$18,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $6k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $4k → 14%MORGAN KENNEDY: $18k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $6k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%MOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $3k → 13%REBECCA FLEETWOOD: $18k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $12k → 8%GERMANNA COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $4k → 10%BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON: $7k → 15%SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $6k → 17%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $4k → 20%VIRGINIA TECH: $10k → 21%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $24k → 29%DICKINSON COLLEGE: $3k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL: $6k → 14%WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $3k → 15%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $9k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON: $4k → 15%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $6k → 17%LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 20%TREASURER OF VIRGINIA TECH: $9k → 21%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $7k → 29%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN LAW SCHOOL: $4k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $8k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON: $4k → 15%CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%VIRGINIA TECH: $8k → 21%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $24k → 22%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 29%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $7k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON: $3k → 15%VIRGINIA TECH: $6k → 21%WYATT HENDERSON: $18k → 22%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 29%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $7k → 8%VIRGINIA TECH: $5k → 21%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 29%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $4k → 8%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $4k → 22%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
MI
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MA
IN
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CA
WV
VA
MD
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NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
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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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$300k · 25 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
34

Total granted

$300k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+30%

Still filing today

44%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • LU
    LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +75%
  • DICKINSON COLLEGE
    3× · 2019–2022 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • TO
    TREASURER OF VIRGINIA TECH
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • JM
    JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +22%

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
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

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

6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
11
Randolph College Inc

See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o

Education
12
LaGrange College

Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilson College and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 82 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr14%7%20–35yr15%13%35–55yr15%80%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr14%13%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr15%63%55yr+

The field is 23% 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%0/31
the rest of the field
13%
6,446/50,437

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

28 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. 28 of the 64 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
26/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $47,650 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $45,692 · OtherVIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITYJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY — $43,192 · OtherJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYVIRGINIA TECH — $30,550 · OtherVIRGINIA TECHUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON — $22,550 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTONCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY — $20,275 · OtherCHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $18,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+30 more — $73,350 · Other+30 moreLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $12,050 · EducationLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INCUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $11,075 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN…DICKINSON COLLEGE — $9,675 · EducationDICKINSON COLLEGEWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $7,900 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYThe Trustees of Princeton University — $6,550 · EducationThe Trustees of Prince…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $5,750 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSIT…SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $5,250 · EducationSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITYSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $4,650 · EducationSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSI…+17 more — $19,850 · Education+17 more
Other$337,259Education$82,750

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 budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC — $12,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $11,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $9,675 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $7,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $6,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $5,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan — $5,750 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $4,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEWATER COLLEGE — $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University — $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClark Atlanta University Inc — $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY — $1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELMIRA COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LYNCHBURG — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILSON COLLEGE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds University of Michigan
  • Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE
  • Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME OF MARYLAND UNIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds Norwich University
  • Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Clark Atlanta University Inc
  • Who funds VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY

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.

Verizon FoundationNJ17.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Scott Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 John & Ardell Brumit Educational Trust 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • University of Delaware25% of income from government
  • Norwich University14% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University4% of income from government
  • Notre Dame of Maryland University Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 64 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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