· Private foundation
Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $44k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| PUTNEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE VISIONS | $5,000 |
| READ TO GROW | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP PLACE | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WOMEN AND FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ENSEMBLENEWSRQ | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +43%
- PSPUTNEY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +47%
- FPFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +56%
- PPPLANNNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2018 · $10k
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONAone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -18%
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.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southern Conservation Partners Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE & COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY CO BURK & ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLENEWSRQ INC ↗
- Who funds AS 220 ↗
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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fellowship Place Inc — 56% of income from government
- Putney School 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.