· Private foundation
Mark E Bryant Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 127 grants below total $299,555 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $345,942 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,387 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k118 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $167k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| West Point Associate of Graduates | $26,000 |
| Marine Corps Heritage Foundation | $25,130 |
| MCLEF | $25,000 |
| USNA Assoc of Graduates | $25,000 |
| United States Air Force Academy AOG | $25,000 |
| St Edward Church | $10,700 |
| Haverhill High School | $10,000 |
| Float for Emma Inc. | $10,000 |
| Bannerman Castle Trust | $10,000 |
| Battleship Texas Foundation | $6,000 |
| Development of Earth Awareness | $5,505 |
| St Ann Place Outreach Center | $5,110 |
| Franciscan Sisters of Allegany | $5,000 |
| Town of New Windsor Police Department | $5,000 |
| FAR at West Point Inc | $5,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 77 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $182k 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
ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY2× · 2022–2024 · $53k · revenue +63%- MCMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $51k · revenue +152%
- MCMARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- AFAIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -10%
- UNUS NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue +68%
- SOSisters of St Joseph Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Advancing the art and science of navigation, positioning, and timing. the institute of navigation (ion) is a membership organization incorporated in january 1967 for the purpose of advancing the art and science of navigation through…
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
The air force memorial foundation was created to honor our airmen and preserve air force heritage by providing support to the air force memorial. effective march 1, 2017, the united states air force assumed responsibility for the…
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The john f. kennedy presidential library and museum (the "library") is the nation's official memorial to the thirty-fifth president. the library, which was constructed with private funds donated by the public, is administered by the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Palm Beach Chapter of the Rare Fruit Council International Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
137 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. 137 of the 169 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 ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds US NAVAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the American Revolution at West Point Inc ↗
- Who funds The Bannermans Castle Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds BATTLESHIP TEXAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARTH AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds St Ann Place Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Sisters of St Joseph Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VMI Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL AND ETHICAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds US COAST GUARD ACADEMY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN SISTERS OF THE POOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Old Man of the Mountain Revitalization FundInc ↗
- Who funds HANLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kasmar Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINDOO FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOB CARTER'S ACTORS WORKSHOP & REPERTORY ↗
- Who funds COUDERT INSTITUTE VILLA DEI FIORI INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Northrop Grumman Foundation · Stephen Warren Miles & Marilyn Ross Miles Foundation · ELSIE P AND LUCIUS B McCOWAN PRIVATE FOUNDATION · The Wilson Sexton Foundation · Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes · Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
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.
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