· Private foundation
McBrier Foundation
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ERIE YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN | $7,500 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CREATIVE COMMUNITY CONNECTORS | $2,500 |
| MARIA HOUSE PROJECT | $2,500 |
| THE JEFFERSON SOCIETY | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
SMILE TRAIN INC4× · 2017–2022 · $11k · revenue +19%- CMCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE4× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +59%
- FFFAIRVIEW FIRE AND RESCUE2× · 2021–2022 · $1k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- EYERIE YACHT CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +47%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ERIEone grant, 2020 · $6k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.
Lake erie nature & science center educates and inspires each of us to understand, appreciate, and take responsibility for our natural world. serving more than 100,000 people each year with animal exhibits and programs, planetarium shows,…
The mission of the Erie Zoological Society is to: foster an appreciation of the natural world and the animals and plants that share it; establish educational recreational opportunities for all the people of Northwestern Pennsylvania;…
A non-profit organization dedicated to the protection, restoration, enhancement, and sustainable development of the lake erie watershed in pennsylvania.
The mission of the jefferson educational society of erie is to promote civic enlightenment and community progress for the erie region through study, research and discussion. the society conducts programs to further these goals.
The mission of the everhart museum of natural history, science, and art is to foster knowledge and enjoyment of natural history, science, art, and culture through a variety of exhibitions, educational programs, and events for people of all…
Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.
The mission of the erie cancer wellness center is to support those living with cancer and the people that care for them through free of charge programs and services that promote physical, emotional and mental healing.
The Erie County Bar Association serves the lawyers, judges & the public of Erie County, Pennsylvania by assisting our members in the practice of law & by engaging in activities that promote the public's understanding of & respect for our…
Revitalizing downtown by improving its image, business climate, physical environment and design
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arts Council of Erie and the most unlike its peers is Presque Isle Audubon Society. 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 60 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 62 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 SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Erie Yacht Club Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ERIE YACHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ERIE ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC ↗
- Who funds Maria House Project ↗
- Who funds Greater Erie Community Action Committee ↗
- Who funds ERIE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Lake Shore Fire Department ↗
- Who funds ERIE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ERIE CIVIC THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRESQUE ISLE AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
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: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Merwin Foundation · The Britton Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Wabtec Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Kern Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Erie County · The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation · Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc · The Arts Council of Erie
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 McBrier 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.
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.