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Michael and Augusta Brannen Charitable Trust at a glance

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Michael and Augusta Brannen Charitable Trust

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.

$71k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$141kHealth$83kFood & Nutrition$44kArts & Culture$35kReligion$34kEnvironment$13kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$21,462
Median grant
1
States reached
$977k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$28,462
BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND$21,462
HEART LOVE AND SOUL$21,462
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%HEART LOVE AND SOUL: $21k → 14%ALL EAGLES OSCAR FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%ST WILLIAMS CHURCH: $10k → 10%ABORTION ALTERNATIVE CHRISTIAN SERVICES: $5k → 14%SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEMS: $20k → 14%WEST CHARLESTON BAPTIST CHURCH: $3k → 18%UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%HEART LOVE AND SOUL: $20k → 14%ALL EAGLES OCEAN FOUNDATION: $13k → 14%SOUTHEAST GEORGIA MEDICAL: $15k → 14%HOSPICE WEST VIRGINIA: $3k → 18%BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $21k → 13%HEART LOVE AND SOUL: $3k → 14%ALL EAGLES OSCAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%SOUTHEAST GEORGIA MEDICAL: $10k → 14%MOUNTAIN MISSION INC: $3k → 18%BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $20k → 13%ALL EAGLES OSCAR FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%HAND IN HAND OF GLYNN: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $25k → 18%OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $28k → 13%SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $20k → 18%OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20k → 13%SOUTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $15k → 18%ST WILLIAMS CHURCH: $9k → 13%ST WILLIAMS CHURCH: $12k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON: $15k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$335k · 9 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$335k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+9%

Still filing today

56%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HEART LOVE & SOUL INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $44k · revenue +41%
  • TB
    THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $41k · revenue +6%
  • UA
    University at Buffalo Foundation Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $25k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SG
    Southeast Georgia Health System Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +9%
  • AE
    ALL EAGLES OCEAN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $13k
  • HI
    HAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -51%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital Authority

Southeast Georgia Health System Inc., assumed all of the operations of the Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital Authority on May 1, 2015 and has agreed to operate the facilities thereof as a community healthcare provider, offering safe,…

Health
2
Southeast Community Health Systems

The mission of Southeast Community Health Systems is to provide quality, affordable healthcare to all patients in underserved areas and to improve the health and wellness of the communities we serve.

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3
Cooperative Healthcare Services Inc

Cooperative Healthcare Services, Inc., will serve as a supporting organization to further enable Southeast Georgia Health System to provide safe, quality, accessible, and cost-effective care to meet the health needs of the people and…

Health
4
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
5
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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6
Bon Secours Ambulatory Services St Francis Llc

Bon Secours Ambulatory Services St. Francis, LLC (BSASSF) is an operating subsidiary of its sole member, Bon Secours Urgent Care SC LLC, which is a single member limited liability company (SMLLC) of BSMH Services, LLC. BSMH Services, LLC…

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7
Baptist Health System Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

Health
8
Bon Secours New York Health System Inc

Bon secours new york health system, inc. (bsnyhs) is the parent and central organization of an established integrated healthcare delivery system.

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9
Albany General Hospital Foundation

The foundation's specific purpose is to solicit, receive, and maintain gifts of money and property, and to make decisions on the distributions of such money and property, to support albany general hospital and health svcs in the general…

Health
10
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
11
Southwest Georgia Healthcare Clinics Inc

To provide, at the direction of our medical staff, a uniform level of such high-quality curative and palliative health care and diagnostic services as are within our scope of services to all who seek our aid, regardless of their ability to…

Health
12
Baptist Health System Foundation Inc

To make hope, healing and well-being accessible to every person as an expression of God's love.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Georgia Health System Inc; the most unlike its peers is Agape Women's Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $48,462 · OtherOISHEI CHILDREN'S HOSPITALALL EAGLES OSCAR FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherALL EAGLES OSCAR FOUNDATIONST WILLIAMS CHURCH: $31,000 · OtherST WILLIAMS CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALL EAGLES OCEAN FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherALL EAGLES OCEAN FOUNDATIONHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC: $10,000 · OtherHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INCSoutheast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc: $10,000 · OtherSoutheast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc+3 more: $7,500 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $75,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON …University at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationUniversity at Buffalo Foundat…HEART LOVE & SOUL INC: $43,962 · Food & NutritionHEART LOVE &…THE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $41,462 · PhilanthropyTHE BISON CH…Southeast Georgia Health System Inc: $20,000 · HealthAGAPE WOMEN'S SERVICES: $5,000 · Health
Other$179,962Education$100,000Food & Nutrition$43,962Philanthropy$41,462Health$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEART LOVE & SOUL INC: $43,962 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BISON CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $41,462 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Georgia Health System Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSoutheast Georgia Health System Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAGAPE WOMEN'S SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOUNTAIN MISSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Michael and Augusta Brannen Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Michael and Augusta Brannen Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Michael and Augusta Brannen Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Michael and Augusta Brannen Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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