· Private foundation
R a Bryan Foundation Inc
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 $10k15 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $411k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NCSU STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION | $200,000 |
| NCSU SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | $200,000 |
| CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY-STUDENT UNION | $100,000 |
| VIDANT MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PITT COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS WILMINGTON | $50,000 |
| 3HC | $40,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $30,000 |
| AQUARIUM SOCIETY OF NC | $25,000 |
| WATCH | $25,000 |
| RYE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE FOUR DAY MOVEMENT | $25,000 |
| CONVERTING HEARTS | $24,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE COUNTY | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 9 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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
- NSNC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $954k · revenue +157%
- JAJo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc5× · 2017–2022 · $400k · revenue +153%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC4× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- NSNCSU School of Engineeringone grant, 2017 · $200k
- FBFirst Baptist Churchone grant, 2017 · $51k
- VMVidant Medical Center Foundationone grant, 2017 · $50k
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 a challenging learning environment in science, technology, engineering, and math to a diverse student population, enabling them to become problem-solving, peace-building, solution-focused citizens. the curriculum is designed to…
Enhance economic development
WNC Health Network, Inc supports people and organizations to improve community health and wellbeing across Western North Carolina.
To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.
Promote, lead, unite, and serve members, businesses, and the community in order for wayne county to be a great place to live, learn, and do business.
To operate a charter school in north carolina
The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
The nccee provides economic and financial education for educators and students throughout north carolina. this mission is accomplished through standards based workshops and a variety of resources for educators, academic competitions for…
To build public awareness of and provide funding to the nc museum of history.
Wayne health foundation conducts fundraising activities to generate revenue to support wayne memorial hospital and wayne health corporations and to promote the welfare of the citizens of wayne county.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Paramount Theatre Foundation the Paramount Theatre Foundation. 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 36 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 129 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 NC STATE STUDENT AID ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jo Ann Carter Harrelson Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MOUNT OLIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RYE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPUP MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF WAYNE CO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WAYNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds WAYNE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WAYNE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF WAYNE COUNTY 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: North Carolina Community Foundation · M & J Foundation Inc · Borden Foundation · Mount Olive Pickle Company Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Ellen & Munroe Best Family Foundation · Mid-Atlantic Foundation · The Borden Fund Inc · Southern Bank Foundation · United Way of Wayne County Inc · Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Cannon 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 R a Bryan Foundation Inc 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.