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The Braitmayer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$297k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$447kYouth Development$91kEnvironment$76kArts & Culture$73kFood & Nutrition$50kAnimals$45kHealth$31kHuman Services$14kPhilanthropy$9kOther$521k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
APPRENTICE LEARNING$50,000
GROW PORTLAND$45,000
SEATLE UNIVERSITY$44,832
SPEAK WITH PURPOSE$37,316
GNOME INC$35,000
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY$35,000
826 BOSTON$35,000
VASE$3,000
FOOD FOR ALL SERVICES$2,000
ISLANDWOOD$2,000
ANERA$2,000
MARY'S PLACE$2,000
ANERA$1,000
NICARAGUAN$1,000
ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Al Otro Lado: $1k → 14%FOOD FOR ALL SERVICES: $2k → 7%Charity Water: $2k → 17%Maine Immigrants Rights Coalition: $2k → 7%Open Doors for Multicultural Famili: $3k → 9%Disability Rights Washington: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$118k · 17 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
75

Total granted

$118k
$938k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+31%

Still filing today

76%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $291k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • PG
    PROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $37k · revenue +56%
  • CR
    CURE RARE DISEASE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue ×78
  • OS
    OUR SISTERS SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • NS
    NACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +114%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue -4%
  • I
    IMMSCHOOLSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +349%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
4
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
6
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
9
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
12
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc

The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School and the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Community FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesChristian Missionary Organi…Lgbtq+ Community SupportYouth Sports ProgramsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Independent K-12 SchoolsImmigrant Worker Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%34%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%50%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,488

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.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 106 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
75/77
Grantees still filing
58/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $44,832 · OtherSEATTLE UNIVERSITYPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITYADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $35,000 · OtherADVOCATES FOR YOUTHIMMSCHOOLS — $35,000 · OtherIMMSCHOOLSUniversity of Central Missouri — $35,000 · OtherUniversity of Central MissouriThe North Carolina Museum of Histor — $35,000 · OtherThe North Carolina Museum of HistorUniversity of Iowa — $35,000 · OtherUniversity of IowaWilliam and Mary — $35,000 · OtherWilliam and MaryKVC Behavioral Healthcare West Virg — $35,000 · OtherKVC Behavioral Healthcare West VirgGNOME INC — $35,000 · OtherGNOME INCCOMMUNITY GUILDS INC — $35,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY GUILDS INCShorewood School District — $32,500 · OtherShorewood School DistrictCURE RARE DISEASE INC — $24,000 · Other+50 more — $122,250 · Other+50 moreSPEAK WITH PURPOSE — $37,316 · EducationSPEAK WITH PURPOSENACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $35,000 · EducationNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORKICIVICS INC — $35,000 · EducationICIVICS INCCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION — $35,000 · EducationCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORP…THE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $35,000 · EducationTHE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTETHE ORCHARD FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationTHE ORCHARD FOUNDATIONNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…GARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND — $35,000 · EducationGARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUN…826 BOSTON INC — $35,000 · Education826 BOSTON INCINSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC — $35,000 · EducationINSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INCUrban College Of Boston — $34,000 · EducationUrban College Of BostonUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $32,756 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRIC…+12 more — $27,750 · Education+12 moreAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC — $37,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentEcoRise Youth Innovations — $35,000 · EnvironmentCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC — $34,000 · Environment+3 more — $6,500 · EnvironmentKQED INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureDC LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROJECT INC — $33,959 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $4,000 · Arts & CultureGROW PORTLAND — $45,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LIFELINE — $4,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $30,000 · AnimalsTHE BURLEIGH MANOR ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND ECO-RETREAT INC — $15,000 · Animals
Other$573,582Education$446,822Youth Development$91,000Environment$75,500Arts & Culture$72,959Food & Nutrition$50,000Animals$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGROW PORTLAND — $45,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $44,832 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPEAK WITH PURPOSE — $37,316 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPROFOUND GENTLEMEN INC — $37,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetNACA-INSPIRED SCHOOLS NETWORK — $35,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIMMSCHOOLS — $35,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetICIVICS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCSU FULLERTON AUXILIARY SERVICES CORPORATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 1881 RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $35,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE ORCHARD FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcoRise Youth Innovations — $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGARDEN STATE EQUALITY EDUCATIONAL FUND — $35,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY GUILDS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 10% of budget826 BOSTON INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetINSTITUTO NUEVA ESCUELA INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKQED INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban College Of Boston — $34,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC — $34,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDC LANGUAGE IMMERSION PROJECT INC — $33,959 over 1y, 22% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $32,756 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCURE RARE DISEASE INC — $24,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTHE BURLEIGH MANOR ANIMAL SANCTUARY AND ECO-RETREAT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE TREE SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMorningside Academy — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKiran Anjali Project — $4,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JACK FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOPEN DOORS FOR MULTICULTURAL FAMILIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOLA FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFURNITURE FRIENDS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSide x Side Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Karina FoundationSouthcoast Community …Bristol County Saving…The Carney Family Cha…Boston Foundation IncThe Ludes Family Foun…First Citizens Charit…Eastern Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…Maine Community Found…Association for the R…Southcoast Hospitals …
The Karina FoundationMA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Karina Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ludes Family Foundation · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford · Southcoast Hospitals Group 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 The Braitmayer 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
  • Grow Portland — 36% of income from government
  • Friends of Jack Foundation Inc — 36% of income from government
  • South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
  • The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Braitmayer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Braitmayer Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 106 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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