· Private foundation
The Brant Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Massanutten Vocational Technical Center Foundation | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army | $2,500 |
| Valley Program for Aging Services Inc | $2,500 |
| Salvation Army | $2,500 |
| Washington & Lee University | $2,000 |
| Valley Mission Inc | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +7% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +16%
- MTMASSANUTTEN TECHNICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +701% · 63% of their budget
- SMSTILL MEADOWS ENRICHMENT CENTER AND CAMP2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- JMJAMES MADISON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $2k
- RWRide With Pride Incone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -19%
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 provide a safe happy and healthy therapeutic community that works to empower and propel our special needs citizens and their families to their fullest potential. We serve our valued clients by providing therapeutic horseback riding…
Our mission is to enable our neighbors westmoreland county residents who are hungry or at risk of hunger to have ready access to food.
Valley Mission currently operates a Food Pantry. New services offered in the new facility will inlcude an 18-bed emergency shelter, commercial kitchen/dining area, office space, medical clinic, 16-bed transformational living program (6…
The organization's purpose is to provide meals to the ederly, disabled, and homebound in fluvanna county, virginia.
To help individuals with disabilities strengthen their core muscles by riding a horse. We help them ride a horse. Also by being able to handle a large horse with the help of our volunteers gives them confidence and gives them a reason to…
It is our mission to provide food, clothing, household cleaning supplies, and personal hygiene products to low income seniors, veterans, homeless, children, and families.
Meals on Wheels delivers between 140-160 meals daily to homebound patients and serves approximately 50-60 clients daily at the Senior Center. The program averages between 40,000-45,000 meals yearly for seniors and disabled clients in…
The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…
To promote wellness for people with personal challenges who can benefit from equine-assisted activities and therapies in a safe and supportive environment.
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
The mission of the brookings backpack projecs is to assist children and youth in brookings county, sd who may not have enough food to eat at home by providing them with easy-to-prepare weekend meals and snacks throughout the year. by…
The greater wyoming valley area ymca (gwva ymca) is a volunteer led public charity that includes men, women and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions. our mission is to put christian principles into practice through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valley Program for Aging Services and the most unlike its peers is Washington and Lee University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 14 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 BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY PROGRAM FOR AGING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VALLEY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSANUTTEN TECHNICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds Ride With Pride Inc ↗
- Who funds STILL MEADOWS ENRICHMENT CENTER AND CAMP ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Brant 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.
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