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The Brethen Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$815k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$26kEducation$16kCrime & Legal$6kAnimals$6kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$1kHousing & Shelter$500Arts & Culture$100

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation$20,27510%
NRA Foundation Inc$6,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$5,00010%
Pelotonia$5,00010%
Westerville Sunrise Rotary Foundation$5,00014%
Smoky Mountain Service Dogs$4,24020%
Adopt a Pit Rescue$1,00010%
Fort Loudon Childrens Fund Inc$1,0001n/a
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$11910%
Carillon Park Rail & Steam Society$1001n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($13k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Brethen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCardinal Glennon Children's Foundation: $20,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNRA Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPelotonia: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWesterville Sunrise Rotary Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSmoky Mountain Service Dogs: $4,240 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAdopt a Pit Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $119 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to The Brethen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Brethen 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.

About The Brethen Foundation

How much does The Brethen Foundation give?
The Brethen Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $50,134 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Brethen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (43%), Education (27%), Crime & Legal (10%).
Who are The Brethen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation ($20k), NRA Foundation Inc ($6k), Marine Toys for Tots Foundation ($5k).
Does The Brethen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Brethen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Brethen Foundation based?
The Brethen Foundation is based in TN.

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 15 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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