· Public charity
The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc
To raise awareness for congenital heart disease (chd) and fund research to advance treatment options.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $1,218,402 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,445,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $227,052 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE | $200,000 |
| LUIRE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $194,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $190,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $139,770 |
| CONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS SOCIETY | $115,000 |
| OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE | $30,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC | $28,952 |
| DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $28,500 |
| BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $20,000 |
| CHARLEYKIDS FOUNDATION | $7,180 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k 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
- VUVanderbilt University Medical Center6× · 2018–2023 · $566k · revenue +110%
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC4× · 2021–2024 · $395k · revenue +71%
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC2× · 2022–2024 · $223k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- MUMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +133%
- CHCHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $98k · revenue +42%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $97k · revenue +32%
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.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…
Pediatric healthcare, education & research
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.
Children's hospital of pittsburgh foundation is the sole fundraising arm of upmc children's hospital of pittsburgh.the foundation exists to provide financial support for the hospital's mission of improving the health and well-being of…
Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…
Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.
Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…
Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…
Johns hopkins health system corporation provides centralized management of a multi-hospital healthcare system. it is a key component of johns hopkins medicine, a collaboration with the johns hopkins university school of medicine.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Charleys Kids Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS' SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUBY'S RAINBOW ↗
- Who funds CHARLEYS KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Brett Boyer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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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