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The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc

To raise awareness for congenital heart disease (chd) and fund research to advance treatment options.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$2.9MYouth Development$148kEducation$17k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $1,218,402, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,445,454 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $227,052 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $172k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $1.0M
$45,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUIRE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$200,000
CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE$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
HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER$20,000
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$20,000
CHARLEYKIDS FOUNDATION$7,180
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS SOCIETY: $115k → 10%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $97k → 22%RUBY'S RAINBOW: $10k → 10%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $50k → 14%MEDICAL UNVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: $100k → 12%CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $98k → 14%BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL: $20k → 15%OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION: $83k → 11%HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $31k → 4%VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER UNIVERSITY: $199k → 14%DUKE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $33k → 11%CENTER FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE: $200k → 15%CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $194k → 16%LUIRE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 14%BELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $200k → 19%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $140k → 16%BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL: $9k → 15%OLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $30k → 4%VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%CHARLEYKIDS FOUNDATION: $7k → 15%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $30k → 14%JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $100k → 19%HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $30k → 4%PEDIATRIC HEART INSTITUTE-VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $30k → 14%JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $66k → 19%HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $27k → 4%PEDIATRIC HEART INSTITUTE-VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $100k → 14%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 14%JOHN HOPKINS ALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $29k → 19%HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $20k → 4%PEDIATRIC HEART INSTITUTE-VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $67k → 14%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 14%HIGH HOPES DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $10k → 4%GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
OH
PA
MO
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$1.9M
$370k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $716k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    6× · 2018–2023 · $566k · revenue +110%
  • JH
    JOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $395k · revenue +71%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $223k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +133%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $98k · revenue +42%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $97k · revenue +32%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
2
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

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…

Health
3
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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4
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

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.

Health
5
Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters

Dedicated to the mission of providing the best possible care and services for all children who come to us because of sickness and injury.

Health
6
Texas Children's Hospital

Texas children's hospital, headquartered in houston, texas, is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and…

Health
7
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
8
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

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…

Health
9
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
10
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
11
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation

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…

Health
12
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital; 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.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University Medical Center: $566,127 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical CenterJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $394,887 · HealthJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INCDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $222,965 · HealthDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INCChildren's Hospital Corporation: $219,770 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $200,000 · HealthAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of ChicagoGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $135,000 · HealthGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INCOLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION: $127,500 · HealthOLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATIONCONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS' SOCIETY: $115,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $98,372 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $96,828 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $93,500 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $200,000 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS H…CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $194,000 · OtherCINCINNATI CHILDREN'S …HIGH HOPES INC: $148,325 · OtherHIGH HOPES INCTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $50,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXA…Best Buddies International Inc: $29,008 · InternationalRUBY'S RAINBOW: $10,000 · EducationCHARLEYS KIDS FOUNDATION: $7,180 · Philanthropy
Health$2,384,949Other$592,325International$29,008Education$10,000Philanthropy$7,180

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $566,127 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS ALL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL INC: $394,887 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $222,965 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $219,770 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $148,325 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGIGI'S PLAYHOUSE INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetOLLIE HINKLE HEART FOUNDATION: $127,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCONGENITAL HEART SURGEONS' SOCIETY: $115,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $98,372 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $96,828 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $93,500 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $29,008 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELIEVE IN TOMORROW NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRUBY'S RAINBOW: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHARLEYS KIDS FOUNDATION: $7,180 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC12.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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 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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