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The Britton Family Foundation at a glance

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The Britton Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$265k
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$660kHuman Services$295kArts & Culture$281kEducation$160kEnvironment$97kFood & Nutrition$65kAnimals$46kReligion$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $188k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION$22,875
BAYFRONT MARITIME CENTER$20,000
ERIE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION GREATER PA$10,000
GREATER ERIE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMAN$10,000
SARAH REED CHILDREN'S CENTER$10,000
ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS$10,000
CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS$10,000
ASBURY WOODS PARTNERSHIP$10,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$10,000
STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORIAL HEALTH$10,000
ACHIEVEMENT CENTER$10,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT$10,000
ERIE CITY MISSION$10,000
DR GERTRUDE BARBER FOUNDATION$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $3k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $2k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $2k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $2k → 15%ST MARTIN CENTER INC: $2k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $4k → 15%SAFENET: $4k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $3k → 15%SAFENET: $3k → 15%SAFENET: $3k → 15%SAFENET: $3k → 15%SAFENET: $2k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $2k → 15%SAFENET: $2k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $2k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $2k → 15%SAFENET: $2k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $2k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $2k → 15%SAFENET: $2k → 15%PERSEUS HOUSE: $1k → 15%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 50 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
6

Total granted

$2.0M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+35%

Still filing today

64%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • EA
    ERIE ART MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +4%
  • HH
    HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $116k · revenue +52%
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SJ
    ST JUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SL
    ST LUKE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Erie Independence House Inc

Erie Independence House, Inc. (EIH) exists to enhance and promote independence in people with disabilities through the provision of accessible, affordable, adaptive housing necessary for them to lead productive, independent lives. We offer…

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2
Hospice of Metropolitan Erie Inc

To provide support to the terminally ill

Human Services
3
Erie Cancer and Wellness Foundation dba - Erie Cancer Wellness Center

The mission of the erie cancer wellness center is to support those living with cancer and the people that care for them through free of charge programs and services that promote physical, emotional and mental healing.

Health
4
Erie Marsh Conservation Foundation
Environment
5
East Erie County Emergency Medical Services Corporation

To provide emergency medical services with advanced and basic life support capabilities, ambulance transportation services, and providing trained personnel to assist local fire departments.

Community Improvement
6
Catholic Charities Counseling & Adoption Services of the Diocese of Erie Inc

Provide adoption, counseling services, and refugee assistance

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7
Erie Family Health Center Inc

Motivated by the belief that healthcare is a human right, erie family health centers, inc. (erie) provides high quality, affordable care to support healthier people, families and communities. erie's mission is an outgrowth of the civil…

Health
8
Erie Neighborhood House

Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…

Human Services
9
Mental Health Services - Erie Co Northw

The mission is to establish nurturing and sustained relationships with individuals, families and community stakeholders to foster growth, self-efficancy and independence by providing innovative evidenced based treatment focused on a whole…

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10
Erie County Economic Development Charitable Fund

To facilitate both the creation and retention of jobs within erie county and increase economic opportunities for individuals and businesses through comprehensive economic development programs.

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11
Greater Erie Economic Development Corporation
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12
Crime Victim Center of Erie County Inc

To provide counseling and crisis intervention services to victims of sexual assault and other violent crimes and their significant others.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Erie Homes for Children & Adults Inc; the most unlike its peers is Caring 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

36 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. 36 of the 58 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $275,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSARAH A REED CHILDREN'S CENTER: $72,000 · OtherSARAH A REED CHILDREN'S CENTERALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION GREATER PA: $67,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION GREATER PADR GERTRUDE BARBER FOUNDATION: $67,000 · OtherDR GERTRUDE BARBER FOUNDATIONGREATER ERIE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMAN: $67,000 · OtherGREATER ERIE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $64,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE: $64,500 · OtherCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIEEXPERIENCE ERIE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $56,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $47,000 · OtherAUTISM SOCIETY-NORTHWESTERN PA: $41,000 · Other+27 more: $342,500 · Other+27 moreHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $116,000 · HealthHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATIONSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $72,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CH…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $67,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEAR…ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $64,500 · HealthACHIEVEMENT CENTER INCSTAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $62,000 · HealthSTAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEAL…ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $48,500 · HealthERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN &…Parkinson Partners of Northwestern Pennsylvania: $20,000 · HealthEMERGYCARE INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthERIE ART MUSEUM: $125,000 · Arts & CultureERIE ART MUS…Erie County Historical Society: $50,000 · Arts & CultureErie County …Flagship Niagara League: $49,500 · Arts & CultureFlagship Nia…Erie Maritime Foundation Bayfront Maritime Center: $74,500 · EducationBlended Spirits Ranch: $4,000 · EducationSAFENET INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesPERSEUS HOUSE INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesSt Martin Center: $11,000 · Human ServicesEHCA FOUNDATION: $18,500 · Housing & ShelterCommunity Shelter Services Inc: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $17,000 · AnimalsORPHAN ANGELS CAT SANCTUARY: $17,000 · Animals
Other$1,163,500Health$471,000Arts & Culture$224,500Education$78,500Human Services$49,000Housing & Shelter$35,500Animals$34,000

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 budgetERIE ART MUSEUM: $125,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $116,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetErie Maritime Foundation Bayfront Maritime Center: $74,500 over 8y, 22% of budgetSARAH A REED CHILDREN'S CENTER: $72,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $72,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $67,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $64,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE: $64,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSTAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC: $62,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetErie County Historical Society: $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFlagship Niagara League: $49,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC: $48,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY WOODS PARTNERSHIP INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetParkinson Partners of Northwestern Pennsylvania: $20,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetMERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP NOTRE DAME INC: $20,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSAFENET INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEMERGYCARE INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEHCA FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPERSEUS HOUSE INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMercy Hilltop Senior Center Inc: $17,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Shelter Services Inc: $17,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS: $17,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetORPHAN ANGELS CAT SANCTUARY: $17,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetEARLY CONNECTIONS INC: $17,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHarborcreek Youth Services Inc: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetERIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Martin Center: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVIEW FIRE AND RESCUE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetErie Yacht Club Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetBlended Spirits Ranch: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSt Patrick's Haven Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetERIE YACHT CLUB: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ERIE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HAMOT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Erie Maritime Foundation Bayfront Maritime Center ↗
  • Who funds SARAH A REED CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY MISSION OF THE EVANGELICAL CHURCHES OF ERIE ↗
  • Who funds STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Erie County Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds Flagship Niagara League ↗
  • Who funds ERIE HOMES FOR CHILDREN & ADULTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY WOODS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Parkinson Partners of Northwestern Pennsylvania ↗
  • Who funds MERCY CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP NOTRE DAME INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFENET INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERGYCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds EHCA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PERSEUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Hilltop Senior Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds Community Shelter Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANNA FOUNDATION INC ASSOC FOR NEEDY AND NEGLECTED ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN ANGELS CAT SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds EARLY CONNECTIONS INC ↗

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.

Erie Community Founda…M J Surgala TrWabtec FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Merwin FoundationNorthwest Charitable …Hamot Health Foundati…United Way of Erie Co…The Henry A and Mary …John M & Gertrude E P…McBrier FoundationVorsheck Family Found…
Erie Community FoundationPA68.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Erie Community Foundation · M J Surgala Tr · Wabtec Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Merwin Foundation · Northwest Charitable Foundation · Hamot Health Foundation · United Way of Erie County · The Henry A and Mary J MacDonald Foundation · John M & Gertrude E Petersen Foundation · McBrier Foundation · Vorsheck Family Foundation Inc

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 Britton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Britton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Britton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Britton Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 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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