· Private foundation
The Brotherhood Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $13,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA DISASTER RELIEF FUND | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $9,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SEMINARY | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $5,000 |
| THE SAFE ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| MARCO LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | $5,000 |
| RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY | $5,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE INC | $4,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS HOUSE | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those 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 +31% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2023 · $44k · revenue +145%- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC7× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +34%
- SMST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +262%
Funded once
- SHSecond Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +29%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $11k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Pathways to housing pa empowers people with disabilities to improve their housing stability, achieve better health, and reclaim their lives.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
Habitable has a vision that all people and the planet thrive when the materials economy is in balance with nature. our mission is to improve human and environmental health by creating bold, science-based solutions that inspire materials…
Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care,…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity of the sanford area,…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity of wake county brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Passage Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 48 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF MAHONING VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER CHILDRENS HOME ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SERV AGENCY ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN AREA GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE in Lancaster Inc ↗
- Who funds Fish Samaritan House ↗
- Who funds BUTLER INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds BONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS 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: True Homes Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Brotherhood Foundation 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.
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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.