How much did The Brotherton Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of The Brotherton Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

medicalresearcheducationchildren's

2020

medicalchildren's

2021

medicalchildren's

2022

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2023

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2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $14k
$10k–50k7 grants · $113k
$50k–250k2 grants · $100k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

Prisma Cancer Center-Dr Larry Gluck$50,000
Pickens County YMCA$50,000
FAVOR-Pickens County$37,500
Niswonger Foundation$20,000
SC Ovarian Cancer Foundation$15,000
United Way of Pickens County$10,000
Christ Church Episcopal School$10,000
Channel Missions$10,000
The Chandler School$10,000
Pickens County Cancer Foundation$5,000
Greene LEAF$5,000
Metropolitan Arts Council$2,000
Legacy Advancement$1,000
Wake Forest University$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 21 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+102%

Still filing today

52%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

PC
Pickens County YMCA
4× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +90%
NF
Niswonger Foundation
4× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +297%
UW
United Way of Pickens County
6× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +10%

Funded once

CS
CANCER SURVIVOR'S PARK ALLIANCE
one grant, 2017 · $35k
BE
BAPTIST EASLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $25k
PH
PRISMA HEALTH (PULS RESEARCH PROJECT)
one grant, 2019 · $25k

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

04Your field

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.

Greenville College

To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.

Education

Richard Winn Academy

To provide a superior education for prekindergarten through twelfth grade students in a safe, well-disciplined and nurturing environment. this mission has remained constant throughout the 50 plus year history of the school. founders…

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Carolina International School

A charter school whose mission is to nurture students' natural curiosity and joy of learning while students achieve academic excellence through a challenging, interdisciplinary, international curriculum. the students, parents and staff…

Education

Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education

Ambleside School

Ambleside school is a christ-centered school committed to providing a charlotte mason "living education." in partnership with the family, the school guides and empowers each student to think with the mind of christ and to author a life…

Education

Center for Christianity and Scholarship

Equip students and faculty to engage the university and the world with christian understanding.

Religion

Carson-Newman University

Mission of challenge, nurture, community: carson-newman college offers a christian, liberal arts education in an environment that encourages open intellectual inquiry and deeper spiritual maturity. students receive a personalized education…

Education

Columbia Christian Schools

To provide a christ centered education focused on excellence in faith, character and academics.

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North Cobb Christian School Inc

North cobb christian school was founded in 1983 by four families. today the school is an independent, coeducational nondenominational college preparatory school, governed by a school board elected from among the school families. a 100,000…

Education

Hunter Classical Christian School

Challenge the mind. nourish the spirit. develop the whole child.

Education

Wingate University

A comprehensive educational institution offering baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees.

Education

North Carolina State University

Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Pickens County and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/15

Grantees still filing

12/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$877,750Education$386,800Human Services$57,500Religion$10,000

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.

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.

Dabo's All in Team FoundationSC18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Nalley Charitable Trust · AWT Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation The Brotherton 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: United Way of Pickens County.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 570476249 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on United Way of Pickens County, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Brotherton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Brotherton Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Brotherton Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brotherton Foundation?

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The Brotherton Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brotherton Foundation?

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