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The Bryan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
6%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,800
Organizations funded a year
12 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$597k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Bryan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$36k0%
FY202416$50k6%
FY202316$45k25%
FY202218$50k44%
FY202117$65k24%
FY202012$54k33%
FY201914$61k43%
FY201816$51kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$303kPublic Benefit$30kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$6kCrime & Legal$4kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$2kEducation$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
LA
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church$88,1006n/a
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank$5,40060%
Morning Star Rising$5,00030%
Christ the King Catholic Church$4,7504n/a
Saint Elizabeth Foundation$3,40030%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc$2,10040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,60030%
Catholic Community Radio Inc$1,50030%
Baton Rouge Right to Life Inc$1,3002n/a
Volunteers in Public Schools$1,30040%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of The Bryan Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church$88,1006n/a
Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank$5,40060%
Morning Star Rising$5,00030%
Christ the King Catholic Church$4,7504n/a
Saint Elizabeth Foundation$3,40030%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc$2,10040%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,60030%
Catholic Community Radio Inc$1,50030%
Baton Rouge Right to Life Inc$1,3002n/a
Volunteers in Public Schools$1,30040%
Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana$1,00010%
The Life of a Single Mom$1,00020%
O'Brien House Inc$50010%
Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System$50010%
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Bvm$5001n/a
Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of Eucharist$5001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$40010%
Hope Ignites New Orleans$30010%
Our Lady of the Lake Foundation$2001n/a

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bryan Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Baton Rouge Food Bank: $5,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMorning Star Rising: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Elizabeth Foundation: $3,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc: $2,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Community Radio Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVolunteers in Public Schools: $1,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPrevent Child Abuse Louisiana: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Life of a Single Mom: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetO'Brien House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for East Baton Rouge School System: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Ignites New Orleans: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Albemarle FoundationNC25.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Albemarle Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · The Edward L Rispone Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Capital Area United Way · The Charles Lamar Family Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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.

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About The Bryan Foundation

How much does The Bryan Foundation give?
The Bryan Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $35,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Bryan Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (81%), Public Benefit (8%), Health (2%).
Who are The Bryan Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church ($88k), Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank ($5k), Morning Star Rising ($5k).
Does The Bryan Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bryan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bryan Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albemarle Foundation, Baton Rouge Area Foundation, The Edward L Rispone Family Foundation.
Where is The Bryan Foundation based?
The Bryan Foundation is based in LA.

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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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