Louisiana · Private foundation
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
- 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.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $36k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $50k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $45k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $50k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $65k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $54k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $61k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church | $88,100 | 6 | n/a |
| Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank | $5,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Morning Star Rising | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christ the King Catholic Church | $4,750 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Elizabeth Foundation | $3,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc | $2,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Community Radio Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Baton Rouge Right to Life Inc | $1,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Volunteers in Public Schools | $1,300 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church | $88,100 | 6 | n/a |
| Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank | $5,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Morning Star Rising | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Christ the King Catholic Church | $4,750 | 4 | n/a |
| Saint Elizabeth Foundation | $3,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc | $2,100 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $1,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Community Radio Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Baton Rouge Right to Life Inc | $1,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Volunteers in Public Schools | $1,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Life of a Single Mom | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| O'Brien House Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Bvm | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of Eucharist | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $400 | 1 | 0% |
| Hope Ignites New Orleans | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Lady of the Lake Foundation | $200 | 1 | n/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.
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How this is measured
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.
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
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.
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