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The Bryan Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Religion$303kPublic Benefit$30kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$6kCrime & Legal$4kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$2kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$524k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH$11,400
OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH$10,900
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$7,700
VICKSBURG CATHOLIC FOUNDATION$6,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$5,000
PRIESTS RETIREMENT FUND$2,500
WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC$2,000
FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF OUR LADY$1,000
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK$600
THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM$500
CHRIST THE KING CATHOLIC CHURCH$500
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$500
VOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$400
LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$400
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$300
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $600 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $2k → 19%WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC: $2k → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $500 → 19%THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM: $500 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
LA
MS
TX
FL

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$357k · 26 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
16

Total granted

$357k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-16%

Still filing today

31%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationOther

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

  • GB
    GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK
    5× · 2019–2024 · $5k · revenue +73%
  • MS
    MORNING STAR RISING
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • SE
    SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SH
    ST HELENA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • HL
    HURRICANE LAURA DISASTER RELIEF - UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

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.

1
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
2
Rebuilding Together New Orleans

Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.

Philanthropy
3
Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

To provide love, care, and a positive christian witness for children and families in need.

4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Swla Inc

To provide children in Southwest Louisiana facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.

5
Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center

To offer prevention, intervention and postvention services that provide support in times of crisis and reduce the impact of suicide, homicide and violence.

Health
6
New Orleans Family Justice Alliance

The organization is a partnership of agencies dedicated to ending family violence, child abuse, sexual assault, and stalking through prevention and coordinated response by providing comprehensive client-centered, empowerment services in a…

Human Services
7
Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter
8
Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit
9
Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
10
Catholic Education Foundation Inc

The catholic education foundation is dedicated to the growth and vitality of catholic education in the archdiocese of louisville. the foundation advances its mission primarily through tuition assistance grants to families who cannot afford…

Education
11
Junior League of Baton Rouge Inc

The Junior League of Baton Rouge, Inc. is an organization of women committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its…

Community Improvement
12
Baton Rouge Early Childhood Education Collaborative Inc

To facilitate the collaboration of organizations to provide early childhood education and support to families and caregivers of under-resourced children, in preparing them for kindergarten

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH — $121,975 · OtherSACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCHOUR LADY OF MERCY CATHOLIC CHURCH — $83,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF MERCY CATHOLIC CHURCHST VINCENT DE PAUL — $45,550 · OtherST VINCENT DE PAULVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA — $30,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA+30 more — $82,224 · Other+30 moreMORNING STAR RISING — $4,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $1,600 · Human ServicesTHE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM — $1,000 · Human ServicesSAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $3,400 · HealthO'BRIEN HOUSE INC — $500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $400 · HealthOur Lady of the Lake Foundation — $200 · HealthCATHOLIC COMMUNITY RADIO INC — $1,500 · ReligionFoundation for East Baton Rouge School System — $500 · Education
Other$362,749Human Services$6,600Health$4,500Religion$1,500Education$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK — $4,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMORNING STAR RISING — $4,000 over 2y, 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 budgetFoundation for East Baton Rouge School System — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetO'BRIEN HOUSE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK
  • Who funds MORNING STAR RISING
  • Who funds SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Louisiana Inc
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY RADIO INC
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  • Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE LOUISIANA
  • Who funds THE LIFE OF A SINGLE MOM
  • Who funds Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System
  • Who funds O'BRIEN HOUSE INC
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS
  • Who funds Our Lady of the Lake 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.

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

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 Bryan 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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