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.

The Bryan Foundation

The Bryan Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bryan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$21k

Largest

01What it funds

0190% 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

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $15k
$10k–50k1 grant · $21k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$597k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH	$20,800
OUR LADY OF MERCY CHURCH	$5,100
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA	$5,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL	$3,500
WOMAN'S NEW LIFE CLINIC	$1,000
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$393k · 26 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -7% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$393k

$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

-7%

Still filing today

31%

29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

GB
GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK
6× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +73%
MS
MORNING STAR RISING
3× · 2023–2025 · $5k · 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
BR
BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK
one grant, 2018 · $1k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Bridge Center for Hope

The mission of the Bridge Center is to provide pathways to treatment for people experiencing behavioral health issues and to link providers to create an integrated continuum of care from prevention to rehabilitation.

Health

Crossroads

Crossroads connects children in crisis to the families, individuals, and opportunities they need to thrive primarily through the recruitment, development, and support of foster families in Louisiana.

Housing & Shelter

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

Louisiana Baptist Childrens Home and Family Ministries

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

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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

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.

—

Hope Ministries of Baton Rouge

Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.

Housing & Shelter

Louisiana Cancer Research Center of Lsuhsc-NOTulane Hsc

To develop a coordinated cancer research and educational program that will optimize discovery and development of innovative cancer therapies; lead to innovative clinial treatment programs offering new opportunities for early detection,…

Health

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

United Way of Southwest Louisiana Inc

To unite our community by funding programs in the areas of education, income and health. Our goal is to create long-lasting change that prevents problems from happening in the first place. Our community is the 5 parish area of Allen,…

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Luke's House- a Clinic for Healing and Hope

Luke's house provides medical and spiritual hope, health, and healing to greater new orleans residents, creates patient-centered experiences for students, and connects patients to long-term healthcare solutions.

Health

University of New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation Inc

-To support any and all programs, facilities, research, and educational opportunities offered by the University of New Orleans and the University of Louisiana System.-To encourage teaching, research, scholarship, and services, and increase…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

8/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$397,649Human Services$7,600Health$4,500Religion$1,500Education$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bryan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bryan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home