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The Bwbr Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$64k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$133kEducation$123kArts & Culture$43kHuman Services$21kFood & Nutrition$18kPhilanthropy$14kEnvironment$7kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$913k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANVAS HEALTH INC$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION$2,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$1,500
HEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC$1,167
SAINTS FOUNDATION$1,000
SAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION$1,000
SAINT CATHERINE'S UNIVERSITY$1,000
MINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION$1,000
BOYS TOWN FOUNDATION$1,000
WISCONSIN ARCHITECTS FOUNDATION$1,000
NAMI NEBRASKA$1,000
MERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC$1,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS$1,000
MERITER FOUNDATION$1,000
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $4k → 6%BREAKTHROUGH MINISTRIES: $500 → 6%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%PINE REST FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%RICHLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $700 → 12%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $2k → 6%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $2k → 6%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $1k → 6%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $1k → 6%CANVAS HEALTH INC: $1k → 6%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $1k → 14%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC: $1k → 14%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 14%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC: $1k → 10%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $1k → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $850 → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $850 → 11%THE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $850 → 11%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

WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
SD
IA
NE
DC
LA

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$328k · 69 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

69 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
23

Total granted

$328k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+8%

Still filing today

83%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +105%
  • CH
    CANVAS HEALTH INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $11k · revenue +90%
  • HH
    HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +227%

Funded once

  • AM
    AIA MINNESOTA - WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • AM
    AIA MINNESOTA - WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT-2019
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • TA
    THE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $2k

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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
4
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
5
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
6
Trinity Health & Affiliates

Trinity health is committed to preserving and improving the quality of health of the people we serve. our mission is to excel at meeting the needs of the whole person through the provision of quality health care and health related services.

Health
7
Advantage Healthsaint Mary's Medical Group

We, advantage health/saint mary's medical group and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.advantage health/saint mary's medical group…

Health
8
Essentia Health

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

Health
9
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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10
Essentia Institute of Rural Health

We are called to make a healthy difference in people's lives.

Health
11
Nebraska Medicine

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for individuals and committees through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
12
Mercy Health Partners

We, mercy health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.mercy health partners is a member of mercy health and trinity health.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Construc…Community Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Food Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%5%<5yr12%4%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr16%27%35–55yr18%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%3%<5yr12%2%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%10%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr18%62%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/85
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,904

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

83 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 111 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/83
Grantees still filing
52/83
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION — $19,000 · OtherMINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATIONAIA MINNESOTA — $11,000 · OtherAIA MINNESOTAFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherFAIRVIEW HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND — $8,000 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDAVERA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY — $6,200 · Other+44 more — $74,164 · Other+44 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $15,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIO…UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL — $8,200 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST P…METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,700 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOU…Buena Vista University — $7,700 · EducationBuena Vista UniversityCORNELL COLLEGE — $7,700 · EducationCORNELL COLLEGECARLETON COLLEGE — $7,700 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGECARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $7,700 · EducationCARROLL UNIVERSITY INCGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $7,200 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGEAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $6,700 · EducationAUGSBURG UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $5,700 · EducationBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $5,700 · EducationCLIMATE GENERATION — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS FOUNDATION INC — $4,700 · EducationTHE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $4,700 · EducationUniversity of St Thomas — $4,200 · Education+4 more — $7,100 · Education+4 moreHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $11,000 · HealthHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUN…REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $8,000 · HealthREGIONS HOSPITAL FOU…NAMI DANE COUNTY INC — $5,500 · HealthNAMI DANE COUNTY INCMonument Health Network Inc — $5,000 · HealthMonument Health Netw…MAYO CLINIC — $5,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICFairview Foundation — $4,000 · HealthFairview FoundationPRAIRIE LAKES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · HealthPRAIRIE LAKES HEALTH…Northfield Hospital Foundation — $3,000 · HealthSAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Health+13 more — $20,500 · Health+13 moreCANVAS HEALTH INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesCANVAS HEAL…MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES — $9,000 · Human ServicesMERRICK COM…WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesWAYFORWARD …The Family Partnership — $5,550 · Human ServicesThe Family …PINE REST FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Human ServicesPINE REST F…UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC — $2,000 · Human Services+3 more — $2,200 · Human Services+3 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $6,000 · PhilanthropyMERITER FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · PhilanthropyAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS — $1,000 · PhilanthropyMERCYHEALTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyST ELIZABETHS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyPUBLIC ART SAINT PAUL — $2,000 · Arts & CultureThe Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society — $1,000 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA — $1,000 · Arts & CultureART FROM THE INSIDE — $500 · Arts & CultureLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC — $3,500 · Employment
Other$135,364Education$112,900Health$69,000Human Services$39,750Philanthropy$18,500Arts & Culture$4,500Employment$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $15,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANVAS HEALTH INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAIA MINNESOTA — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES — $9,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL — $8,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBuena Vista University — $7,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCORNELL COLLEGE — $7,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $7,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC — $7,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE — $7,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY — $6,700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY — $6,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA — $5,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY — $5,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Partnership — $5,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMERITER FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI DANE COUNTY INC — $5,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCLIMATE GENERATION — $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMonument Health Network Inc — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS FOUNDATION INC — $4,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $4,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $4,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFairview Foundation — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE REST FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE LAKES HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWISCONSIN ARCHITECTS FOUNDATIONINC — $3,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF DANE COUNTY INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC — $2,914 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE — $2,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEVIEW HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEVIEW MEDICAL CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGillette Children's Hospital Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFroedtert Hospital Foundation Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRACARE HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 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 MINNESOTA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANVAS HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds AIA MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MERRICK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds REGIONS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Buena Vista University ↗
  • Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE HAMLINE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Family Partnership ↗
  • Who funds MERITER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI DANE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE GENERATION ↗
  • Who funds Monument Health Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - RIVER FALLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UW-PLATTEVILLE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds Fairview Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE REST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE LAKES HEALTHCARE 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.

Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Minneapolis Found…Fred C and Katherine …The Richard M Schulze…Hardenbergh FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationAndersen Corporate Fo…CommunitygivingNicholson Family Foun…The American Center f…
Otto Bremer TrustMN38.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Andersen Corporate Foundation · Communitygiving · Nicholson Family Foundation · The American Center for Philanthropy Inc

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 Bwbr 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Bwbr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Bwbr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 111 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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