· Private foundation
Alvin I and Peggy S Brown Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $780k
- $250k+2 grants · $705k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BLUE SKYE FOUNDATION | $375,000 |
| AHA LEARNING INC | $330,000 |
| TEACHERS COLLEGE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| REMY'S GOOD DAY FUND | $195,000 |
| MIDTOWN ARTS & DESIGN ALLIANCE LLC | $150,000 |
| THE STREET HOMELESS | $80,000 |
| NEW ENERGY ECONOMY | $55,000 |
| IN GOOD COMPANY | $50,000 |
| USA SHAOLIN TEMPLE | $50,000 |
| THE SOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY CHARITY SCHOOL | $44,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $40,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $25,000 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INST | $25,000 |
| RED CLOUD RENEWABLE | $22,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BSBLUE SKYE FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +84% · 70% of their budget
- USUSA SHAOLIN TEMPLE5× · 2021–2025 · $273k · revenue +10% · 30% of their budget
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $227k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- ECEPIC - COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $185k
- MCMendocino Coast Healthcare Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +419%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL FDN AND 3 HOone grant, 2023 · $140k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Defense Fund and the most unlike its peers is Remy's Good Day Fund. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
43 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. 43 of the 92 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 BLUE SKYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REMY'S GOOD DAY FUND ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds AHALEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO ALIVE ↗
- Who funds USA SHAOLIN TEMPLE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BRONX COMMUNITY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Coast Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COAST CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENERGY ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
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- Who funds Little Earth School Inc ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Marshall L and Perrine D McCune Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Alvin I and Peggy S Brown Family Charitable 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.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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