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Ann K & Doug S Brown Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$201k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Human Services$299kHealth$170kEducation$138kEnvironment$129kArts & Culture$126kCommunity Improvement$32kAnimals$22kReligion$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k50 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $126k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS$28,000
MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN$25,000
JUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATION$25,000
MALTZ JUPITER THEATER$20,000
HEALTHYME FORMERLY MY CLINIC$16,000
ARMORY ART CENTER$11,825
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$7,500
PEDAL THE CAUSE$5,500
STUDENT DIPLOMACY CORP$5,000
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY$5,000
STEVEN N FRANK FAMILY AWARD$5,000
JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL$3,000
LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY$2,500
MO BAPTIST MED CTR$2,500
ST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO$2,500
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 (FY20–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $250 → 13%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%KIDS IN DISTRESS: $250 → 13%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $500 → 17%CARING SOLUTIONS: $200 → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $6k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $6k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $1k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $500 → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $500 → 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

IL
WI
NY
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
DC
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$907k · 55 repeat orgs$92k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
42

Total granted

$907k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+24%

Still filing today

56%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • MB
    MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $127k · revenue +42%
  • TA
    THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $57k · revenue +29%
  • MJ
    MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CG
    CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • TR
    TOGETHER RISING
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -77%

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
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
2
The Saint Louis Zoo Association

The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…

Animals
3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

5
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

10
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
11
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Distress Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys Girls Club. 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 backsteadyChild & Family ServicesHealthcare System Support O…Animal Rescue and AdoptionEarly Childhood Education C…Disability Services Organiz…Private Grantmaking Foundat…South Florida Environmental…School Parent-Teacher Organ…Youth Sports ProgramsPerforming Arts EducationDiverse Community Organizat…Alternative K-12 Schools
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%47%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,503

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

58 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. 58 of the 117 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
37/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ADMIRALS COVE CARES — $291,600 · OtherADMIRALS COVE CARESJUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $27,250 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $25,000 · OtherSTUDENT DIPLOMACY CORP — $24,500 · OtherMO BAPTIST MED CTR — $22,500 · Other+83 more — $193,465 · Other+83 moreMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $126,500 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTAN…+1 more — $1,050 · EnvironmentTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC — $57,365 · Arts & CultureTHE ARMORY AR…MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $43,900 · Arts & CultureMALTZ JUPITER…CRAFT ALLIANCE — $8,540 · Arts & CultureCRAFT ALLIANC…+3 more — $5,050 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $40,000 · EducationST LOUIS UNI…JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $36,000 · EducationJOHN BURROUG…READY READERS — $7,500 · EducationREADY READER…Ladue Education Foundation — $7,000 · EducationLadue Educat…BIOSTL — $5,000 · EducationLOGOS INC — $4,000 · Education+5 more — $6,550 · Education+5 moreHABITAT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS — $32,000 · Community ImprovementDOGWOOD FARM SANCTUARY — $11,250 · AnimalsWAGS & WHISKERS — $4,500 · AnimalsTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC — $2,000 · Animals+2 more — $500 · AnimalsPEDAL THE CAUSE — $13,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 · Human Services+2 more — $700 · Human Services
Other$584,315Environment$127,550Arts & Culture$114,855Education$106,050Community Improvement$32,000Animals$18,250Human Services$17,700

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 budgetMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES — $126,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC — $57,365 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $43,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL — $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS — $32,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetPEDAL THE CAUSE — $13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOGWOOD FARM SANCTUARY — $11,250 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRAFT ALLIANCE — $8,540 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREADY READERS — $7,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLadue Education Foundation — $7,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTOGETHER RISING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIOSTL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE JAMAICA INC — $4,500 over 4y, 12% of budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAGS & WHISKERS — $4,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetLOGOS INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlive Inc — $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInnsbrook Historical Society — $2,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe New City School Inc — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUNGEVITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS IN THE KNOW — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC — $2,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONWAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO LEARNING INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of St Louis — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc — $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE KIDS OUTREACH INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARAQUAD INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUPITER TEQUESTA ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION I — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMyClinic Inc dba HealthyMe — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN DISTRESS INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $500 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 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
  • Who funds THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC
  • Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS
  • Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE
  • Who funds DOGWOOD FARM SANCTUARY
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
  • Who funds CRAFT ALLIANCE
  • Who funds READY READERS
  • Who funds Ladue Education Foundation
  • Who funds TOGETHER RISING
  • Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA
  • Who funds BIOSTL
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE JAMAICA INC
  • Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC
  • Who funds WAGS & WHISKERS
  • Who funds LOGOS INC
  • Who funds Alive Inc
  • Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO44.6× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Pott Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Pershing Charitable Trust · Youthbridge Community 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 Ann K & Doug S Brown Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc3% of income from government
  • The Armory Art Center Inc0% of income from government
  • Kids in Distress Inc0% of income from government
  • Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 117 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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