· Private foundation
Anne Brown Koons Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Anne Brown Koons Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Palm Beach County Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Anne Brown Koons Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $111k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE COOPER FOUNDATION | $59,000 |
| THE STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CITY OF VINELAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| CAMDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY | $2,500 |
| JEWISH EDUCATORS ASSEMBLY | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB - CAMDEN COUNTY | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TCTHE COOPER FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2023 · $282k · revenue +8%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +66%
- FIFOUNDATIONS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- CCCAMDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +41%
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.
Advancement of the Jewish Community
The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…
The foundation is organized to promote philanthropy and to further the charitable needs of the jewish community, other charitable institutions, and community organizations.
To mobilize the jewish community to address issues, meet needs, and build an agenda for the future.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The mission of the commission for jewish education is to build a strong foundation of quality jewish education for all jews in our regional community; to educate the community in the history, language, tradition and literature of the…
To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…
Joseph & Florence Mandel Jewish Day School develops ethical leadership, confident critical thinking, and a lifelong love of learning. By integrating superior general academics and Judaic studies, "Mandel JDS" achieves academic excellence…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STOCKTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds CITY OF VINELAND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds CAMDEN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATORS ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds KELLMAN BROWN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAMDEN COUNTY 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.
Open a dossier: Jeffrey and Tracy Brown Foundation · Ravitz Family Foundation · Marvin Samson Foundation · Sidney and Sandy Brown Foundation Inc · Kenneth and Loretta Schatz Foundation · The Manny and Ruthy Cohen Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Anne Brown Koons 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.
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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