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Anne R & R Harper Brown Fdn

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.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$111kRecreation & Sports$45kArts & Culture$28kEducation$26kReligion$24kHuman Services$19kHealth$15kEnvironment$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEBEAGUE ISLAND RECREATION CENTER$9,000
CICA CHEBEAGUE ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$8,000
ICONS - INDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMEN'S SPORTS$5,000
THE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST$5,000
THE CHEBEAGUE FIRE AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION$3,380
COMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES AGENCY INC$3,000
ST JOSEPHSCANDLER FOUNDATIONS$2,500
GEORGE POCOCK FOUNDATION$2,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND (PPNNE)$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
THE ONE HUNDRED CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
NORTHWEST CHOIRS$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%THE ONE HUNDRED CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 16%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $5k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $5k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $5k → 7%THE RECOMPENSE FUND: $3k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
NV
NJ
RI
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$278k · 29 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
15

Total granted

$278k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+11%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationOther
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

  • CI
    CHEBEAGUE ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $111k · revenue +108% · 64% of their budget
  • IC
    INDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +125%
  • SB
    SONGS BY HEART FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $10k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SJ
    ST JOSEPHCANDLER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -65%
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.

1
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
2
Cape Cod & Islands Association of Realtors Inc

The purpose of the cape cod & islands association of realtors, inc. ("cc&iaor") is to unite and serve those involved in the real estate industry in our region and work in concert with the massachusetts association of realtors and the…

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3
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
4
Maine Media College

Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…

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5
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
6
Chebeague Transportation Co

To provide reliable and safe transportation to chebeague island, me.

Public Benefit
7
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
8
Coastal Mountains Land Trust

We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.

Environment
9
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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11
Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy
12
Maine Medical Association

To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

32 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. 32 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHEBEAGUE ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $110,500 · Community ImprovementCHEBEAGUE ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONBROWN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYCHEBEAGUE ISLAND RECREATION CENTER: $27,500 · OtherCHEBEAGUE ISLAND RECREATION CENTERTHE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST: $15,000 · OtherTHE CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF ST JOHN THE BAPTISTIndividual grant recipient: $13,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAKE FOREST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $8,200 · OtherLAKE FOREST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIONST JOSEPH'SCANDLER FOUNDATIONS: $7,500 · OtherChebeague & Cumberland Land Trust: $5,500 · OtherST JOSEPHCANDLER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation: $5,000 · Other+31 more: $53,580 · Other+31 moreTHE RECOMPENSE FUND: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSONGS BY HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,600 · HealthINDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS: $10,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,500 · EducationHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentMaine Island Trail Association: $2,500 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,800 · EnvironmentMONADNOCK CHORUS: $4,400 · Arts & CultureMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST CHOIRS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$121,500Other$140,780Human Services$20,000Health$13,600Education$12,500Environment$9,300Arts & Culture$7,900

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHEBEAGUE ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: $110,500 over 3y, 64% of budgetTHE RECOMPENSE FUND: $18,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSONGS BY HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetLAKE FOREST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $8,200 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetChebeague & Cumberland Land Trust: $5,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeorge Pocock Rowing Foundation: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMONADNOCK CHORUS: $4,400 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetChebeague Island Fire & Rescue Assn: $3,880 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES AGENCY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $2,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE PEACE CHORUS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST CHOIRS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LAKE COUNTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVALINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Raymond Family Founda…The Chicago Community…Vanguard Charitable E…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Raymond Family FoundationOR15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Anne R & R Harper Brown Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne R & R Harper Brown Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to Anne R & R Harper Brown Fdn 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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