· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| NORTHWEST CHOIRS | $1,000 |
| MOUNTAIN SEED FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE ONE HUNDRED CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- CICHEBEAGUE ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION3× · 2022–2024 · $111k · revenue +108% · 64% of their budget
- ICINDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +134%
- SBSONGS BY HEART FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2022 · $10k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPHCANDLER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $4k
RAZOM INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -65%
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
To provide reliable and safe transportation to chebeague island, me.
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…
We conserve land permanently to benefit the natural and human communities of western the Penobscot Bay region.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
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.
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…
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 55 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 CHEBEAGUE ISLAND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE RECOMPENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT COUNCIL ON WOMENS SPORTS ↗
- Who funds SONGS BY HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Chebeague & Cumberland Land Trust ↗
- Who funds George Pocock Rowing Foundation ↗
- Who funds HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONADNOCK CHORUS ↗
- Who funds Chebeague Island Fire & Rescue Assn ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING SERVICES AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ROWING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN'S 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.
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
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 R & R Harper Brown Fdn 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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