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Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc

$2k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.

Arts & Culture$64kHealth$2kEducation$2kPhilanthropy$1kReligion$750Other$0
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNTITLED THEATRE COMPANY NO 61$1,500
02The need
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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 US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($69k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($10k) is mapped below.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENT: $500 → 16%20 THEATRE CO TWIN CITIES: $500 → 11%SFFILM: $500 → 10%DIVERSIONARY THEATRE: $2k → 11%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATI: $2k → 14%TOSOS: $3k → 13%CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: $1k → 16%TRUTH AID: $2k → 16%THE MACDOWELL COLONY: $5k → 17%OPEN MEADOWS FOUNDATION: $1k → 20%WOMEN AND THEATRE PROGRAM: $2k → 6%THE LIVING CHURCH AT WOODLAWN POINT: $750 → 16%ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS: $500 → 21%JACK RUSHEN: $500 → 9%PLAN-B THEATRE: $2k → 8%HARRINGTON ARTS ALLIANCE: $500 → 11%COLUMBIA COLLEGE CHICAGO: $2k → 14%ZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATRE: $2k → 10%IRON CROW THEATRE: $500 → 19%SFFILM: $500 → 10%DIVERSIONARY THEATRE: $750 → 11%OPEN FIST THEATRE: $2k → 14%RAQUEL ALMAZAN: $2k → 13%CIVIC EMSEMBLE: $2k → 16%TOSOS: $500 → 17%ANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE: $2k → 20%PLAN B THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 8%ABOUT FACE THEATRE: $2k → 14%IRON CROW THEATRE: $500 → 19%DIVERSIONARY THEATRE: $500 → 11%HUMAN RESOURCES LA INC: $500 → 14%THE TANK: $2k → 17%REDISCOVER THEATRE: $500 → 14%MARK SALTZMAN: $500 → 14%THIRD WORLD NEWSREEL: $500 → 17%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 14%THE FIELD: $1k → 17%THE FILM COLLABORATIVE: $2k → 14%THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY: $2k → 17%LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FRACTURED ATLAS: $3k → 17%THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY: $500 → 17%WOMEN MAKE MOVIES: $2k → 17%UNTITLED THEATRE COMPANY NO 61: $2k → 17%THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY: $500 → 17%THE MOVEMENT THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 17%PARTICIPANT INC: $2k → 17%THE COLLECTIVE NY: $750 → 17%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

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TX

Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($10k)

3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$7k · 4 grants
Canada$2k · 1 grant
Australia$2k · 1 grant

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15k · 6 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +208% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
47

Total granted

$15k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+208%
+78%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther

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

  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +325%
  • IC
    IRON CROW THEATRE COMPANY INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +208%
  • SF
    San Francisco Film Society
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • LL
    LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +105%
  • MA
    MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +118%
  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +57%

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.

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Uprising Theater
Arts & Culture
2
Artists Repertory Theatre

Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.

Arts & Culture
3
Staretthe Directors Company Inc

The Directors Company is an award-winning not-for-profit theatre company with an extraordinary record in its mission to develop and produce groundbreaking new plays and musicals initiated and generated by outstanding directorial talent,…

Arts & Culture
4
En Garde Arts Inc

To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…

Arts & Culture
5
Ghost Road Company

The Ghost Road Company develops original performance pieces employing Ensemble-Devising and collaborative creation techniques creating experimental theatrical works that are highly physical visceral and visual The companys work emphasizes…

Arts & Culture
6
The Center for International Theatre Development
Arts & Culture
7
On the Boards

On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.

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8
Open Fist Theatre Company

Open Fist Theatre Company is a self-governing community of theatre artists who believe in the transformative imperative of inclusive and collaborative theatre. Dedicated to expanding social awareness through art, we seek, through diverse…

Arts & Culture
9
Lively Productions

Lively productions presents new work for the stage by emerging artists, and seeks to create innovative theatrical opportunities in a world increasingly defined by real time interactions and new technologies

Arts & Culture
10
The Actors Company Theatre Inc

The Actors Company Theatre is dedicated to presenting neglected or rarely produced plays of literary merit, with a focus on creating theatre from its essence: the text and the actor's ability to bring it to life. Over the past eighteen…

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11
Jabberwocky Theatre Company

Rogue Machine Theatre was founded in 2008 as a performing arts organization to serve the greater Los Angeles community in developing and nurturing emerging playwrights, introducing important contemporary works to Southern California and…

Arts & Culture
12
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Inc

To create rousing, visceral, enlightening theatre experiences that galvanize diverse artists and audiences to engage with our world in unexpected and often challenging ways.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camera News Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Meadows Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%11%35–55yr16%16%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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%1/27
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,538

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

27 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. 27 of the 54 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC — $5,000 · OtherMARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INCTOSOS — $3,500 · OtherTOSOSIndividual grant recipient — $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDIVERSIONARY THEATRE — $2,750 · OtherDIVERSIONARY THEATRETHEATER FOR THE NEW CITY — $2,500 · OtherTHEATER FOR THE NEW CITYOPEN FIST THEATRE — $2,000 · Other+27 more — $26,950 · Other+27 moreLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATIONTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $4,500 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $3,385 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCTHE MOVEMENT THEATRE COMPANY INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureAbout Face Theatre Collective Inc — $1,500 · Arts & CultureUntitled Theatre Company No 61 Ltd — $1,500 · Arts & CulturePLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY — $1,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TANK LTD — $1,500 · Arts & CulturePARTICIPANT INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER — $1,500 · Arts & CultureANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureIRON CROW THEATRE COMPANY INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreColumbia College Chicago — $1,500 · EducationTruthAids dba Truth Aid — $1,500 · HealthOPEN MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$45,700Arts & Culture$29,885Education$1,500Health$1,500Philanthropy$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $3,385 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbout Face Theatre Collective Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUntitled Theatre Company No 61 Ltd — $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTruthAids dba Truth Aid — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TANK LTD — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCIVIC ENSEMBLE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPARTICIPANT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS — $750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT ROSE PRODUCTIONS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RESOURCES LA INC HRLA — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUBIN PICTURES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $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.

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.

The Ford FoundationThe Andrew W Mellon F…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationNetwork for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ford FoundationNY17.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 54 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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