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Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc

$2k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
100%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$1,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 31
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 100% of the organizations Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$2k100%
FY20198$5k38%
FY201822$26k86%
FY201731$48kn/a
85% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$64kHealth$2kEducation$2kPhilanthropy$1kReligion$750Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTruthAids dba Truth Aid: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAbout Face Theatre Collective Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Ensemble Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetParticipant Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Tank Ltd: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUntitled Theatre Company No 61 Ltd: $1,500 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPlan-B Theatre Company: $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 budgetAubin Pictures Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnique Projects Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Resources la Inc Hrla: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAllied Media Projects Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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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.

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

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.

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About Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc

How much does Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc give?
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $1,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (80%), Health (2%), Education (2%).
Who are Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc ($5k), Lambda Literary Foundation ($5k), The Film Collaborative Inc ($5k).
Does Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W Mellon Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc based?
Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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

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