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Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc

$2k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% 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
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNTITLED THEATRE COMPANY NO 61$1,500
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.

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.

show:

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

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
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +325% since the first grant, against +78% for those 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

+325%
+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
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

  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +325%
  • IC
    IRON CROW THEATRE COMPANY INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $1k · revenue +468%
  • SF
    San Francisco Film Society
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +33%

Funded once

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

—
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…

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camera News Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INCAbout Face Theatre Collective Inc: $1,500 · Arts & CultureANONYMOUS ENSEMBLE INC: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePARTICIPANT INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureZEIDERS AMERICAN DREAM THEATER: $1,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE TANK LTD: $1,500 · Arts & CultureUntitled Theatre Company No 61 Ltd: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePLAN-B THEATRE COMPANY: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MOVEMENT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureIRON CROW THEATRE COMPANY INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreTruthAids dba Truth Aid: $1,500 · HealthColumbia College Chicago: $1,500 · EducationOPEN MEADOWS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$45,700Arts & Culture$29,885Health$1,500Education$1,500Philanthropy$1,000

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

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
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.

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

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 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.

    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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