· Private foundation
Bill C & Patricia P Brown Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of BILL C & PATRICIA P BROWN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,500 |
| MIDDLE WAY HOUSE | $4,500 |
| HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $1,150 |
| MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY | $1,125 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST SOUTHERN HILLS | $1,125 |
| BEHOLD AND BECOME | $1,125 |
| CARMEL DADS CLUB | $1,000 |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $750 |
| HANDS OF HOPE | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750 |
| HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION | $650 |
| TOWNE MEADOW ELEMENTARY PTO | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +17% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- MCMONROE COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +86%
- CDCARMEL DADS CLUB INC5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +17%
- CYCARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +151%
Funded once
- WMWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -11%
- DFDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLISgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +135%
- NINow I Lay Me Down to Sleepone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -46%
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.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To meet the special needs of each child and family served in order to help improve their quality of life. the board of trustees and staff members of the home are committed to bringing the highest quality resources available to the…
Provide services in response to individual need
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of ILS is to use the law to fight poverty and racism, empower clients, and improve access to justice.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Alternatives incorporated strives to eradicate domestic and sexual violence through education, prevention, and intervention in central indiana. the organization exists to promote the right of all persons to live in a loving, caring, safe…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Indianapolis and the most unlike its peers is Hope Resource Center 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 78 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.
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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: Lilly Endowment Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Samerian Foundation Inc · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Bloomington and Monroe County 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 Bill C & Patricia P Brown Charitable 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.
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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