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Bill C & Patricia P Brown Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$114kPhilanthropy$42kHuman Services$24kYouth Development$23kReligion$23kAnimals$16kHealth$9kInternational$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,125
Median grant
3
States reached
$542k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIANA UNIVERSITY$12,000
MIDDLE WAY HOUSE$4,500
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$4,500
HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$1,150
YOUTH FOR CHRIST SOUTHERN HILLS$1,125
MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY$1,125
BEHOLD AND BECOME$1,125
CARMEL DADS CLUB$1,000
HANDS OF HOPE$750
Individual grant recipient$750
INDIANA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$750
HAMILTON COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION$650
TOWNE MEADOW ELEMENTARY PTO$100
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WHEELER MISSION: $2k → 16%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 14%SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 14%PREVAIL INC: $2k → 5%MIDDLE WAY HOUSE: $1k → 18%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

IL
NY
IN
PA
CT
CO
MO
AZ
KS
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$254k · 21 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
52

Total granted

$254k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+1%

Still filing today

48%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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

  • MC
    MONROE COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +152%
  • CD
    CARMEL DADS CLUB INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +17%
  • CY
    CARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $5k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • WM
    WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -11%
  • NI
    Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -46%
  • DF
    DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLISgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +135%
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
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
3
Indiana Center for Prevention of Youth Abuse and Suicide

Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.

Youth Development
4
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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5
Indiana United Methodist Children's Home Inc

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…

Human Services
6
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
7
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
8
Indiana Legal Services Inc

The mission of ILS is to use the law to fight poverty and racism, empower clients, and improve access to justice.

Crime & Legal
9
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

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…

Health
10
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
11
Methodist Children's Home

Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.

Human Services
12
Alternatives Incorporated of Madison County

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Indianapolis; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
22/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Indiana University School of Medicine: $108,250 · OtherIndiana University School of MedicineCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTON: $41,900 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BLOOMINGTONMISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY: $9,188 · OtherHANDS OF HOPE: $8,275 · Other+48 more: $64,748 · Other+48 moreMIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $13,400 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $3,500 · Human ServicesWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $2,400 · Human ServicesNow I Lay Me Down to Sleep: $2,000 · Human ServicesPREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $1,500 · Human ServicesMONROE COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $13,425 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc: $750 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $750 · AnimalsIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $600 · Animals+1 more: $100 · AnimalsCARMEL DADS CLUB INC: $7,250 · Youth DevelopmentCARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $4,750 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $1,250 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH FOR CHRISTSOUTHERN HILLS INC: $1,125 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthINTERNATIONAL FOXP1 FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthNorth India Christian Mission Inc: $1,125 · HealthHOPE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,125 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc: $750 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 · HealthIndiana University Foundation: $4,050 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EducationBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $500 · Education+2 more: $200 · EducationCity Union Mission: $2,625 · Housing & Shelter
Other$232,361Human Services$22,800Animals$15,625Youth Development$14,375Health$6,500Education$5,750Housing & Shelter$2,625

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMONROE COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $13,425 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC: $13,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCARMEL DADS CLUB INC: $7,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC: $4,750 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $4,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA: $3,700 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Union Mission: $2,625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $2,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNow I Lay Me Down to Sleep: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOXP1 FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKEELER TAVERN: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetZIONSVILLE LIONS PARK INC: $1,425 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth India Christian Mission Inc: $1,125 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRISTSOUTHERN HILLS INC: $1,125 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $1,125 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALEO: $667 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIndianapolis Zoological Society Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSports Outreach International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTowne Meadow Elementary PTO: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUNDS OF SOUTH INC BLOOMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Society for Hamilton County: $100 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.

  • Who funds MONROE COUNTY HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE WAY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CARMEL DADS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds CARMEL YOUTH ASSISTANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA ↗
  • Who funds SAFE FAMILIES FOR CHILDREN ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds City Union Mission ↗
  • Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS FOOD BANK OF INDIANA INC ↗
  • Who funds Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep ↗
  • Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CHRISTIAN LEGAL CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INDIANAPOLIS CULTURAL TRAIL INC ↗
  • Who funds PREVAIL INC OF HAMILTON COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FOXP1 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KEELER TAVERN ↗
  • Who funds ZIONSVILLE LIONS PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds North India Christian Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTSOUTHERN HILLS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗

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.

Lilly Endowment IncMaurer Family Foundat…Central Indiana Commu…Samerian Foundation I…The Brave Heart Found…Hamilton County Commu…Nicholas H Noyes Jr M…United Way of Central…Lumina Foundation for…Eugene & Marilyn Glic…Nina Mason Pulliam Ch…Community Foundation …
Lilly Endowment IncIN26.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bill C & Patricia P Brown Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bill C & Patricia P Brown Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Bill C & Patricia P Brown Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 78 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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