· Private foundation
Billy Brown Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
- $250k+1 grant · $480k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $480,000 |
| NEW ORLEANS CATHOLIC CEMETERIES | $12,320 |
| FAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE WELLNESS COUNCIL OF GREATER COLORADO VALLEY | $10,000 |
| COLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| ROCK ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of your 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.
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 +81% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- CRCOLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST INC3× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +396%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +81%
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- HCHOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $500k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $400k
- UOUNIV OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CEone grant, 2019 · $138k
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.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
The Fort Worth Community Land Trust (FWCLT) was created to provide relief to the poor and distressed and combat community deterioration. Specifically, FWCLT will create, steward and preserve a permanent supply of safe, secure, and…
Texas water foundation is a statewide nonprofit that provides educational resources and educational services on water in texas for decision makers, water professionals, and everyday texans. texas water foundation works in the areas of…
The children's fund, inc. is organized and operated to support all types of organizations formed to provide medical and social care for the needy and deserving children in the greater houston metropolitan area. recipient organizations are…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pastors Army. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 35 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.
- Who funds Ft Bend County Child Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds PASTORS ARMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND CARES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA ↗
- Who funds Turtle Wing Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS ↗
- Who funds ROCK ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds HARMON FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA THE CLAUDE HARMON FOUNDATION) ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Billy Brown Charitable Foundation 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.