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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.

$533k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$480k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.5MEducation$520kCrime & Legal$48kReligion$46kHuman Services$39kYouth Development$33kEnvironment$33kPhilanthropy$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $500
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
  • $250k+1 grant · $480k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$480,000
NEW ORLEANS CATHOLIC CEMETERIES$12,320
THE WELLNESS COUNCIL OF GREATER COLORADO VALLEY$10,000
TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
COLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST$10,000
FAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
ROCK ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FRIENDS OF SCOTLAND INC: $5k → 11%JOHN RITTER FUNDATION: $10k → 14%CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND: $12k → 8%COLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST: $10k → 10%TURTLE WING FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CHAMPION VALLEY: $10k → 15%LEGACY RANCH KIDS: $10k → 15%GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO: $25k → 16%MAKE A WISH ALABAMA: $10k → 16%PASTOR'S ARMY: $33k → 16%NEW ORLEANS CATHOLIC CEMETERIES: $12k → 23%CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND: $12k → 8%COLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST: $10k → 10%FAYETTEVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 11%CLUB LIFE CHARITIES: $5k → 14%ROCK ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 → 15%GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $600 → 16%MAKE A WISH ALABAMA: $5k → 16%HL BOURGEOIS HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 16%CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND: $10k → 8%COLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST: $3k → 10%ARTS FOR RURAL TEXAS: $1k → 11%THE WELLNESS COUNCIL OF GREATER COLORADO VALLEY: $10k → 15%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $480k → 16%CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND: $2k → 8%THE WELLNESS COUNCIL OF GREATER COLORADO VALLEY: $10k → 15%MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $425k → 16%CHILD ADVOCATES OF FORT BEND: $2k → 8%COLORADO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: $10k → 15%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON: $2k → 16%CHPT (OPERA HOUSE DONATION): $5k → 8%BOYS GIRLS CLUB: $9k → 15%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE HOUSTON: $1k → 16%ST LAURENCE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $5k → 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $8k → 15%THE DEACONS OF DEADWOOD MOTORCYCLE CLUB: $8k → 16%CLEMENTS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $500 → 8%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $7k → 15%THE MONARCH SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE: $5k → 16%CLEMENTS ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB: $500 → 8%DONATIONS FOR TEXANS TAILGATE: $5k → 15%HOUSTON FOOD BANK: $500 → 16%HARMON FAMILY FOUNDATION: $300 → 8%HOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $500k → 16%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.
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 9 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
21

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+22%

Still filing today

44%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureOther
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

  • CR
    COLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $23k · revenue +396%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA
    2× · 2018–2021 · $15k · revenue +81%
  • RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $400k
  • UO
    UNIV OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CE
    one grant, 2019 · $138k
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
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
2
Greater Texas Foundation
Education
3
Texas Prairieland Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Fort Worth Community Land Trust

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Heb Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust
Philanthropy
6
Texans for Lawsuit Reform Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Texas Water Foundation

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…

Environment
8
The Children's Fund Inc

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…

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9
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
10
The Good Foundation of Texas
Philanthropy
11
Texas Trust Gives
Philanthropy
12
Texas Bankers Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Houston Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 35 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $905,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERHOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherHOUSTON CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $400,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERUNIV OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CE: $138,000 · OtherUNIV OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CE+21 more: $174,270 · Other+21 moreFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $38,000 · Civil RightsPASTORS ARMY: $33,200 · Public Safety & Disaster+1 more: $500 · Public Safety & DisasterCOLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $23,420 · EnvironmentPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $10,000 · EnvironmentGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,600 · PhilanthropyMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $15,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $3,000 · HealthTurtle Wing Foundation: $10,000 · EducationART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,117,270Civil Rights$38,000Public Safety & Disaster$33,700Environment$33,420Philanthropy$25,600Health$18,000Education$10,000Arts & Culture$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 budgetFt Bend County Child Advocates Inc: $38,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT BEND CARES FOUNDATION: $23,700 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCOLORADO RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $23,420 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTurtle Wing Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPARKS AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF TEXAS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetART GUILD OF FAYETTEVILLE TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARMON FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA THE CLAUDE HARMON FOUNDATION): $300 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds ROCK ISLAND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds HARMON FAMILY FOUNDATION (FKA THE CLAUDE HARMON FOUNDATION) ↗

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.

Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Billy Brown Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Billy Brown Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 35 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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