· Private foundation
Brown Assistance Fund Trust
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SPOKANE | $2,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC | $1,000 |
| LILAC SERVICES FOR THE BLIND | $1,000 |
| OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SPOKANE HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DANE | $1,000 |
| SECOND BAPTIST SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL INC | $1,000 |
| COEUR D' ALENE SUMMER THEATRE | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS SPOKANE VALLEY | $1,000 |
| THE ARTISANS ARK | $1,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO LIGHTHOUSE | $1,000 |
| LINACRE INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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 +40% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- NCNehemiah Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +10%
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +41%
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- FFFOUNDATION FOR TEEN HEALTHgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +31%
- P(PRES (PRESBYTERIAN) HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $1k
- BCBaylor College of Medicinegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +32%
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.
Economic and community development through sport tourism. bid to host and create major sporting events, and facility consultation and optimization.
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
To make known the gifts of people with development disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships, to foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of members while being faithful to the core…
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…
Seattle children's healthcare system (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Skils'kin and the most unlike its peers is Carrousel Players of the Coeur D'alene Summer Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 62 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 Nehemiah Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LILAC SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Spokane Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Spokane Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ARTISANS' ARK ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CARROUSEL PLAYERS OF THE COEUR D'ALENE SUMMER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds ADVENT EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SPOKANE ↗
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: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Brown Assistance Fund Trust 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.