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Brown Family 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
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO RAY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM INC | $60,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| KIPP BALTIMORE | $30,000 |
| VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC | $15,000 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| HEALTHY PENINSULA | $14,000 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GREEN SPRING VALLEY GARDEN CLUB | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND SPCA | $10,000 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| B MORE CLUBHOUSE INC | $8,000 |
| AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM | $8,000 |
| LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- FFFIRST FRUITS FARM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +68%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +53%- KBKIPP BALTIMORE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +21%
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE - KIMMEL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TOTREE OF LIFE FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
For the benefit of the citizens of md to enhance their knowledge and appreciation for agricultural businesses. to educate and assist farmers in developing agricultural operations that are viable and environmentally sustainable.
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The baltimore county farm bureau is a grass roots, non-governmental, voluntary associaton whose mission is to promote and protect maryland agriculture and rural life.
To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.
Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forever Maryland Inc and the most unlike its peers is B'more Clubhouse 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 36 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 47 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 FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN SPRING VALLEY GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOXIE G FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds FOREVER MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust
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 Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- First Fruits Farm Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc — 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.
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