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Brown Family Private Foundation
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 $10k20 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HYLA MIDDLE SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| EAGLE HARBOR CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $7,000 |
| BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,000 |
| FABRETTO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WORLD POSSIBLE | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY-SEAS | $5,000 |
| MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA | $5,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| ISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS | $4,500 |
| BAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS | $4,000 |
| HELPLINE HOUSE | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Brown Family Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- HMHyla Middle School7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +21%
- BIBAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +82%
- IVISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- CHCOMMON HOPEone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -11%
- BHBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BBBAINBRIDGE BOOSTER CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +72%
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.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.
The Bridge School is a cooperative, multi-age, progressive elementary school program that fosters authentic learning through whole child development.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.
Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.
BVGH drives sustainable, market-informed solutions to improve access to quality healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. BVGH builds cross-sector partnerships that align industry, government, and local health-system priorities to…
The primary goal is to help children & adults develop a commitment to lifelong learning & environmental and community stewardship through hands-on learning experiences combining science, technology, & the arts at islandwood's 255-acre…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is World Possible. 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 33 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.
30 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. 30 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 Hyla Middle School ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds WORLD POSSIBLE ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KITSAP IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMON HOPE ↗
- Who funds The LAM Foundation ↗
- Who funds FABRETTO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH KITSAP FISHLINE ↗
- Who funds Bainbridge Island Historical Society ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE ISLAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Bainbridge Youth Services ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds PUGET SOUND RESTORATION FUND ↗
- Who funds PANGEA GIVING ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BAINBRIDGE BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE 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: Bainbridge Community Foundation · One Call for All · Seattle Foundation · Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island Trust · Archarios Foundation · Kitsap Community Foundation · First Fed Foundation · Crabby Beach Foundation · Veterane Family Foundation · Clovis Foundation · Marks Family Foundation · Quail Roost 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 Brown Family Private 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.
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