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Brown 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT ST MARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MONSIGNOR ALLEN TRUST AND DEV FUND | $10,000 |
| HOLY SOULS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $6,000 |
| HOLY SOULS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $2,500 |
| NATURAL STATE COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| ACCESS ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY | $2,000 |
| METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH AR | $2,000 |
| CHS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
| LIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +52%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +6%
- LOLIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SASCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -18%
- OLOUR LADY OF HOLY SOULS SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
To ensure a thriving future for arkansas wildlife. the organization serves as an independent voice for all species of arkansas wildlife, a reliable source of factual information, and an inclusive partner toward the conservation and…
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
To preserve and enhance quality of life for all people in northwest arkansas through the permanent protection of land.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
To provide services to low income individuals.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
Fund raising and agency allocations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arkansas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Austin Foundation for Architecture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 113 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 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ROCK GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WOLFE STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PULASKI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL STATE COUNCIL ↗
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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · St Vincent Infirmary Medical Center · The Hussman Foundation · Landers Family Charitable Foundation · Clarence E Anthony Charitable Trust · Lpr Foundation · Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust · Rebsamen 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 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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