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Brown Foundation Inc

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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$403k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

International$1.6MCrime & Legal$825kEducation$748kReligion$345kArts & Culture$310kCommunity Improvement$300kHealth$294kHuman Services$229kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $273k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC$403,000
THE MARSHALL PROJECT$400,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL$265,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$100,000
HADAR INSTITUTE$100,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
PALM BEACH OPERA INC$45,000
TEMPLE EMETH - REFORM CONGREGATION$30,000
JDRF INTERNATIONAL$30,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$25,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC$25,000
ERIC BROWN FOUNDATION$25,000
PFLAG - NYC$25,000
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL$18,000
CATSKILL FOOD PANTRY INC$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $255k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES: $3k → 22%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%CATSKILL FOOD PANTRY INC: $15k → 11%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15k → 8%CATSKILL FOOD PANTRY INC: $10k → 11%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%PFLAG - NYC: $25k → 17%PFLAG - NYC: $25k → 17%PFLAG - NYC: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Brown Foundation Inc’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.

Brown Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 22 repeat orgs$394k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$4.0M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+16%

Still filing today

86%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $223k 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
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TM
    THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $825k · revenue +133%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP
    3× · 2017–2019 · $500k · revenue +49%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $350k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AF
    AVOTAYNU FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -34%
  • The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -61%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voter Registration Project and the most unlike its peers is Eric Brown Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyJewish Community FederationsClassical Music EnsemblesLgbtq+ Community CentersFood Pantries & AssistanceCommunity Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Cancer Support OrganizationsGovernment Accountability R…Asian American Advocacy & H…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%32%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%36%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,727

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.

05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP — $500,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUPHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $350,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $275,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL…AFS-USA INC — $100,000 · InternationalAFS-USA INCTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $825,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC1979 LEGACY CORP — $300,000 · Community Improvement1979 LEGACY CORPTEMPLE EMETH - REFORM CONGREGATION — $190,000 · OtherTEMPLE EMETH - REFOR…THE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION — $170,000 · OtherTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUN…HADAR INSTITUTE — $100,000 · OtherHADAR INSTITUTEAVOTAYNU FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherAVOTAYNU FOUNDATION …Individual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…ISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION (USA) CORP — $44,000 · OtherMARTHAS VINEYARD HEBREW CENTER — $35,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $70,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH T1D+13 more — $158,650 · Other+13 moreCornell University — $325,000 · EducationCornell Universit…HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $180,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE…BARD COLLEGE — $150,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGENEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $60,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSE…+2 more — $23,000 · EducationPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $403,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAE…MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesNew York City Parents of Lesbians and Gay Men Inc — $52,500 · Human ServicesCATSKILL FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $90,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH OPERA INC — $52,500 · Arts & CultureThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
International$1,225,000Community Improvement$1,125,000Other$867,650Education$738,000Philanthropy$403,000Human Services$255,000Arts & Culture$172,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC — $825,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP — $500,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $403,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $350,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCornell University — $325,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget1979 LEGACY CORP — $300,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAOZ-SEAL INC — $275,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $180,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $175,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARNOLD GOLD FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAFS-USA INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS COLE HISTORIC HOUSE — $90,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Parents of Lesbians and Gay Men Inc — $52,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPALM BEACH OPERA INC — $52,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetISRAEL CANCER ASSOCIATION (USA) CORP — $44,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATSKILL FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetERIC BROWN FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF BERGEN COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHACKENSACK RIVERKEEPER INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundCombined Jewish Phila…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY14.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
  • Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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