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Brown Medicine

BROWN MEDICINE is a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty medical group with practice locations in providence, ri and surrounding communities.

$83k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

88% of Brown Medicine’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Brown Medicine named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $64k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
3
’18
7
’19
7
’20
2
’21
3
’22
5
’23
3
’24
3
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$427kFood & Nutrition$30kYouth Development$7kArts & Culture$5kCrime & Legal$2kRecreation & Sports$1kHuman Services$1k
02FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $64,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $83,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,850 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $43k
$10,750
Median grant
1
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$17,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$15,000
RI MEDICAL SOCIETY$10,750
BROWN UNIVERSITY THE WARREN ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL$8,000
HOPE HEALTH$7,500
BOYS AND GIRLS OF PROVIDENCE$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HOPE HEALTH: $8k → 14%HOPE HEALTH: $4k → 14%HOPE HEALTH: $4k → 14%AIDS PROJECT RI: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$452k · 9 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$452k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Rhode Island Hospital
    6× · 2017–2022 · $269k · revenue +79%
  • Rhode Island Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $41k · revenue +65%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +117%
  • GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +163%
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL EPROVSEEKONK
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +5%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Care Transformation Collaborative of Ri

The mission of ctc-ri is to support the continuing transformation of primary care in rhode island as the foundation of an ever-improving integrated, accessible, affordable, and equitable health care system. ctc-ri brings together critical…

Health
2
The Rhode Island Public Health Association

The rhode island public health association (ripha) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, tax-exempt, professional organization that works toward the advancement of public health. ripha is the rhode island affiliate of the american public health…

Human Services
3
The Rhode Island Public Health Foundation

The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…

Health
4
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
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5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
7
Women & Infants Hospital of Ri

Women & infants hospital of rhode island, a teaching hospital of the warren alpert school of medicine at brown university, is committed to improving the health and well being of women and infants and to providing essential services…

Health
8
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

—
9
Brown Emergency Medicine Inc

To provide exceptional emergency medical care, education, research, and service to the people of rhode island and beyond.

Health
10
Lifespan Physician Group Inc

Lifespan Physician Group, Inc., now known as Brown Health Medical Group (BHMG) provides accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based care to serve the health care needs of Rhode Islanders and others. BHMG's mission…

Health
11
Brown Medicine

Brown medicine is a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty medical group with practice locations in providence, ri and surrounding communities. our three-part mission combines patient care, teaching, and research, enabling us to provide…

Health
12
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rhode Island Hospital: $268,850 · HealthRhode Island HospitalRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $40,500 · HealthRhode Island Hospital FoundationTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC: $26,500 · HealthTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INCThe Miriam Hospital: $16,000 · HealthRHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $188,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYRHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20,750 · OtherTHE TOMORROW FUND: $19,000 · Other+2 more: $2,280 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $30,000 · Food & NutritionHOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $15,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesDANCING FOR A CAUSE INC: $8,500 · Arts & CultureRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $2,000 · Civil Rights
Health$366,850Community Improvement$188,000Other$42,030Food & Nutrition$30,000Human Services$16,500Arts & Culture$13,500Youth Development$6,000Civil Rights$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRhode Island Hospital: $268,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $188,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $40,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND FREE CLINIC INC: $26,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY: $20,750 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE TOMORROW FUND: $19,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDANCING FOR A CAUSE INC: $8,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA & MUSIC SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL EPROVSEEKONK: $1,280 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EAST PROVIDENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Amica Companies Found…The Champlin Foundati…The Rhode Island Comm…The Beacon FoundationRalph R Papitto & Bar…United Way of Rhode I…Citizens Charitable F…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…Harborone Foundation …Washington Trust Co C…Bristol County Saving…Delta Dental of Rhode…
Amica Companies FoundationRI23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amica Companies Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Beacon Foundation · Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Harborone Foundation Rhode Island · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Delta Dental of Rhode Island

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brown Medicine funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Medicine. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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