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Brown Physicians Inc at a glance

· Public charity

Brown Physicians Inc

To support the purposes of the warren alpert medical school of brown university, as well as other tax-exempt nonprofit hospitals in rhode island.

$6.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$9.9MCommunity Improvement$176kYouth Development$27kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $591k
  • $250k+5 grants · $5.7M
$582,249
Median grant
1
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE$2,061,868
BROWN MEDICINE$1,456,307
BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH$1,322,993
UNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC DBA BROWN SURGICAL ASSOCIATES$582,249
BROWN UNIVERSITY$260,148
BROWN DERMATOLOGY$223,124
BROWN UROLOGY INC$207,931
BROWN NEUROLOGY$159,582
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE: $2.1M → 14%BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE: $1.6M → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $260k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $161k → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 14%BROWN MEDICINE: $1.5M → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH: $1.3M → 14%BROWN MEDICINE: $1.3M → 14%BROWN UNIVERSITY HEALTH: $1.1M → 14%BROWN DERMATOLOGY: $324k → 14%BROWN DERMATOLOGY: $223k → 14%BROWN NEUROLOGY: $160k → 14%BROWN NEUROLOGY INC: $100k → 14%HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $20k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS PROVIDENCE: $15k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS PROVIDENCE: $6k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE: $6k → 14%HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5k → 14%BROWN UROLOGY INC: $4.2M → 14%UNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC DBA BROWN SURGICAL ASSOCIATES: $802k → 14%UNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC DBA BROWN SURGICAL ASSOCIATES: $582k → 14%BROWN UROLOGY INC: $208k → 14%THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL: $35k → 14%THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL: $31k → 14%THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL: $30k → 14%THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL: $25k → 14%THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL: $25k → 14%THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL: $23k → 14%THE MIRIAM HOSPITAL: $5k → 14%RI COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 11 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
1

Total granted

$16M
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BE
    BROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +7%
  • BM
    BROWN MEDICINE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.7M · revenue +8%
  • LC
    Lifespan Corporation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
Coastal Medical Physicians Inc

CMPI was organized to provide accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based and innovative care to serve the health needs of the communities in Rhode Island and elsewhere.

Health
3
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
4
Newport Hospital

As a member hospital in the Brown Health system, NH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
5
Lifespan Foundation

BUHF operates exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health.

Health
6
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
7
Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital

As a member hospital in the Brown University Health system, EPBH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
8
Miriam Hospital Foundation

To be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, and more specifically, for the purpose of supporting and otherwise benefiting and being responsive to the needs of Brown University Health and its affiliates.

Health
9
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
10
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…

Health
11
Medical Care of Boston Management Corp

Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (apg) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…

Health
12
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brown Medicine; the most unlike its peers is The Miriam Hospital. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UROLOGY INC: $4,436,223 · HealthBROWN UROLOGY INCBROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INC: $3,662,289 · HealthBROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INCBROWN MEDICINE: $2,726,015 · HealthBROWN MEDICINELifespan Corporation: $2,434,862 · HealthLifespan Corporation+4 more: $772,949 · Health+4 moreUNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC: $1,384,136 · OtherUNIVERSIT…BROWN DERMATOLOGY INC: $546,627 · EducationBROWN UNIVERSITY: $435,714 · Community ImprovementBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $26,680 · Youth DevelopmentRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$14,032,338Other$1,384,136Education$546,627Community Improvement$435,714Youth Development$26,680Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UROLOGY INC: $4,436,223 over 2y, 17% of budgetBROWN EMERGENCY MEDICINE INC: $3,662,289 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBROWN MEDICINE: $2,726,015 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLifespan Corporation: $2,434,862 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY SURGICAL ASSOCIATES INC: $1,384,136 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBROWN DERMATOLOGY INC: $546,627 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $435,714 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital Foundation: $264,300 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN NEUROLOGY INC: $259,489 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Miriam Hospital: $174,160 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $26,680 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Ralph R Papitto & Bar…The Bank of America C…
Ralph R Papitto & Barbara a Papitto Private Family FoundationRI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Physicians Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Physicians Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Brown Physicians Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Brown Physicians Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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