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Brown S & S Fdn
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MR J STOKES BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| WILLOW OAK CENTER FOR | $45,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD FIRST UNITED METHODIST | $35,300 |
| ROBERTSON COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $20,000 |
| OPEN DOOR PREGNANCY & RESOURCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| ALIVE HOSPICE | $15,000 |
| CASA OF ROBERTSON COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| EDDIES HAVEN | $12,000 |
| MY FATHERS HOUSE | $12,000 |
| ROBERTSON COUNTY HISTORY MUSEUM | $11,000 |
| ROBERTSON COUNTY PLAYERS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MID CUMBERLAND HUMAN RESOURCE AGENCY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY SPIRIT INC | $10,000 |
| CHO-ZEN YOUTH LEADERSHIP MENTORSHIP | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–26, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- WOWILLOW OAK CENTER FOR8× · 2018–2026 · $395k
- MJMR J STOKES BROWN PUBLIC LIBRARY8× · 2018–2026 · $215k
- NMNORTHCREST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $200k · revenue -50% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $23k
- SRSPRINGFIELD ROBERTSON COUNTY SENIORone grant, 2018 · $20k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SPRINGFIELDone grant, 2018 · $18k
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.
Effective prosecution of child abuses, providing therapy and education for the abused, and providing a safe haven for the abused.
Providing primary health care and professional counseling services to all indviduals who need it.
Roane County Medical Center is a 54-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Harriman, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
Cumberland Medical Center is a 189-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Crossville, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
Mission is to comfort the body and heal the heart through compassionate quality care during end-of-life experiences, so patients and families may live each day with peace, comfort and dignity. we also serve the community by providing…
Rockcastle hospital is organized to provide medical care to members of its community.
To provide an environment where business and residents grow in economic prosperity, enjoy a vibrant community and value the sense of place which makes robertson county unique.
To continue our heritage of healing and improving life for the people we serve.
The promotion of health care to the citizens of boone county, missouri and surrounding areas.
We provide highly effective mental health and addiction treatment that helps people reach full potential for health and well-being.
Mississippi methodist senior services (mss) has proudly served older adults by providing comfortable, affordable housing, support, and long-term care services since 1962. it is ranked 51st in the national leadingage/ziegler 200 list of the…
Methodist Medical Center is a 283-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Oak Ridge, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Spirit Inc and the most unlike its peers is Springfield-Robertson County Senior. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 21 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brown S & S Fdn 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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