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Browne Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Browne Family Foundation Inc

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.

$810k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$89kEnvironment$70kAnimals$53kHuman Services$25kEducation$25kHousing & Shelter$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$750,000
ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY$50,000
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST$5,000
TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $15k → 17%TEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 23%EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $10k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $50k → 17%ARKANSAS GAME & FISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $10k → 17%Nature Conservancy: $10k → 17%ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH: $3k → 17%GOODNESS VILLAGE: $3k → 17%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $750k → 17%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $50k → 17%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $44k → 17%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S FIRST: $20k → 17%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15k → 17%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$874k · 3 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$874k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-25%
+71%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • AC
    ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $839k · revenue -25%
  • EC
    EPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • WC
    WOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue -31%

Funded once

  • DW
    Delta Waterfowl Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +97%
  • WA
    WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S FIRST
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AG
    ARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +71%
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
Arkansas Children's Northwest Inc

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
2
Arkansas Children's Hospital

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
3
Arkansas Wildlife Federation Inc

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…

Animals
4
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

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…

Human Services
5
Ouachita Mountains Biological Station
Environment
6
Arkansas River Watershed Collaborative

Arwc's mission is to serve colorado's arkansas river basin communities by addressing locally-identified watershed issues for economic, ecological & social benefit.

Environment
7
Arkansas Nonprofit News Network

Producing journalism that matters to Arkansans.

Arts & Culture
8
Arkansas Community Foundation Inc

Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.

Philanthropy
9
Arkansans for Education Reform Foundation
Education
10
Arkansas Children's Research Institute

The vision of arkansas children's research institute is to be a leader in cutting-edge research that improves the health and well-being of children and their families. in support of this vision, arkansas children's research institute aims…

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11
The Ark Conservancy
Animals
12
Arkansas Bankers Association Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arkansas Children's Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Goodness Village. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $839,000 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION+1 more: $2,500 · HealthTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $70,000 · OtherTHE NATUR…WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S FIRST: $20,000 · OtherWOMEN'S A…+1 more: $2,500 · OtherARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $50,000 · PhilanthropyDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $40,000 · AnimalsARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · AnimalsEPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$841,500Other$92,500Philanthropy$50,000Animals$50,000Education$25,000Human Services$10,000Arts & Culture$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 budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $839,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEPISCOPAL COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN & CHILDREN FIRST THE CENTER AGAINST FAMILY VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARKANSAS GAME AND FISH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTEXARKANA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOODNESS VILLAGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Browne Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Browne Family Foundation Inc. 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%6%13%19%25%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 · 0–25%
    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 11 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-PF 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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