· Private foundation
Brownstein Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF ISLAND FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON PROGRESS FUND | $5,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| HOUSE WITH A HEART | $3,000 |
| SANCA | $2,000 |
| NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE | $2,000 |
| AHIMSA HAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE | $2,000 |
| REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS | $2,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY RHODE ISLAND | $2,000 |
| ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY SPCA | $1,500 |
| US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS | $1,500 |
| ASPCA | $1,000 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- WPWashington Progress Fund8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +32%
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +10%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +110%
Funded once
WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +182%- BIBLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SCSIERRA CLUBone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -41%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Us Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc and the most unlike its peers is Julie Valentine Center. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 66 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.
- Who funds Washington Progress Fund ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH AND HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds ENDOCRINE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AHIMSA HAVEN ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION INC DBA FAMILIAL DYSAUTONOMIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE 180 ↗
- Who funds US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds JULIE VALENTINE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Brownstein Family Foundation 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.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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.