· Private foundation
Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k77 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR ARCHITECTURE INCORPORATED | $10,000 |
| YWCA RICHMOND | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| LEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND INC | $3,000 |
| COMMUNICATION ALLIANCE TO NETWORK THOROUGHBRED EX- | $2,600 |
| EQUUS EFFECT | $2,500 |
| CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY | $2,000 |
| ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| VALENTINE MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EARTH | $1,750 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC | $1,500 |
| PITZER COLLEGE | $1,500 |
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, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
107 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TVThe Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated6× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +16%
- YRYWCA RICHMOND8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +190%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SCSHIMER COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
- SFStorefront for Community Designone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -47%
- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -21%
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.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Changeorg Charitable Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for the Advancement of Journalistic Clarity. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
128 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. 128 of the 154 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 The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VISUAL ARTS CENTER OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE FIRST REPLACING OIL & GAS ↗
- Who funds SHIMER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
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: David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Otis & Bettina Chandler Foundation · Monimos Foundation · HHL Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robins Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation
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 Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Owensville Primary Care Inc — 24% of income from government
- Arundel Rivers Federation Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% 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.