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Charles S & Millicent P Brown Family Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of Charles S & Millicent P Brown Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $314k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Mosaic Project | $33,000 |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church - Disaster Relief | $30,000 |
| Girls on the Run Rhode Island | $30,000 |
| Chatham Education Foundation | $24,500 |
| Cora Foundation | $24,500 |
| Community Combined Ministries | $21,500 |
| Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc | $20,000 |
| Stratton Foundation Career-Trade Scholarships | $20,000 |
| Jamestown Yorktown Foundation | $18,000 |
| Midwest Food Bank | $18,000 |
| MassBioEd Foundation | $17,500 |
| Canticle Farm - Casa Tres Hermanas Sanctuary | $15,000 |
| Reach Out and Read Rhode Island | $12,000 |
| Stratton Foundation Financial Literacy Program | $10,000 |
| Williamsburg Music Association | $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 (FY20–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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 +27% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 6 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- TMTHE MOSAIC PROJECT3× · 2022–2024 · $101k · revenue +18%
Cornell University2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +59%- CCCOMMUNITY COMBINED MIINISTRIES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $87k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ILone grant, 2020 · $39k
- MBMass Biotech Education Foundationone grant, 2022 · $31k
- DCDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +51%
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 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).
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Williamsburg Youth Orchestra. 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 33 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 — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 84 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 JAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MOSAIC PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COMBINED MIINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY ECOLOGY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run Rhode Island ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ RHODE ISLAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER WILLIAMSBURG COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM OUTREACH ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS CANCERCARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Rbwr Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Barton Family Foundation Dtd 4242013 · Greater Williamsburg Community Trust · Doug and Diane Oberhelman Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Charles S & Millicent P Brown 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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.
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