· Private foundation
Clayton Brown 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Josiah Venture | $200,000 |
| Naples Christian Academy | $150,000 |
| Wheaton Academy | $150,000 |
| Ligonier Ministries | $125,000 |
| By the Hand Club for Kids | $125,000 |
| South Point Youth | $125,000 |
| The Navigators | $125,000 |
| Moody Global Ministries | $125,000 |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $100,000 |
| Concentric | $100,000 |
| Outreach Community Ministries | $100,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $100,000 |
| Prison Fellowship | $25,000 |
| CRU | $25,000 |
| Project Medsend | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $390k 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
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $218k · revenue +19%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2021–2025 · $176k · revenue +83%
- DTDallas Theological Seminary4× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CPCovenant Pres Ch Naplesone grant, 2024 · $50k
- GEGREATER EUROPE MISSIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
- IHIN HIS STEPS MINISTRIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +30%
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.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To provide the bible in accurate, contemporary translations and formats so that more people around the world will have the opportunity to be transformed by jesus christ.
The organization is dedicated to reaching people for christ through an international network of christians who journey with the poor and marginalized, bringing practical and spiritual support with hope of a better future,(continued on…
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
To get the good news to every nation this generation by showing and sharing god's love by providing opportunities and supporting christian missionaries in over fifty seven countries around the world.
To glorify God by providing biblically sound resources and structured study material to teach people from every nation to accept Christ as their Savior and Lord, grow in Christ, and share their faith with others.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Asbury Theological Seminary is a community called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the love of Jesus Christ, in the…
Leveraging technology to invite all people to know jesus christ as savior and grow in a personal relationship with him.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Eurasia and the most unlike its peers is Luis Palau Association. 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 50 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.
29 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. 29 of the 47 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Josiah Venture ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WHEATON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds Naples Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MEDSEND ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
- Who funds AWANA CLUBS INTERNATIONAL AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds Inner City Impact ↗
- Who funds MISSION EURASIA ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds WITNESS BREAKTHROUGH 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: Tyndale House Ministries · The Cornerstone Center Foundation · James E Elliot Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Domanada Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Richard H and Janice R Popp Charitable Found · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Signatry Charitable 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 Clayton 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Clayton Brown Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Clayton Brown Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.