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Elsie a Brown Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
38
Grants FY2024
34
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
34 to 44
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Elsie a Brown Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
EnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving38$111k11%
FY202334$128k0%
FY202244$134k9%
FY202142$105kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$143kHealth$92kArts & Culture$85kHousing & Shelter$47kHuman Services$34kFood & Nutrition$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($198k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elsie a Brown Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorwich Historical Society Inc: $18,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMartin House Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMadonna Place Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThames River Community Service Inc: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Hope of Fairfield Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Historical Society: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOtis Library: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHaitian Health Foundation: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Lunch Place Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharles River Watershed Association Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Andover Historical Society: $4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSociety for the Preservation of New Engl: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMystic Seaport Museum Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlways Home Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHigh Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth East Connecticut Community Center of the Blind Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · R S Gernon Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc · Olga Sipolin Children's Fund

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.

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About Elsie a Brown Fund Inc

How much does Elsie a Brown Fund Inc give?
Elsie a Brown Fund Inc reported 38 grants totaling $111,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 44 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Elsie a Brown Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Elsie a Brown Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc ($38k), John Kelley Memorial Fund ($27k), Norwich Historical Society Inc ($18k).
Does Elsie a Brown Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Elsie a Brown Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Elsie a Brown Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chelsea Groton Foundation, R S Gernon Trust, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Elsie a Brown Fund Inc based?
Elsie a Brown Fund Inc is based in CT.

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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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