· Private foundation
Elsie a Brown Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NFA SLATER MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| NFA JUDITH E HAMBLEN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| ARC OF NEW LONDON COUNTY | $8,000 |
| JOHN KELLEY MEMORIAL FUND | $6,000 |
| NFA ELEANOR BO CONARY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| CT FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NFA HOWARD AND ELSIE BROWN SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| MARTIN HOUSE | $3,000 |
| MADONNA PLACE | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- TATHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +18%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +64%
- MHMartin House Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- NCNFA CHARLES F HAMBLEN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2021 · $5k
- SMSLATER MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $2k
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 a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
To provide healthcare services.
The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
In 1974 the connecticut hospice inc., a 501(c)(3) not for profit, founded america's hospice movement, almost 50 years later, we continue to set the national standard for home and inpatient hospice care and have become a leader in…
Tertiary care academic medical center
Connecticut children's medical center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. we embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all…
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 50 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 ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Martin House Inc ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OTIS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds North Andover Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM 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: 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
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 Elsie a Brown Fund Inc 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.
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 76% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding 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.