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Elsie a Brown Fund Inc at a glance

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Elsie a Brown Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CT FOOD BANK$5,000
MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
NFA ELEANOR BO CONARY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
NFA HOWARD AND ELSIE BROWN SCHOLARSHIP$5,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
MARTIN HOUSE$3,000
THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE$3,000
NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$3,000
MADONNA PLACE$3,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 11%MADONNA PLACE: $4k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 9%MADONNA PLACE: $4k → 9%MADONNA PLACE: $4k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3k → 9%MADONNA PLACE: $3k → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $4k → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $3k → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $3k → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$453k · 44 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
2

Total granted

$453k
$7k

Still filing today

55%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TA
    THE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $38k · revenue +18%
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +64%
  • MH
    Martin House Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • NC
    NFA CHARLES F HAMBLEN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • SM
    SLATER MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, RIH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
2
The Connecticut River Foundation At Steamboat Dock Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
3
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
4
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
6
Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation

To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.

Health
7
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
8
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

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…

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9
The Connecticut Hospice Inc

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…

Human Services
10
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
11
Connecticut Children's 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…

Health
12
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NFA JUDITH E HAMBLEN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP: $70,000 · OtherNFA JUDITH E HAMBLEN ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPTHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $38,000 · OtherTHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INCJOHN KELLEY MEMORIAL FUND: $27,000 · OtherJOHN KELLEY MEMORIAL FUNDNFA HOWARD AND ELSIE BROWN SCHOLARSHIP: $20,000 · OtherNFA HOWARD AND ELSIE BROWN SCHOLARSHIPNFA ELEANOR BO CONARY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP: $20,000 · OtherNFA ELEANOR BO CONARY ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $17,500 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCNORWICH REGIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOL: $17,000 · OtherNORWICH REGIONAL TECHNICAL SCHOOLNFA SLATER MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $15,000 · Other+21 more: $72,000 · Other+21 moreMartin House Inc: $15,000 · HealthMartin House I…THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE M…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $11,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J …BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $7,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER U…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DI…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 · HealthDana-Farber Ca…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthMadonna Place Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Plac…Thames River Community Service Inc: $14,500 · Human ServicesThames River…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $12,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…Safe Futures Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesSafe Futures…NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureMAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8,000 · Arts & CultureNorth Andover Historical Society: $4,500 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterALWAYS HOME INC: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterOTIS LIBRARY: $7,500 · EducationHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $7,500 · InternationalCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Environment
Other$296,500Health$60,000Human Services$54,000Arts & Culture$37,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Education$7,500International$7,500Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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 Founda…R S Gernon TrustThe Pfizer Foundation…The Community Foundat…Dominion Energy Chari…The Edward and Mary L…Dime Bank Foundation …Liberty Bank Foundati…Peoples United Commun…Eastern Ct Savings Ba…United Way of Southea…Olga Sipolin Children…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elsie a Brown Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elsie a Brown Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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