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· Private foundation
H L & ELIZABETH M BROWN FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$491k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants
2
Communities
$181k
Largest
01What you fund
0172% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Arts & Culture$281kEducation$150kHuman Services$50kScience & Tech$20kOther$195k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
contribute aid
2019
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2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
tarrant
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $331k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC$180,717
- PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIOR HEALTH CENTER$100,000
- TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY$50,000
- TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK$40,000
- LENA POPE HOME$30,000
- ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER$25,000
- GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES$20,000
- SIXTY AND BETTER$20,000
- BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS$20,000
- UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF TARRANT COUNTY$5,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$411k · 3 repeat orgs$285k to everyone else
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
1
Total granted
$411k
$50k
Still filing today
100%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesScience & TechOther
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
- TBTEXAS BALLET THEATER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $226k · revenue +155%
- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2023 · $130k · revenue +41%
- ARANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER3× · 2020–2023 · $56k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SAST ANN'S CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Texas Lutheran University
As a community of faith and learning, texas lutheran university empowers a diverse student body through an education centered on the liberal arts and professional programs. see form 990, part iii, line 1 for continuation of mission…
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2
The McCombs School of Business
To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.
Education
3
Texas Wesleyan University
Founded in 1890 in fort worth, texas wesleyan university is a united methodist institution with a tradition in the liberal arts and sciences... (continued on sch. o)
Education
4
The University of Texas Law School
Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.
Education
5
Baylor University Medical Center
Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Dallas/Fort Worth twelve county region since 1903.
Health
6
Trinity Broadcasting of Texas
To spread the gospel of jesus christ to the world
Religion
7
Texas Health Physicians Group
A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF the people in the communities it serves, regarless of thier ability to pay.
Health
8
Genetic Resource Association of Texas
Health
9
Center for 20TH Century Texas Studies
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10
University of Dallas
The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…
Education
11
The Dallas Opera
Performance of opera productions, education and community engagement programs.
Arts & Culture
12
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Ballet Theater Inc and the most unlike its peers is Botanical Research Institute of Texas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$281,217Other$195,000Education$150,000Human Services$50,000Science & Tech$20,000
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 TEXAS BALLET THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds TARRANT AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LENA POPE HOME ↗
- Who funds SIXTY AND BETTER ↗
- Who funds BOTANICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GILL CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF TARRANT COUNTY ↗
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.
Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan FoTX18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Robert D and Catherine R Alexander · The Roach Foundation Inc · The Alcon Foundation Inc · Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trust · The Morris Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation H L & ELIZABETH M BROWN 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SIXTY AND BETTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 751251339 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SIXTY AND BETTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to H L & Elizabeth M Brown Foundation?
Find your warmest path to H L & Elizabeth M Brown Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines