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Harold Brown Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$905k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$932kEducation$830kHuman Services$486kFood & Nutrition$445kYouth Development$415kArts & Culture$232kHousing & Shelter$232kReligion$207kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $380k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP RAINBOW GOLD$100,000
SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION$100,000
CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC$100,000
SOLA FOUNDATION$100,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$50,000
ELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS$50,000
THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION$25,000
LOS ANGELES MISSION$25,000
ST BARNABAS SENIOR SERVICES$25,000
WESTSIDE FOODBANK$25,000
INNOVIA FOUNDATION$25,000
BET TZEDEK LEGAL SERVICES$25,000
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$25,000
THE HUNGER COALITION$25,000
DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$25,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $484k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $6k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $15k → 7%TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $25k → 23%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $5k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $10k → 7%TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $25k → 23%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $50k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $5k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $10k → 7%COMMUNITY ACTION CENTER: $5k → 20%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $5k → 7%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $25k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $24k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $8k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $100 → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC: $100k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC: $50k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT INC: $50k → 14%CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT: $5k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%LANGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
NY
NV
PA
NJ
CA
MD
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 58 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
26

Total granted

$3.6M
$774k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+20%

Still filing today

69%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • SU
    STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK
    3× · 2021–2024 · $225k · revenue +4%
  • CO
    Children of the Night
    4× · 2021–2024 · $205k · revenue +28%
  • SE
    SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA
    2× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • PC
    PACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $335k · revenue +78%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
  • UG
    USC GOULD SCHOOL OF LAW
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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2
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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3
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
4
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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5
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
6
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
7
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
10
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
11
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
12
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Doheny Eye Institute. 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

52 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. 52 of the 89 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
33/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOLWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $127,500 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYWSU FOUNDATION: $126,500 · OtherWSU FOUNDATIONBET TZEDEK LEGAL SERVICES: $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $98,000 · OtherST BARNABAS SENIOR CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $90,000 · OtherEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $99,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $78,500 · Other+51 more: $1,310,800 · Other+51 moreSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $150,000 · HealthSANKARA EYE …DIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $125,000 · HealthDIDI HIRSCH …THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthTHE SUNSHINE…SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $83,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S…VANGUARD CANCER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · HealthChildren of the Night: $205,000 · Human ServicesChildren of…UNION RESCUE MISSION: $132,600 · Human ServicesUNION RESCU…TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesTEAM GLEASO…Charity Navigator: $40,000 · Human ServicesCharity Nav…LANGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Human ServicesLANGE FOUND…Community Action Center: $21,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,400 · Human ServicesPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $335,000 · EducationPACIFICA CH…Harmony Project: $90,000 · EducationHarmony Pro…The Blind Childrens Center Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Blind C…+1 more: $10,000 · EducationSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $225,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $91,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL THEATRE WEST: $51,000 · Arts & CultureALMA BACKYARD FARM: $100,000 · Food & NutritionOUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES: $55,000 · Food & NutritionWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $35,000 · Food & NutritionBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $20,000 · Food & NutritionTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTEEL MAGNOLIAS: $47,000 · Youth DevelopmentC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $30,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,280,300Health$503,000Human Services$489,000Education$485,000Arts & Culture$367,000Food & Nutrition$285,000Youth Development$277,000

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 budgetPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $335,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSTEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: $225,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetChildren of the Night: $205,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMILKEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION: $132,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SOLA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetALMA BACKYARD FARM: $100,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $99,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $98,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $91,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST BARNABAS SENIOR CENTER OF LOS ANGELES: $90,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHarmony Project: $90,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $83,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $78,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN: $75,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $75,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPAW WORKS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBLIND CENTER OF NEVADA INC: $66,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES: $55,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMUSICAL THEATRE WEST: $51,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSTEEL MAGNOLIAS: $47,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetCharity Navigator: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCONCERN FOUNDATION: $37,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLANGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS WASHINGTON: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPATHWAYS TO INDEPENDENCE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Action Center: $21,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWags and Walks: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMANDA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRECIOUS LAMB PRESCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

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.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Rosalie and Harold Br…Carrie Estelle Doheny…The Rose Hills Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Community PartnersJewish Community Foun…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Bank of America C…
California Community FoundationCA27.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Rosalie and Harold Brown Charitable Trust · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Community Partners · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Harold Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    How do I get to Harold Brown Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Harold Brown 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.

    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 89 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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