· Private foundation
Harry and Louise Brown Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS | $100,000 |
| LAKE FORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOODSON CENTER | $10,000 |
| SAM THE I CAN MAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION - OKC | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION - DALLAS | $7,500 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP | $7,500 |
| CASADY SCHOOL | $6,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY HOSPITAL OF BETHLEHEM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH-SEWANEE | $5,000 |
| A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TULSA CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
55 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +32%
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation5× · 2021–2025 · $48k · revenue +9%- WCWOODSON CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF ARDMOREone grant, 2021 · $25k
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LONE GROVEone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CFCLASSICALLY FORMED FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +108%
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.
The mission of the okcfjc is to provide protection, hope and healing to those impacted by domestic and family violence in the oklahoma city community. the organization provides a centrally located facility which co-locates and coordinates…
The oklahoma hall of fame preserves oklahomas unique history while promoting pride in our great state through each of its programs and the gaylord-pickens museum. the association honors our states rich tradition by telling oklahomas story…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Okaloosa habitat for humanity is a non-profit, christian organization dedicated to eliminating substandard housing in okaloosa county. we provide opportunites for the community to show god's love in action. through partnership with people…
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
The State Chamber Research Foundation strives to support Oklahoma's growth and increase prosperity for all Oklahomans. We create solution orientated programming, advance research and policy, and provide sound data geared to advancing…
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Chance to Change Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sam the I Can Man Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 101 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 OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Center of Family Love ↗
- Who funds Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE FORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE TO CHANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAGABOND MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART INC FKA OKLAHOMA CITY ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION AT SAINT FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWVIEW OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds DALE ROGERS TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARPENTERS BOAT SHOP ↗
- Who funds CITY RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
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: Inasmuch Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Wegener Foundation Inc · Love Meyer Family Foundation · The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Bowen Foundation · Cresap Family Foundation
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 Harry and Louise 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Dale Rogers Training Center Inc — 79% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% 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.
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