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· Private foundation

Harry G and Mary Lore Flowe Brown

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.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Education$1.4MHuman Services$537kReligion$537kHealth$384kArts & Culture$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TRUSTEES OF DAVIDSON COLLEGE$40,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$40,000
WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY$40,000
THE PINES AT DAVIDSON$40,000
ST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE$40,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
WINGATE UNIVERSITY$40,000
NORTHEAST FOUNDATION$40,000
CENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$20,000
MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN$20,000
ROCKY RIVER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
HISTORIC CABARRUS INC$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY A GEORGIA CORP$10,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–25, $461k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $22k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $19k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $19k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $19k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $18k → 11%MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN: $18k → 11%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $45k → 10%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $40k → 10%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $40k → 10%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $38k → 10%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $38k → 10%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $37k → 10%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $35k → 10%THE PINES AT DAVIDSON: $35k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 17 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
0

Total granted

$3.1M
$0

Still filing today

47%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • CH
    CABARRUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $307k · revenue +13%
  • TP
    THE PINES AT DAVIDSON INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $307k · revenue +96%
  • SA
    ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $307k · revenue +41%

Funded once

    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.

    1
    Barton College

    Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

    Education
    2
    Wilson College

    Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

    Education
    3
    Furman University

    The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

    Education
    4
    Drake University

    See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…

    Education
    5
    University of New Haven

    The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

    Education
    6
    Greenville College

    Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

    Education
    7
    Southern Wesleyan University

    Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.

    Education
    8
    Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    9
    Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

    Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

    Health
    10
    Lehigh University

    The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

    Education
    11
    Point Park University

    Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

    12
    Columbia College

    Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

    Education

    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Davidson College and the most unlike its peers is Cabarrus Healthcare Foundation. 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

    8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    1
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    8/8
    Grantees still filing
    7/8
    Grew since you first funded

    Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $307,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $307,000 · OtherST ANDREWS UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient — $162,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $153,500 · OtherCENTRAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCHPEACE COLLEGE — $145,000 · OtherPEACE COLLEGETHE FOUNDATION OF UNC CHARLOTTE — $145,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF UNC CHARLOTTEDAVIDSON COLLEGE ENDOWMENT — $82,500 · OtherDAVIDSON COLLEGE ENDOWMENTHISTORIC CABARRUS INC — $76,750 · OtherROCKY RIVER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $76,750 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $76,750 · OtherWINGATE UNIVERSITY — $307,000 · EducationWINGATE UNIVERSITYDavidson College — $224,500 · EducationDavidson CollegeWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY — $162,000 · EducationWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITYTHE PINES AT DAVIDSON INC — $307,000 · Human ServicesTHE PINES AT DAVI…THE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC — $153,500 · Human ServicesTHE MASONIC HOME …CABARRUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $307,000 · HealthCABARRUS HEALT…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $76,750 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPI…
    Other$1,532,250Education$693,500Human Services$460,500Health$383,750

    Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCABARRUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $307,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PINES AT DAVIDSON INC — $307,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY — $307,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY — $307,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College — $224,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY — $162,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC — $153,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $76,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budget
    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 CABARRUS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    • Who funds THE PINES AT DAVIDSON INC
    • Who funds ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
    • Who funds WINGATE UNIVERSITY
    • Who funds Davidson College
    • Who funds WILLIAM PEACE UNIVERSITY
    • Who funds THE MASONIC HOME FOR CHILDREN AT OXFORD INC
    • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN

    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.

    Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 G and Mary Lore Flowe Brown 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.

    2024
    202122232425
    no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
    • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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