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Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc

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.

$80k
Granted FY2021
5
Grants FY2021
5
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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56% of Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $80k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
8
’18
6
’19
3
’20
5
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$19k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20215$80k0%
FY20203$70k0%
FY20196$100k0%
FY20188$115k13%
FY20178$146kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$700kHuman Services$550kEducation$148kHousing & Shelter$143kYouth Development$96kCrime & Legal$95kFood & Nutrition$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Housing Plus Solutions Inc$142,50051%
Bennington College Corporation$125,00050%
The College and Community Fellowship Inc$96,00051%
Justleadershipusa Inc$75,00021%
Bard College$20,00030%
Church of the Holy Apostles$20,0004n/a
The Fortune Society Inc$20,00030%
The Havens Relief Fund Society$10,00020%
Defy Ventures Inc$2,50010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($550k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHousing Plus Solutions Inc: $142,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBennington College Corporation: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe College and Community Fellowship Inc: $96,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJustleadershipusa Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBard College: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Havens Relief Fund Society: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDefy Ventures Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc

How much does Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc give?
Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc reported 5 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Human Services (31%), Education (8%).
Who are Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Housing Plus Solutions Inc ($143k), Bennington College Corporation ($125k), The College and Community Fellowship Inc ($96k).
Does Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc based?
Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 11 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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