· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $25,000 |
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE & COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP | $20,000 |
| HOLY APOSTLES SOUP KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| THE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +162% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHousing Plus Solutions Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $143k · revenue +386%
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION5× · 2017–2021 · $125k · revenue +47%
- TCTHE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC5× · 2017–2021 · $96k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- DVDEFY VENTURES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds Housing Plus Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DEFY VENTURES INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry J Brown Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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