· Private foundation
Herbert H & Mariea L Brown Charitable Tr Fu
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHERBURNE AREA LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORA | $11,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL | $6,000 |
| Chenango County Historical Society | $5,500 |
| SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJE | $5,000 |
| CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA | $3,000 |
| FIVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONN | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 2782 | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- CCCHENANGO COUNTY SPCA8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +28%
- FCFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +49%
- CMCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- VMVETERANS MEMORIAL HOME INCone grant, 2019 · $4k
- ALAMERICAN LEGION POST 876one grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.
Chenango memorial hospital foundation, inc. is a not-for-profit corporation organized to provide funds for the improvement of patient care at chenango memorial hospital.
Chenango united way builds partnerships and maximizes resources to improve the quality of life for local residents in the focus areas of income, education and health.
Conserve and enhance public access to trails and green space in chenango county
The creation of exceptionally high quality, affordable, professional, non-profit theatre to engage and educate a diverse audience, both traditional and non-traditional.
To promote historical, genealogical and antiquarian research, to collect & preserve books, papers, maps, etc and to publish results of such research.
To promote the study of the history of venango county and its general area and to develop an interest in the study of venango county and its citizens.
To support life-enriching art throughout the greater chenango region
Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington
To provide childcare services for approximately 140 children in the hamilton, ny area.
To provide reliable and safe transportation to chebeague island, me.
The chester county historical society (the "society") is a nonprofit organization established to inspire, inform and build community identity by preserving and sharing the remarkable story of chester county and its people. the society…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chenango County Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Twin Tiers Honor Flight Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHERBURNE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHENANGO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRUTH PHARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHENANGO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN TIERS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
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: The Greater Norwich Foundation · The R C Smith Foundation Inc · The Roger W Follett Foundation Inc Co Lee Emerson and Palmer LLP · 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 Herbert H & Mariea L Brown Charitable Tr Fu 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.