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Herbert H & Mariea L Brown Charitable Tr Fu

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$65kArts & Culture$63kEnvironment$54kReligion$29kCommunity Improvement$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$549k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FIVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONN$3,000
CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 2782$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST MALACHY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $17k → 12%FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%SHERBURNE AREA LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORA: $11k → 12%FIVER CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONN: $3k → 17%SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJE: $10k → 12%THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJECT: $10k → 12%SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJE: $10k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $9k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $9k → 12%SHERBURNE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $9k → 12%VILLAGE OF SHERBURNE: $8k → 12%SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJE: $7k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $7k → 12%SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJE: $7k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $7k → 12%VILLAGE OF SHERBURNE: $7k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $6k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $6k → 12%SHERBURNE-EARLVILLE: $5k → 12%SHERBURNE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 12%SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJE: $5k → 12%SAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJE: $5k → 12%UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $5k → 12%VILLAGE OF SHERBURNE: $5k → 12%UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5k → 12%FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $5k → 12%VILLAGE OF SHERBURNE: $3k → 12%VILLAGE OF SHERBURNE: $3k → 12%VILLAGE OF SHERBURNE: $2k → 12%AMERICAN LEGION POST 876: $2k → 12%VILLAGE OF SHERBURNE: $2k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $11k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $11k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY S P C A: $10k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $9k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $9k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY S P C A: $7k → 12%Chenango County Historical Society: $6k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY S P C A: $5k → 12%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 2782: $4k → 12%Chenango County Historical Society: $4k → 12%VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME INC: $4k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $3k → 12%UHS CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $2k → 12%UHS CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $2k → 12%HOSPICE OF CHENANGO: $2k → 12%CHENANGO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL STY: $2k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 13 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
8

Total granted

$277k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+74%

Still filing today

46%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationRecreation & SportsPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CC
    CHENANGO COUNTY SPCA
    8× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +28%
  • FC
    FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +62%
  • CM
    CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • VM
    VETERANS MEMORIAL HOME INC
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • AL
    AMERICAN LEGION POST 876
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Hospice of Chenango County Inc

To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.

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2
Chenango Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

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.

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3
United Way of Mid Rural New York Inc

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.

Philanthropy
4
Chenango Greenway Conservancy Inc

Conserve and enhance public access to trails and green space in chenango county

Environment
5
Chenango River Theatre Inc

The creation of exceptionally high quality, affordable, professional, non-profit theatre to engage and educate a diverse audience, both traditional and non-traditional.

Arts & Culture
6
Historical Society of Cheshire County

To promote historical, genealogical and antiquarian research, to collect & preserve books, papers, maps, etc and to publish results of such research.

Arts & Culture
7
Venango County Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Chenango County Council of the Arts

To support life-enriching art throughout the greater chenango region

Arts & Culture
9
Huntington Historical Society

Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington

Arts & Culture
10
Chenango Nursery School Inc

To provide childcare services for approximately 140 children in the hamilton, ny area.

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11
Chebeague Transportation Co

To provide reliable and safe transportation to chebeague island, me.

Public Benefit
12
Chester County Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chenango County Historical Society; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTAL: $53,800 · OtherFRIENDS OF ROGERS ENVIRONMENTALIndividual grant recipient: $28,211 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST MALACHY'S CATHOLIC CHURCH: $18,864 · OtherST MALACHY'S CATHOLIC CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSHERBURNE AREA LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORA: $11,000 · OtherSHERBURNE AREA LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORAUNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $10,000 · OtherUNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 2782: $5,352 · Other+7 more: $16,212 · Other+7 moreCHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $65,250 · AnimalsCHENANGO COUNTY SPCASAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJECT INC: $54,000 · Arts & CultureSAVE THE SHERBURNE INN …CHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,150 · Arts & CultureCHENANGO COUNTY HISTORI…CHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $5,313 · HealthTRUTH PHARM INC: $1,500 · HealthFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SHERBURNE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,000 · EducationCHENANGO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$158,439Animals$65,250Arts & Culture$63,150Health$6,813Youth Development$6,500Education$3,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHENANGO COUNTY SPCA: $65,250 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSAVE THE SHERBURNE INN RESTORATION PROJECT INC: $54,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetCHENANGO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9,150 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHENANGO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $5,313 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHERBURNE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHENANGO COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHENANGO FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTWIN TIERS HONOR FLIGHT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Greater Norwich FoundationNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Herbert H & Mariea L Brown Charitable Tr Fu funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert H & Mariea L Brown Charitable Tr Fu. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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