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Himan Brown Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $308k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 92ND ST Y | $1,600,000 |
| HILLEL AT CORNELL INC | $545,000 |
| KEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC | $350,000 |
| REPAIR THE WORLD INC | $300,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $250,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $200,000 |
| AFTER SCHOOL ALL-STARS | $185,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $150,000 |
| HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC | $150,000 |
| BRANCHES INC | $150,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NY INC | $75,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS INC | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
57 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +5%
Cornell University3× · 2022–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +15%- GLGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $927k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- RTREPAIR THE WORLD INC (MIAMI FL)one grant, 2021 · $200k
- BMBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC UNITED WAY ANSIN BUILDINGone grant, 2024 · $100k
- ASAFTER SCHOOL ALL STARSone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leopold Schepp Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
68 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. 68 of the 96 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 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds KEY BISCAYNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds REPAIR THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STEVEN K AND WINIFRED A GRINSPOON HILLEL CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds ADRIENNE ARSHT CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER-SCHOOL ALL-STARS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR NEW EDUCATION INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds Leopold Schepp Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Miami Foundation Inc · Key Biscayne Community Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust
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 Himan Brown Charitable Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Health in the Hood Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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