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Howard & Carole Brent Foundation at a glance

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Howard & Carole Brent Foundation

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.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$8kHealth$5kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$3kEducation$2kAnimals$2kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$650
Median grant
1
States reached
$48k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH$2,450
CAMP LOOKING GLASS$1,000
JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE$650
Individual grant recipient$500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$300
JESSE BRENT MERRICK JON ES MEMORIAL$300
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 25%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%DRS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $1k → 18%WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $2k → 27%GRAMMY MUSEUM MISSISSIPPI: $250 → 29%WILDLIFE MS: $100 → 32%NEW SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH: $500 → 19%SEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE: $1k → 15%ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $400 → 17%TEACH FOR AMERICA: $500 → 18%TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 27%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASH COUNTY: $3k → 27%TRINITY METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 27%TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 27%JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE: $2k → 27%GREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL: $1k → 27%DELTA CENTER STAGE: $1k → 27%MACE BLUES FEST: $1k → 27%JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE: $750 → 27%GREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL: $750 → 27%JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE: $650 → 27%DELTA COTTON BELLES: $500 → 27%YMCA: $500 → 27%MACE BLUES FEST: $500 → 27%JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE: $500 → 27%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $300 → 27%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $120 → 27%WASHINGTON SCHOOL: $100 → 27%ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $80 → 27%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Howard & Carole Brent Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in MS; by stated purpose, 69%.

Howard & Carole Brent Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16k · 9 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$16k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JA
    JUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • GA
    GREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +24%
  • Teach for America Inc
    2× · 2021–2023 · $2k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASH COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • WM
    WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPIgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +84%
  • DC
    DELTA CENTER STAGE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +13%
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
Delta Council

Improvement of the business conditions of agriculture and trade in the mississippi delta communities and in industrial development in the mississippi delta

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2
Greenwood Little Theatre

Promotion of Dramatic Arts in Mississippi Delta region

Arts & Culture
3
Dauphin Island Heritage & Arts Council Inc

Our vision is to emphasize, celebrate and showcase dauphin island's rich history, heritage and artistic talent, and to reach and serve every member of our community by providing opportunities for expression, appreciation, education and…

Arts & Culture
4
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-south creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
5
Gulfport Little Theatre Inc

Provide live theatre for all ages and abilities

—
6
Louisiana Friends Against Childhood Cancer Inc

Louisiana friends against childhood cancer is organized and it shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational including fund raising, promotional, and other functions to encourage the treatment and early detection of…

Health
7
Delta Wildlife Inc

Preserve, restore and enhance wildlife habitat and wildlife resources in the mississippi delta region

Environment
8
St Judes Children Cancer Awarenedd Corp
Health
9
Greenville Theatre Arts Center
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10
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alabama

The make-a-wish foundation of alabama creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
11
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
12
Greenwood Mississippi Cemetery Association

Operate and maintain a cemetery

Membership Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Mississippi Chartered; the most unlike its peers is Jesse Brent-Merrick Jones Memorial. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 26 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherTRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE INC: $3,400 · OtherJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASH COUNTY: $2,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WASH COUNTYTRINITY METHODIST CHURCH: $2,450 · OtherTRINITY METHODIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDELTA CENTER STAGE INC: $1,050 · OtherDRS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1,000 · OtherSEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE: $1,000 · Other+8 more: $2,250 · Other+8 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,400 · HealthST JUDE C…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED: $550 · HealthMAKE-A-WI…DELTA COTTON BELLES INC: $500 · HealthDELTA COT…WILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $2,000 · AnimalsGREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTeach for America Inc: $1,500 · EducationTHE STEVE AZAR ST CECILIA FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationCAMP LOOKING GLASS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesJESSE BRENT-MERRICK JONES MEMORIAL: $700 · PhilanthropyWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 · International
Other$20,150Health$2,450Animals$2,000Arts & Culture$2,000Education$2,000Human Services$1,000Philanthropy$700International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUNIOR AUXILIARY OF GREENVILLE INC: $3,400 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWILDLIFE MISSISSIPPI: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE ARTS COUNCIL: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA CENTER STAGE INC: $1,050 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP LOOKING GLASS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJESSE BRENT-MERRICK JONES MEMORIAL: $700 over 2y, 100% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI CHARTERED: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STEVE AZAR ST CECILIA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELTA COTTON BELLES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Reed Family Charitabl…The Straddlefork Foun…Clint and Ellen Ann J…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Reed Family Charitable FoundationMS15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Reed Family Charitable Foundation · The Straddlefork Foundation · Clint and Ellen Ann Johnson Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Howard & Carole Brent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard & Carole Brent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Howard & Carole Brent Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Howard & Carole Brent Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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