· Private foundation
James A and Martha R Brown Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $100
- $10k–50k4 grants · $117k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $692k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Georgetown College | $1,000,000 |
| Lexington Community Radio dba RadioLEX | $200,000 |
| CynthianaHarrison County Economic Development Authority Inc | $150,000 |
| Harrison Memorial Hospital | $100,000 |
| The Bridge Adaptive Sports & Recreation | $98,066 |
| Bluegrass Community Foundation | $90,784 |
| Central Music Academy | $52,675 |
| The Kentucky Trooper Outreach Inc | $40,500 |
| ENRICH Corp | $30,958 |
| Milestones Inc | $26,039 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Lexington Humane Society | $100 |
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 (FY23–23, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k 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
- GCGEORGETOWN COLLEGE4× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +29%
- HMHARRISON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +46%
- TCTHE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $153k · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- MUMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +15%
- LPLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +8%
- KFKentucky FFA Foundationone grant, 2022 · $300k
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.
Provide services & meals to the elderly.
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
We provide food (free of charge) to our community neighbors (jessamine co. ky) who are in need.
Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.
The organization operates a fire department for the residents of laurel county, kentucky.
The gentry house, inc. is an emergency transitional homeless shelter to help families with children in the region of murray and calloway county, ky. residents are given rent and utility assistance.
Building houses for low income families through grants and no interest loans.
To provide affordable housing and financing to low income families.
Community healthcare providing inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services for residents of southeastern kentucky. the organization ceased operations on july 31, 2019.
To eliminate substandard housing in the tri-county area of marion, nelson and washington by building homes for low income families
Low income housing construction and renovation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Trooper Outreach Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HARRISON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION ↗
- Who funds HELPING HOUNDS FIND HOMESINC ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY TROOPER OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds HARRISON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ENRICH CORP ↗
- Who funds TROOPER ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 James A and Martha R Brown Charitable Foundation Inc 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.