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James A and Martha R Brown Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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James A and Martha R Brown Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$5.8MHealth$1.7MPhilanthropy$651kArts & Culture$353kCommunity Improvement$150kRecreation & Sports$98kAnimals$91kFood & Nutrition$88kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $100
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $692k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$90,784
Median grant
2
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Harrison County Commission on Aging Inc: $32k → 15%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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 7 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$5.0M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+15%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterReligionOther
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

  • GC
    GEORGETOWN COLLEGE
    4× · 2019–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +29%
  • HM
    HARRISON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +56%
  • TC
    THE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $153k · revenue +23% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • MU
    MIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +15%
  • LP
    LEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +8%
  • KF
    Kentucky FFA Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
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
Harrison County Council On Aging

Provide services & meals to the elderly.

Human Services
2
Kentucky Equine Humane Center Inc

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.

Animals
3
Jessamine Co Food Pantry

We provide food (free of charge) to our community neighbors (jessamine co. ky) who are in need.

Food & Nutrition
4
Kentucky Industrial Development Council

Development and educational opportunities to promote industrial and economic development in kentucky.

Community Improvement
5
Laurel County Fire Department Inc

The organization operates a fire department for the residents of laurel county, kentucky.

Public Safety & Disaster
6
The Gentry House Inc

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.

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7
Fulton Hickman Co Habitat for Humanity Ky Inc

Building houses for low income families through grants and no interest loans.

Housing & Shelter
8
Habitat for Humanity Pennyrile Region Inc

To provide affordable housing and financing to low income families.

Housing & Shelter
9
Animal Alliance of East Kentucky Inc
Animals
10
Highlands Hospital Corporation Dba Highlands Regional Medical Center

Community healthcare providing inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services for residents of southeastern kentucky. the organization ceased operations on july 31, 2019.

Health
11
My New Kentucky Home Habitat for Humanity

To eliminate substandard housing in the tri-county area of marion, nelson and washington by building homes for low income families

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12
Kentucky Mountain Housing Development Corporation Inc

Low income housing construction and renovation

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lexington Humane Society; 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.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $3,000,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN COLLEGEMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $2,000,000 · EducationMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGELEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500,000 · EducationLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARYHARRISON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $1,600,000 · HealthHARRISON MEMORIAL HO…MILESTONES INC: $78,789 · HealthKentucky FFA Foundation: $300,000 · OtherKentucky FFA …Lexington Community Radio dba RadioLEX: $200,000 · OtherLexington Com…CynthianaHarrison County Economic Development Authority Inc: $150,000 · OtherCynthianaHarr…THE BRIDGE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION: $98,066 · OtherTHE BRIDGE AD…Individual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherTOGETHER WE GROW INC: $37,500 · OtherHARRISON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,000 · OtherKENTUCKY TROOPER OUTREACH INC: $40,500 · Other+6 more: $155,658 · Other+6 moreBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $650,784 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $152,675 · Arts & CultureHELPING HOUNDS FIND HOMESINC: $90,509 · Animals+1 more: $100 · AnimalsFOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $66,500 · Housing & Shelter
Education$5,500,000Health$1,678,789Other$1,071,724Philanthropy$650,784Arts & Culture$152,675Animals$90,609Housing & Shelter$66,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGEORGETOWN COLLEGE: $3,000,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $2,000,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHARRISON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $1,600,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $650,784 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLEXINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE CENTRAL MUSIC ACADEMY INC: $152,675 over 2y, 32% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ADAPTIVE SPORTS & RECREATION: $98,066 over 1y, 18% of budgetHELPING HOUNDS FIND HOMESINC: $90,509 over 2y, 31% of budgetMILESTONES INC: $78,789 over 2y, 17% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $66,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHARRISON COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetKENTUCKY TROOPER OUTREACH INC: $40,500 over 1y, 42% of budgetHARRISON COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING INC: $31,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetENRICH CORP: $30,958 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTROOPER ISLAND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLEXINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Blue Grass Community …The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncThe Pfizer Foundation…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 James A and Martha R Brown Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James A and Martha R Brown Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%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
    6report 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.

    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 24 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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