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· Private foundation

James Graham Brown Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$26MCommunity Improvement$9.1MHousing & Shelter$7.8MPhilanthropy$6.9MHuman Services$5.6MArts & Culture$5.3MRecreation & Sports$5.0MHealth$4.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+23 grants · $14M
$205,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$391M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RITA JUNE FOUNDATION$1,500,000
KENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM$1,025,000
KENTUCKY COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION$1,000,000
FEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES$880,625
LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$755,000
PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE$750,000
AMPED$750,000
CENTRE COLLEGE$749,419
THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC$575,000
KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC$550,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$536,286
YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE$500,000
AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER$500,000
J B SPEED ART MUSEUM$500,000
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION$500,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PAYNE HOLLOW ON THE OHIO INC: $15k → 4%CABBAGE PATCH SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC: $97k → 15%HOSPARUS INC: $500k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $350k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $75k → 15%SPONSOR 4 SUCCESS: $240k → 15%SPONSOR 4 SUCCESS: $100k → 15%JOSHUA COMMUNITY CONNECTORS INC: $50k → 15%SOUTHWEST FAMILY MINISTRIES: $15k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $1.5M → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $350k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $250k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $150k → 15%THE HOPE BUSS INC: $15k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $125k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $125k → 15%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $125k → 15%RITA JUNE FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $500k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLE: $250k → 15%GLOBAL ECONOMIC DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $175k → 15%GLOBAL ECONOMIC DIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $175k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
OR
IN
KY
VA
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54M · 66 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
77

Total granted

$54M
$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+19%

Still filing today

88%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +13%
  • CC
    CENTRE COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +53%
  • TL
    THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2.3M · revenue +97% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M
  • WP
    WATERFRONT PARK FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M
  • LM
    LOUISVILLE METRO HOUSING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
2
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
3
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

—
4
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
5
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
6
Louisville Collegiate School

Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.

Education
7
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
8
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

—
9
Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc

The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.

Community Improvement
10
Kentucky Bankers Association

To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…

—
11
American Dairy Association of Kentucky

Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.

—
12
One Nky Alliance Inc

Our mission is to transform northern kentucky by uniting and mobilizing community leaders around initiatives that produce tangible, measureable results.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Louisville Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kentucky Chess Ambassadors. 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

136 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. 136 of the 158 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
134/136
Grantees still filing
94/136
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY: $3,100,000 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKYUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE: $2,027,695 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLEWATERFRONT PARK FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · OtherWATERFRONT PARK FOUNDATION INCWELLSPRING INC: $1,550,000 · OtherTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,541,500 · OtherEVOLVE502 INC: $1,461,822 · OtherKENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM CORPORATION: $1,171,500 · OtherPARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,450,000 · Other+68 more: $17,154,105 · Other+68 moreUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,115,445 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOU…CENTRE COLLEGE: $5,049,323 · EducationCENTRE COLLEGEKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,709,112 · EducationKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHN…Simmons College of Kentucky Inc: $1,390,225 · EducationSimmons College of Kentucky …TEACH KENTUCKY INC: $1,075,000 · EducationBEREA COLLEGE: $1,000,000 · EducationLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO: $755,000 · Education+20 more: $4,893,121 · Education+20 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $2,860,350 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNI…FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $2,451,100 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION …METRO UNITED WAY INC: $1,300,000 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITE…THE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $1,107,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER …+4 more: $517,390 · Philanthropy+4 moreTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $2,250,000 · Human ServicesTHE LOUISV…RITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 · Human ServicesRITA JUNE …the Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $750,000 · Human Servicesthe Young …FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $575,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & C…YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADUL…HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH: $500,000 · Human ServicesHOSPARUS I…JEWISH FAMILY & CAREER SERVICES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $425,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $375,000 · Human ServicesGLOBAL ECONOMIC DIVERSITY DEVELOPME: $350,000 · Human ServicesSPONSOR 4 SUCCESS INC: $340,000 · Human Services+5 more: $192,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $2,550,000 · Community ImprovementONEWEST CORPORATION: $1,623,666 · Community ImprovementTHE GREATER LOUISVILLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $900,000 · Community ImprovementMAYFIELD GRAVES LTRG INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $250,000 · Community Improvement+5 more: $250,000 · Community ImprovementADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUM: $1,003,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND INC: $380,700 · Arts & CultureMUHAMMAD ALI MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER: $290,000 · Arts & CultureKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureOWSLEY BROWN FRAZIER HISTORICAL ARMS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureKMAC MUSEUM: $225,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $175,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY: $1,437,500 · Housing & ShelterFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC: $1,130,625 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $600,000 · Housing & ShelterSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF LOUISVILLE INC: $278,700 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF METRO LOUISVILLE: $275,000 · Housing & ShelterUSA CARES INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE INC: $225,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ORIENTED MINISTRIES ESTABLISHED FOR SERVIC: $225,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$31,456,622Education$20,987,226Philanthropy$8,236,340Human Services$7,757,000Community Improvement$6,573,666Arts & Culture$4,798,700Housing & Shelter$4,436,825

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC: $5,115,445 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCENTRE COLLEGE: $5,049,323 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $2,860,350 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $2,550,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $2,451,100 over 5y, 12% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $2,250,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetKENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC: $1,709,112 over 4y, 19% of budgetONEWEST CORPORATION: $1,623,666 over 3y, 46% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $1,550,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,541,500 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetRITA JUNE FOUNDATION INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC: $1,461,822 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetPARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,450,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY: $1,437,500 over 2y, 45% of budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $1,390,225 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $1,300,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetKENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUM CORPORATION: $1,171,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetFEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISES INC: $1,130,625 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE: $1,107,500 over 5y, 31% of budgetTEACH KENTUCKY INC: $1,075,000 over 3y, 45% of budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $1,003,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GREATER LOUISVILLE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD INC: $900,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS HOUSING CORPORATION: $900,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO: $755,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetthe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Louisville Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetISAAC W BERNHEIM FOUNDATION: $746,180 over 2y, 13% of budgetLOUISVILLE COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER INC DBA CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOODS: $725,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetFAMILY SCHOLAR HOUSE INC: $600,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILIES LEARNING INC: $600,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAlabama Forest Land Trust Inc: $595,244 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $580,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $575,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $525,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetLOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN: $508,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetLOUISVILLE ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNIT: $500,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetKENTUCKIANAWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMAYFIELD GRAVES LTRG INC: $500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetMOUNTAIN ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $500,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKENTUCKY NATURAL LANDS TRUST INC: $500,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetKENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $500,000 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.

The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Snowy Owl Foundation …Sociable Weaver Found…C E and S Foundation …Metro United Way IncCralle Foundation IncRepublic Bank Foundat…
The Gheens Foundation IncKY170.2× affinity84 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · C E and S Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    40report 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 158 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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