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Keith N Browning Family Foundation

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.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$134kHealth$104kEducation$94kPhilanthropy$75kEnvironment$71kHuman Services$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$41kReligion$34kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$12,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE FOUNDATION$10,000
SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
THE DAYTON FOUNDATION INC - DECA$10,000
CULTURE WORKS$7,500
DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY$5,000
DAYTON CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON$5,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION$5,000
DAYBREAK INC$5,000
BRIGID'S PATH$5,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS - NATIONAL$2,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS - DAYTON CHAPTER$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Secret Smiles of Dayton: $1k → 14%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $1k → 14%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $1k → 14%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $1k → 14%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $1k → 14%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $1k → 14%Secret Smiles of Dayton: $1k → 14%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $1k → 14%SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $1k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $6k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $6k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $6k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $5k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $5k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $5k → 14%DAYBREAK INC: $5k → 14%Daybreak Inc: $3k → 14%Daybreak Inc: $1k → 14%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

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MA
OH
CT
KY
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MD
DC
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$631k · 28 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
3

Total granted

$631k
$16k

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalEducationOther
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

  • DC
    DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +140%
  • CW
    CULTURE WORKS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +81%
  • MACALESTER COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • DF
    DECA for Dayton Early College Academy
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TD
    THE DAYTON FOUNDATION INC - COVID-19 RESPONSE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • WM
    Wright Memorial Library Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce

The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.

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2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
University of Dayton

The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…

Education
6
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
7
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
8
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
9
The Adler Planetarium

The adler planetarium ('adler') is a not-for-profit cultural institution whose mission is to connect people to the universe and each other under the sky we all share. it aspires to be the world's premier center for engaging in astronomy…

Arts & Culture
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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11
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
12
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dayton Children's Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. 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

15 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. 15 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DAYTON FOUNDATION INC - DECA: $74,500 · OtherTHE DAYTON FOUNDATION INC - DECAWRIGHT MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY: $33,500 · OtherWRIGHT MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $23,000 · OtherST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHAMERICAN RED CROSS - DAYTON CHAPTER: $14,000 · OtherTrout Unlimited: $11,000 · OtherSt Paul Episcopal Church: $11,000 · OtherTHE OAKWOOD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFriends Of DECA #3637: $10,000 · OtherDECA for Dayton Early College Academy: $10,000 · OtherDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $24,500 · OtherDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC+9 more: $43,500 · Other+9 moreDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $49,525 · HealthDAYTON CHILDREN'…BRIGID'S PATH INC: $34,000 · HealthBRIGID'S PATH IN…MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthMIAMI VALLEY HOS…CULTURE WORKS: $47,500 · Arts & CultureCULTURE WORK…FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON: $18,750 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF L…NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUB…DAYBREAK INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesDAYBREAK I…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $14,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesSECRET SMI…SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $31,000 · EnvironmentSANIBEL-CA…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $29,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS B…Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation: $45,000 · InternationalMACALESTER COLLEGE: $39,500 · Education
Other$290,000Health$96,025Arts & Culture$71,250Human Services$63,000Environment$60,000International$45,000Education$39,500

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 budgetDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $49,525 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURE WORKS: $47,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetDayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation: $45,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetDAYBREAK INC: $40,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $39,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGID'S PATH INC: $34,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $29,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON: $18,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds CULTURE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DAYBREAK INC ↗
  • Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BRIGID'S PATH INC ↗
  • Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds DING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILION DAYTON ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds MIAMI VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECRET SMILES OF DAYTON INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗

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 Dayton FoundationOH19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Bill and Jackie Lockwood Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Mathile Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Keith N Browning Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Keith N Browning Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 37%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Keith N Browning Family 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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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