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L P Brown 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2022
46
Grants FY2022
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Environment$1.6MHealth$155kCivil Rights$100kEducation$85kPhilanthropy$80kCommunity Improvement$70kCrime & Legal$55kInternational$30kOther$0
02FY2022 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k12 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $520k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $500k
$15,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES$100,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - CO & WY$100,000
COLORADO OPEN LANDS$100,000
WILD SALMON CENTER$50,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY$50,000
COLUMBIA LAND TRUST$50,000
WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY$50,000
COMMUNITY BUILDERS$40,000
SNOW LION EDUCATION AND FAMILY SERVICES$40,000
COBALT ABORTION FUND$35,000
VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER$30,000
RAZOM FOR UKRAINE$30,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS$25,000
PEOPLE OF THE SACRED LAND$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN: $15k → 14%HIGHER LEARNING U INC: $3k → 8%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
WA
NY
MA
OR
SD
CA
CO
MD
NM
TN
DC

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.

03Your field

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.

1
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

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2
Boulder Watershed Collective

The Boulder Watershed Collective is a 501c3 non-profit stakeholder-driven organization established to address forested watershed health,resiliency and stewardship. We have three program areas: ClimateAdaptation and Resilience Watershed…

Environment
3
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
7
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
8
Conservation Legacy

Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…

Youth Development
9
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
10
Water Protector Legal Collective

The water protector legal collective is an indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for indigenous peoples and original nations, the earth, and climate justice movements.

Crime & Legal
11
Intertribal Agriculture Council

The intertribal agriculture council was founded in 1987 to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources of american indian and alaska native tribes.

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12
Aia Colorado

AIA Colorado,is the voice of the architecture profession in Colorado. Through advocacy, leadership development, education and resources for architects, the organization supports architecture professionals in designing a better world where…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ndn Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Aleut Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%3%<5yr15%18%5–10yr21%18%10–20yr17%18%20–35yr12%36%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%3%<5yr15%8%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr12%57%35–55yr13%6%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
4,367/33,380

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - CO & WY — $100,000 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY - CO & WYCOLUMBIA LAND TRUST — $50,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA LAND TRUSTSNOW LION EDUCATION & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $40,000 · OtherSNOW LION EDUCATION & FAMILY SERVICES INCMISSION WOLF — $20,000 · OtherALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RECOVERY FUND — $15,000 · OtherMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc — $15,000 · OtherMOVEMENT FOR BLACK LIVES — $15,000 · OtherCOBALT FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherCOBALT FOUNDATIONROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $25,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INCRAZOM INC — $30,000 · OtherRAZOM INCCOALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN — $15,000 · Other+14 more — $75,000 · Other+14 moreCOLORADO OPEN LANDS — $100,000 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDSWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY — $50,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CONSER…FIBERSHED — $20,000 · EnvironmentFIBERSHEDMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 · EnvironmentMESA COUNTY LAND CONS…RESOURCE CENTRAL — $15,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCE CENTRALWestern Resource Advocates — $100,000 · Crime & LegalWestern Resource…VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER — $40,000 · Crime & LegalVIOLENCE POLICY …GRIP TRAINING INSTITUTE — $15,000 · Crime & LegalGRIP TRAINING IN…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $60,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY …Solidaire Network Inc — $20,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire …CHINOOK FUND INC — $15,000 · PhilanthropyCHINOOK FU…COMMUNITY BUILDERS — $40,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY…PEOPLE OF THE SACRED LAND — $25,000 · Community ImprovementPEOPLE OF…NDN COLLECTIVE INC — $15,000 · Community ImprovementNDN COLLE…BEAR PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementBEAR PROJ…WILD SALMON CENTER — $50,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $25,000 · EducationThe Aleut Foundation — $10,000 · EducationARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education
Other$435,000Environment$205,000Crime & Legal$155,000Philanthropy$95,000Community Improvement$85,000Animals$50,000Education$45,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDERS — $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSNOW LION EDUCATION & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetVIOLENCE POLICY CENTER — $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOBALT FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRAZOM INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE OF THE SACRED LAND — $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIBERSHED — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGRIP TRAINING INSTITUTE — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHINOOK FUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOALITION TO STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST NATIVE WOMEN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESOURCE CENTRAL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aleut Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTHWORKS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEAR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSpirit of the Sun Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIST CANYON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…ImpactassetsincThe Colorado Health F…The Denver FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Community Foundation …Rose Community Founda…Lederer FoundationTides FoundationGates Family Foundati…Brett Family Foundati…The Women's Foundatio…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · Lederer Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Brett Family Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc

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 L P Brown Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines