· Private foundation
Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of LEONARD J AND IRENE BROWN FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAPORTE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| DISCOVERY SCHOOL PAC | $5,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST | $5,000 |
| DUNES LEATHERNECKS DETACHMENT 1056 | $4,500 |
| VALPARAISO KIWANIS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HOOSIER VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| PSI IOTA XI | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAPORTE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| WTTW | $2,000 |
| DUNEBROOK | $2,000 |
| CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +16% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +25%
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC3× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +66%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +273%
Funded once
- DCDISCOVERY CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
- NDNORTH DALLAS YOUNG LIFEone grant, 2023 · $6k
- PFPURDUE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
Indiana united way is the leading voice to advocate, engage, and partner with a strong united way network and key stakeholders to advance human well-being throughout indiana.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To foster and encourage private philanthropic giving, to enhance the spirit of community, and to improve the quality of life in the wayne county, indiana, area now and for future generations.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
An agribusiness network advocate, representing members' interests within all levels of government and keeping members informed of the latest industry trends and news.
Strengthen companies in the kinzie industrial corridor and facilitate economic and community development by providing services and incubator space.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity Foundation of La Porte County and the most unlike its peers is Pines Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 86 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER LAPORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds PINES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Association for Iron and Steel Technology ↗
- Who funds VALPARAISO KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY SHORES VOLUNTEER FIREMEN I ↗
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: Nisource Charitable Foundation · John W Anderson Foundation · Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc · Unity Foundation of la Porte County · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · The Barker Welfare Foundation · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Duneland Health Council · United Way of Greater Laporte County Inc · Patrick a & Mary B O'Neil Foundation · Michigan City Community Enrichment Corporation · Early Learning Indiana 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 Leonard J and Irene Brown 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.