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Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
39
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
28 to 39
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$83k26%
FY202339$61k36%
FY202233$57k48%
FY202136$51k53%
FY202028$52kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$75kHealth$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$33kArts & Culture$27kYouth Development$26kFood & Nutrition$21kPhilanthropy$20kHousing & Shelter$19kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
ID
IL
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
NE
VA
AZ
KS
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Community Pads Inc: $13,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of la Porte County Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Laporte County Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDunebrook Inc: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIvy Tech Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Northwest Indiana Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens Concerned for the Homeless Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWindow to the World Communications Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPines Fire Department Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation for Iron and Steel Technology: $3,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValparaiso Kiwanis Club Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBeverly Shores Volunteer Firemen I: $3,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHoosier Valley Railroad Museum Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHilltop Neighborhood House Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Dayton Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichiana Humane Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakeshore Paws Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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.

Nisource Charitable FoundationOH22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc

How much does Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc give?
Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc reported 31 grants totaling $82,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (16%), Public Safety & Disaster (11%).
Who are Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Heart Association Inc ($26k), Interfaith Community Pads Inc ($14k), Boys & Girls Clubs of la Porte County Inc ($13k).
Does Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nisource Charitable Foundation, John W Anderson Foundation, Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc.
Where is Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc based?
Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc is based in IN.

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 86 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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