· Private foundation
Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAPORTE COUNTY | $5,000 |
| DISCOVERY SCHOOL PAC | $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 |
| DUNEBROOK | $2,000 |
| WTTW | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LAPORTE COUNTY | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -9% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 86 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITY FOUNDATION OF LA PORTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PINES FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Arizona Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds Association for Iron and Steel Technology ↗
- Who funds VALPARAISO KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY SHORES VOLUNTEER FIREMEN I ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
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