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M and A Brown Family Foundation at a glance

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M and A Brown 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.

$575k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.9MHealth$1.3MScience & Tech$265kEnvironment$125kArts & Culture$102kHuman Services$77kFood & Nutrition$65kPublic Benefit$48kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $510k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Peconic Bay Medical Foundation$125,000
UT Southwestern Medical$100,000
Uplift Education$100,000
UT Southwestern Medical$75,000
University of Pennsylvania$60,000
Episcopal School of Dallas$50,000
KERA$25,000
United To Learn$25,000
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gard$10,000
Perot Museum of Nature Science$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Covenant House: $6k → 17%Mount Sinai Health System: $25k → 17%Jewish Family Svc of G Dallas: $25k → 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

IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 18 repeat orgs$544k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$3.0M
$334k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+34%

Still filing today

72%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentScience & TechOther
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

  • UE
    UPLIFT EDUCATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $984k · revenue +102%
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +34%
  • TL
    THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $180k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • LS
    LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -21%
  • TD
    THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +90%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…

—
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Royal Society Inc. 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

30 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. 30 of the 41 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
22/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPLIFT EDUCATION: $984,182 · EducationUPLIFT EDUCATIONTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $385,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIATHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $180,000 · EducationTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL+6 more: $171,000 · Education+6 moreUT Southwestern Medical Center: $825,000 · OtherUT Southwestern Medical CenterPeconic Bay Medical Foundation: $215,000 · OtherPeconic Bay Medical FoundationTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $190,000 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INCLIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherLIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATIONNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $65,413 · Other+13 more: $173,866 · Other+13 moreUT SOUTHWESTERN HEALTH SYSTEMS: $175,000 · HealthPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $32,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $95,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $17,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $92,000 · EnvironmentDaily Acts Organization: $32,500 · EnvironmentMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $6,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,000 · Philanthropy
Education$1,720,182Other$1,619,279Health$212,000Arts & Culture$197,000Environment$124,500Human Services$56,000Philanthropy$17,000

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 budgetUPLIFT EDUCATION: $984,182 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $385,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC: $190,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL: $180,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $92,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $65,413 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHeartwood Educational Collaborative: $45,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetEDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES INC: $33,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetDaily Acts Organization: $32,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPARKLAND FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDALLAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDALLAS THEATER CENTER: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY CANCER COALITION KIDNEYCAN: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 13% 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.

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 Eugene McDermott …The Addy FoundationTexas Instruments Fou…Hillcrest FoundationVin and Caren Prothro…The Dallas FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Communities Foundatio…The Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
The Eugene McDermott FoundationTX15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 M and A Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M and A Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to M and A Brown 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 41 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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