· Private foundation
Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of MARGARET CB & S SPENCER N 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOTB | $50,000 |
| EVERFREE MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $19,664 |
| PUYALLUP FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR | $5,000 |
| TACOMA RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| CARE NET OF PUDGET SOUND | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE'S UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $5,000 |
| THE ART CENTER OF WACO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,740 |
| THE COVE | $2,000 |
| CTSEF | $2,000 |
| VANGUARD COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION | $1,336 |
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 (FY17–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +47% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
115 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 105 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- FOFESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS7× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +59%
- WCWACO CREATIVE ART CENTER7× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue ×20
- CFCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY5× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IDINTERNATIONAL DEBUTANTE BALL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue ×2,586
- FOFRIENDS OF THE NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $16k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas. 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.
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 46 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
122 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. 122 of the 255 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS ↗
- Who funds WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds EVERFREE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE WACO ↗
- Who funds PUYALLUP FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEBUTANTE BALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds KAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS ↗
- Who funds WACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WACO CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The McClane Brown Family Foundation · Waco Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Clifton Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Baylor University · Hobbs Foundation · Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundation · Bowen Family Foundation · Ascension Providence · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax
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 Margaret Cb & S Spencer N 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Hht Foundation — 30% of income from government
- The Denison Society Inc — 6% 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.