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Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Arts & Culture$648kEducation$154kReligion$146kPhilanthropy$118kPublic Benefit$68kHuman Services$46kFood & Nutrition$35kMembership Benefit$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOTB$50,000
EVERFREE MINISTRIES$40,000
Individual grant recipient$19,664
PUYALLUP FOOD BANK$10,000
FRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR$5,000
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$5,000
CARE NET OF PUDGET SOUND$5,000
TACOMA RESCUE MISSION$5,000
SEATTLE'S UNION GOSPEL MISSION$5,000
THE ART CENTER OF WACO$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,740
CTSEF$2,000
VANGUARD COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL$2,000
THE COVE$2,000
HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION$1,336
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 8%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $20k → 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $750 → 8%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $10k → 9%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $700 → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $300 → 8%PUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $1k → 9%FAMILY RESARCH COUNCIL: $200 → 14%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $500 → 16%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $1k → 16%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $200 → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $1k → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $100 → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $100 → 16%CARITAS OF WACO: $100 → 16%METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME: $100 → 16%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

WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
DC
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 115 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
129

Total granted

$1.1M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+22%

Still filing today

55%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
Arts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
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

  • FO
    FESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $183k · revenue +59%
  • WC
    WACO CREATIVE ART CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue ×20
  • CF
    COUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • ID
    INTERNATIONAL DEBUTANTE BALL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue ×2,586
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $16k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
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.

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2
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
3
The George Washington University

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…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
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
6
Westminster College

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…

Education
7
Witte Museum

The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.

Arts & Culture
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

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…

Social Science
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

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…

International
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
Washington & Jefferson College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

122 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. 122 of the 255 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/122
Grantees still filing
88/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM: $100,790 · OtherFRIENDS OF NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUMST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $87,550 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPAL CHURCHFOTB: $50,000 · OtherFOTBTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $38,900 · OtherTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTSST PAULS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL: $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR: $28,900 · OtherVANGUARD COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL: $23,550 · Other+133 more: $319,650 · Other+133 moreFESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS: $183,417 · Arts & CultureFESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOSWACO CREATIVE ART CENTER: $117,580 · Arts & CultureWACO CREATIVE ART CENTERCREATIVE WACO: $34,800 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE WACOFRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $14,300 · Arts & Culture+17 more: $48,009 · Arts & Culture+17 moreVANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $17,750 · EducationPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $13,000 · EducationKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $11,350 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $10,470 · EducationTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationMCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS: $8,430 · EducationMCLENNAN COUNTY PACK OF HOPE DBA PACK OF HOPE: $3,650 · Education+12 more: $8,000 · EducationCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $47,450 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $4,050 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,900 · Public Benefit+5 more: $1,550 · Public BenefitEVERFREE MINISTRIES: $40,000 · ReligionFUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE: $3,100 · Religion+3 more: $2,250 · ReligionPUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $31,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3,150 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $2,050 · Human ServicesCARITAS OF WACO: $1,300 · Human Services+1 more: $300 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND HOUSE: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$679,340Arts & Culture$398,106Education$82,650Public Benefit$54,950Religion$45,350Human Services$37,800Housing & Shelter$16,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS: $183,417 over 7y, 13% of budgetWACO CREATIVE ART CENTER: $117,580 over 7y, 14% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR NATIONAL POLICY: $47,450 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: $38,900 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE WACO: $34,800 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPUYALLUP FOOD BANK: $31,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $17,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION: $14,300 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL OF TEXAS: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA: $12,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA THETA FOUNDATION INC: $11,350 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HAND HOUSE: $11,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $10,470 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMARILLO COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS: $8,430 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWACO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,408 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS: $6,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWACO CIVIC THEATRE: $5,840 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC: $5,436 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $5,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $5,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SULGRAVE MANOR: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MCCLANE BROWN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCOMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO: $3,718 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMCLENNAN COUNTY PACK OF HOPE DBA PACK OF HOPE: $3,650 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD NEWS COMMUNICATIONS INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFUZZY FRIENDS RESCUE: $3,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $2,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWACO SYMPHONY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNBOUND NOW: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREIGN MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE: $2,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF WACO INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation: $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budget21 WILBERFORCE GLOBAL FREEDOM CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALLAS WOMANS CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,325 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCARITAS OF WACO: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas Cultural Trust Council: $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗

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 McClane Brown Fam…Waco FoundationCooper FoundationClifton FoundationThe Fentress Foundati…Bernard & Audre Rapop…Baylor UniversityHobbs FoundationFm and Gloria Young F…Bowen Family Foundati…Ascension ProvidenceCommunity Foundation …
The McClane Brown Family FoundationTX55.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Hht Foundation: 30% of income from government
  • The Denison Society Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 255 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home