· Private foundation
Milton and Fannie Brown Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of MILTON AND FANNIE BROWN FAMILY 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 $10k30 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $346k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $36,000 |
| LONG ISLAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL MR JOHN BUCK | $20,000 |
| LONG ISLAND ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES SEAN LCALLAHAN | $15,000 |
| CITY HARVEST INC JENNIFER SZAPIRO | $15,000 |
| INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK | $15,000 |
| CENTRAL NASSAU GUIDANCE & COUNSELING SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $10,000 |
| CONCORDIA SEMINARY DR DALE A MEYER | $10,000 |
| ABBA LEADERSHIP CENTER | $10,000 |
| LONG ISLAND YOUTH MENTORING MR JOHN CRAGG | $10,000 |
| THE LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUTE ELLEN HOLMES | $10,000 |
| SISTERS OF THE ORDER OF SAINT DOMINIC MR ERIC KALT | $10,000 |
| ABBA LEADERSHIP CENTER | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 36% 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 +23% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 32 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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
- LILONG ISLAND YOUTH MENTORING INC5× · 2021–2025 · $92k · revenue +40%
- LILong Island Alzheimers and Dementia Center Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +17%
- TITHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SASalvation Army - Texasone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SJST JOSEPH'S RC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
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For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inclusive Sports and Fitness Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 126 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
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 ABBA LEADERSHIP CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds LONG ISLAND YOUTH MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Alzheimers and Dementia Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIVE SPORTS AND FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds The Ministry for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NASSAU GUIDANCE AND COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HARVEST LTD ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFETIDES INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Milton and Fannie Brown Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% 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.
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