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Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation
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: 62% of NORMAN & ELIZABETH BROWN FAMILY CHARITABLE CORPORATION’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 · $38k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,880 |
| GEORGETOWN COLLEGE | $29,307 |
| THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON | $20,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE BISHOP SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,750 |
| HOPE CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SURGERY ON SUNDAY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| THE MADEIRA SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA LACROSSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 29% of Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 20 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k 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
- GCGEORGETOWN COLLEGE2× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +29%
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC3× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +109%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC2× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- WFWENDELL FOSTER HOMEone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SSSAYRE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +41%
- BCBASCOM CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTSone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited 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 53 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 57 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 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 - OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds The League Club 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · William T Young Foundation Inc · Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation)
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 Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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