· Public charity
Obadiah Browns Benevolent Fund
"To receive and appropriate to benevolent purposes, annually, principally for the benefit of our religious society, so that it may be for the Honour of Trueth, as well as otherwise spreading our Religious Principles where they are little known." from the 1823 Will of Obadiah M.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $115,902 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $130,472 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,570 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wellesley Friends Meeting | $32,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,842 |
| Dover Friends Meeting | $10,000 |
| Moses Brown School | $10,000 |
| West Brattleboro Quaker Worship Group | $10,000 |
| Greater Philadelphia Film Office | $8,050 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Barclay Press | $5,500 |
| Beacon Hill Friends House | $5,400 |
| Friends Camp | $5,110 |
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 (FY22–22, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- WFWELLESLEY FRIENDS MEETING INC4× · 2022–2025 · $90k
- NENEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS3× · 2021–2024 · $55k
- BHBEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- WHWOOLMAN HILL INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -48%
- FCFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +93%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $12k
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.
Friends school is an independent, coeducational, quaker day school.
Provide participatory residential experience based on the religious society of friends principles, in communal household, at moderate cost; meeting space; silent meetings and communal meals; and public education and outreach
Our yearly meeting helps local quaker communities find meaning and purpose through interconnection and engagement in a larger network of friends. shared endeavors are good ways to engage with others, and there are many ways of working…
Friends center corporation seeks to be a place that nurtures awareness of the presence of god, enlivens work for peace and justice, and invites the highest aspirations of the human spirit. as an expression of the beliefs and testimonies of…
FASE seeks to provide quality residential, social and health services to the elderly, emphasizing independence, group initiatives and quaker values of integrity, equality, peace, community and simplicity.
The school's mission is to provide challenging academics in a diverse environment, drawing on the quaker testimonies, or values, of simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship to empower students to go out into the…
Friends place on capitol hill is a welcoming space that offers hospitality centered in peace, civic education, and justice-based advocacy for learners and leaders of all ages.
Lobby and influence the california legislature in accordance with the values, faith and religious practices of the religious society of friends (quakers).
Friends western school rests in the foundation provided by the quaker belief that there is an inner light in each of us. this idea inspires the ethos of support, encouragement, respect and kindness that is evident at friends western. we…
Provide Quaker based education
Quaker Haven exists to support youth and family ministries of Indiana and Western Yearly Meetings of the Religious Society of Friends and the wider body of Christ. Most significant activities are summer youth camping programs, hosting…
Preservation of the 1758 Randolph Friends Meeting House and Cemetery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quaker Voluntary Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dartmouth Historical and Arts 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.
11 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. 11 of the 32 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 BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Quaker Voluntary Service Inc ↗
- Who funds WOOLMAN HILL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS PEACE TEAMS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND FAMILY PROMISE ↗
- Who funds DARTMOUTH HISTORICAL AND ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEVERDE FRIENDS U S INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Film Office ↗
- Who funds BARCLAY PRESS 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: Thomas H & Mary Williams Shoemaker Fd · Friends Fiduciary Corporation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Obadiah Browns Benevolent Fund 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.
- Dartmouth Historical and Arts Society Inc — 61% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 5% 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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