How much did OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2023?

Arts & Culture$12MEducation$6.4MEnvironment$1.4MHuman Services$705kRecreation & Sports$621kPhilanthropy$565kPublic Benefit$340kFood & Nutrition$282kCommunity Improvement$262kOther$8.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

honorariumstatue honorhonor billbill streetberrylouisville collegiatecorp

2019

staff studentorchestra musicianadvance preservationpreservation practicepractice louisvillelouisville collegiatepartnership louisville

2020

vanriver fieldsfields cleanupcleanup enhancementenhancement plandirector positionlouisville track

2021

sports learninglearning complexdirector positionfreesimmonschallengefuture

2022

legacies unlimitednature conservancylouisville climateclimate actionclinicpassionist earthearth spirit

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$50k–250k1 grant · $175k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$250,000

Median grant

States reached

$92M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC$250,000
KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN$175,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $705k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 71 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

71 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 69 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$29M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+34%

Still filing today

68%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

SA
SPEED ART MUSEUM
6× · 2017–2022 · $5.1M · revenue +128%
CF
CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS INC
6× · 2017–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +17% · 78% of their budget
KC
KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN
6× · 2018–2023 · $1.7M · revenue +166%

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
one grant, 2019 · $330k · revenue -31%
RF
RIVER FIELDS INC
one grant, 2020 · $260k · revenue -66% · 86% of their budget
PM
PORTLAND MUSEUM INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +249%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

University of Louisville Athletic Association

The University of Louisville Athletic Association is organized to develop intercollegiate athletic teams composed of students of the University of Louisville and to schedule and manage intercollegiate athletic contests, all in the harmony…

Recreation & Sports

University of Louisville Real Estate

To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey property (see schedule o) for the benefit of the university of louisville.

Philanthropy

Kentucky Public Radio Inc

Louisville public media (lpm) is an independent, community-supported nonprofit serving our community on the web, on the radio, through podcasts and community events. lpm includes three public radio stations and an investigative unit.

Arts & Culture

Kentucky Humanities Council Inc

The kentucky humanities council is dedicated to telling kentucky's story through programs and services that create a legacy of pride in the wealth of kentucky's culture, building civic engagement, and supporting local humanities programs…

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Louisville Nature Center Inc

The mission of the louisville nature center is to be a catalyst for conservation through environmental education and connection to nature for every person.

Environment

Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit

Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky

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American Civil Liberties Union of

The american civil liberties union of kentucky (aclu) is freedom'swatchdog, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities todefend the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people bythe constitutions of the united…

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Appalachian Citizens Law Center Inc

ACLC is a nonprofit law firm that engages in strategic litigation and policy work in the area of mine safety and health, environmental protection, legacy cost of extractive industries on the people, land and economy of the Central…

Crime & Legal

Kentucky Center for the Arts Foundation Inc

Solicitation and receipt of gifts grants and contributions from individuals groups corporations and other sources public and private to finance the capital operating and programming costs of The Kentucky Center for the Arts Corporation.

Arts & Culture

Wilderness Louisville Inc

We are stewards of natural areas and champions of nature education, recreation, and youth. our mission is to provide and sustain quality natural spaces in louisville and ensure there is equitable access for the community.

Environment

Kentucky Center for Public Service Journalism

To provide news and explanatory journalism in the public interest special reporting projects of an informative nature and to build a model on line newspaper others can replicate

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisville Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Speed Art Museum. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 35 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/95

the rest of the field

10%

2,100/20,223

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.

05the grantee network

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

85/87

Grantees still filing

57/87

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$11,739,749Other$9,466,999Education$6,386,932Environment$1,389,869Human Services$705,036Recreation & Sports$621,000Philanthropy$565,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation OfKY109× affinity57 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Of · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic · Brown-Forman Foundation · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc

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 organisation OWSLEY BROWN II 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEGACIES UNLIMITED.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 050569289 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEGACIES UNLIMITED, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 88% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

OWSLEY BROWN II FAMILY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

87 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph