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Patricia Crail Brown Foundation at a glance

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Patricia Crail Brown Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$158k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$539kPhilanthropy$157kArts & Culture$98kCommunity Improvement$95kRecreation & Sports$95kEducation$61kCrime & Legal$51kAnimals$48kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION$80,000
FAMILY ENTERPRISE USA$20,000
KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$11,253
JUNE LAKE LOOP WOMEN'S CLUB$10,000
BODIE FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM$7,000
HIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME$7,000
BARC$4,000
MONO COUNTY SHERIFF SEARCH AND RESCUE$3,000
CALIFORNIA LIVING MUSEUM FOUNDATION$2,000
THE CAT PEOPLE$2,000
KERN LITERACY COUNCIL$2,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC OF ORANGE COUNTY: $9k → 10%JUNE LAKE LOOP WOMEN'S CLUB: $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INSTIT: $9k → 14%KEEPERS OF THE KERN INC: $5k → 18%FAMILY ENTERPRISE USA: $20k → 14%HIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME: $13k → 10%NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $5k → 9%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%JUNE LAKE LOOP WOMEN'S CLUB: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INSTIT: $9k → 14%KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%FAMILY ENTERPRISE USA: $15k → 14%HIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME: $8k → 10%CALIFORNIA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INSTIT: $8k → 14%KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%FAMILY ENTERPRISE USA: $10k → 14%HIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME: $8k → 10%SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $7k → 14%HIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME: $7k → 10%JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE: $60k → 14%KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11k → 18%FAMILY ENTERPRISE USA: $10k → 14%HIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME: $6k → 10%JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE: $60k → 14%BARC: $10k → 18%NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $7k → 14%JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE: $60k → 14%BARC: $10k → 18%BODIE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE: $60k → 14%BODIE FOUNDATION: $20k → 10%SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATI: $60k → 14%BODIE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE: $60k → 14%BODIE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE: $50k → 14%BODIE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BODIE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BODIE FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 18%KERN LITERACY COUNCIL: $10k → 18%KERN LITERACY COUNCIL: $10k → 18%KERN LITERACY COUNCIL: $8k → 18%KERN LITERACY COUNCIL: $8k → 18%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 19 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
11

Total granted

$1.0M
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+30%

Still filing today

74%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • SJ
    SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE
    6× · 2017–2023 · $350k · revenue +48%
  • BF
    BODIE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +6%
  • HB
    HIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +40%
  • DC
    DREAM CENTER OF BAKERSFIELD
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • KO
    KEEPERS OF THE KERN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Kern River Foundation
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2
Kern County Sheriffs Department Search and Rescue-Kern Valley Unit

The specific purpose for which this corporation is organized are to provide rescue and emergency services beneficial to the public interest, to assist the Kern County Sheriff's Department, Office of Emergency Services of the State of…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
Kern County Fire Department Retired Employees Asso

Support of local retired firefighters

Recreation & Sports
4
Kern County Cancer Foundation

Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.

Health
5
The Kern Project

To save homeless animals of kern county through rescue, rehabilitation, rehoming, and the promotion of spay-neuter

Animals
6
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
7
Kern Medical Center Foundation

Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center

Health
8
Kern County Network for Children

Assure community services to children

Human Services
9
Santa Clara River Conservancy

The Santa Clara River Conservancy represents the diverse interests of the Santa Clara River, from the flood plain to the highest tributaries, and seeks to secure, sustain, and manage significant lands and waters that provide habitat for…

Environment
10
Kern County Law Enforcement Foundation

Support of local law enforcement

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11
Kern Humane Society

Education concerning spaying and neutering, and offering free coupons for people who cant afford to pay to have their dogs or cats neutered or spayed.

Animals
12
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Mono County Sheriff Search & Rescue. 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

22 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. 22 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $350,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTESAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $140,000 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 · HealthFAMILY ENTERPRISE USA: $95,000 · OtherFAMILY ENTERPRISE USABARC: $29,000 · OtherBARCJUNE LAKE LOOP WOMENS CLUB: $17,500 · OtherJUNE LAKE LOOP WOMENS …ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC OF ORANGE COUNTY: $13,500 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOC OF O…NEW ADVANCES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY: $21,500 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIA…MONO COUNTY SHERIFF SEARCH & RESCUE: $10,000 · Other+9 more: $43,500 · Other+9 moreKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $129,295 · PhilanthropyKERN COMMUNIT…CALIFORNIA LIVING MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA LI…BODIE FOUNDATION: $92,000 · Recreation & SportsBODIE FOU…+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsHIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME INC: $52,940 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $34,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN: $5,000 · Arts & CultureKern Literacy Council: $48,000 · EducationKern County Library Foundation: $7,500 · EducationTHE CAT PEOPLE INC: $44,000 · AnimalsALPHA CANINE SANCTUARY: $2,000 · Animals+1 more: $1,500 · Animals
Health$515,000Other$240,000Philanthropy$139,295Recreation & Sports$94,500Arts & Culture$91,940Education$55,500Animals$47,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT JOHN'S CANCER INSTITUTE: $350,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $129,295 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBODIE FOUNDATION: $92,000 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetHIGH BANKS HALL OF FAME INC: $52,940 over 8y, 20% of budgetKern Literacy Council: $48,000 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetTHE CAT PEOPLE INC: $44,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $34,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA ONCOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF KERN COUNTY: $21,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ADVANCES FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONO COUNTY SHERIFF SEARCH & RESCUE: $10,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA LIVING MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKERN RIVER CONSERVANCY: $7,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKern County Library Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEEPERS OF THE KERN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGOLDEN EMPIRE GLEANERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARTS COUNCIL OF KERN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF OCEANO DUNES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALPHA CANINE SANCTUARY: $2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHAVE-A-HEART HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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 Virginia and Alfr…Kern Community Founda…Amicus FoundationThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Virginia and Alfred Harrell FoundationCA22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Virginia and Alfred Harrell Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · Amicus Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Patricia Crail Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Patricia Crail Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Patricia Crail Brown Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Patricia Crail Brown Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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