· Private foundation
Reenie Brown and Roy Makowsky Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POTCAKE PLACE | $149,100 |
| THE CHILL FOUNDATION | $21,549 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $10,650 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $10,650 |
| SAVE THE SOUND | $10,650 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONN FOUNDATION INC | $6,390 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE ASSOCIATION | $4,260 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 30% of grant dollars ($64k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 70% that went abroad ($149k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Beyond the US: 70% of all-years giving ($149k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
5 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. 5 of the 7 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Reenie Brown and Roy Makowsky Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Reenie Brown and Roy Makowsky Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: 11% of income from government
- Chill Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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