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Richard N Brown Family Foundation at a glance

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Richard N Brown Family Foundation

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.

$15k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Education$20kPublic Benefit$19kReligion$15kCrime & Legal$5kHuman Services$5kArts & Culture$4k
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NAVIGATORS$2,500
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$2,500
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$2,500
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION$2,500
JUDICIAL WATCH$2,500
INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE$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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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 4 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$17k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+76%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Public BenefitEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +72%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • TN
    THE NAVIGATORS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $4k

Funded once

  • GC
    GREENWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +76%
  • DL
    Denver Leadership Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue -67%
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
National Civil Justice Institute

The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…

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2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
The Public Interest Fellowship Foundation

The public interest fellowship foundation (tpiff) draws on the legacy of that great journal of ideas and policy founded by daniel bell and irving kristol. this legacy nourished generations of individuals dedicated to meeting the moral and…

Education
6
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
7
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
8
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
9
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
10
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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11
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
12
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Inner-City School Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIO…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEINNER-CITY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationINNER-CITY SCHOOL INCDenver Leadership Foundation: $8,500 · Public BenefitDenver Leadership FoundationJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH INCINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Public BenefitINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTETHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATIONGREENWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherGREENWOOD COMMUNITY CHURCHTHE NAVIGATORS: $3,500 · OtherTHE NAVIGATORS+1 more: $250 · OtherPacific Legal Foundation: $5,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$19,500Public Benefit$19,000Other$18,750Crime & Legal$5,000Human Services$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Leadership Foundation: $8,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOSEN & DEARLY LOVED FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER-CITY SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Christian Community Foundation IncCO13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Richard N Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard N Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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