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Robert E Browning Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FINGER LAKES LAND TRUST | $90,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON OPERA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| HAYS SYMPHONY GUILD | $5,000 |
| HAYS MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- TBTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +29%
- TATABOR ACADEMY4× · 2019–2023 · $78k · revenue +54%
- PRPALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION3× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CACOLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +367%
- TTTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INCone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The chamber is a member association designed to be the leading advocate for the business community of the greater dayton region. its mission is to work shoulder to shoulder with businesses to help them succeed.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beyond Housing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. 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.
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 55 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 46 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 TOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PALEONTOLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ITHACA AND TOMPKINS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds Charlevoix County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ITHACA YOUTH BUREAU ↗
- Who funds THE DAYTON ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MAYSVILLE PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds HAYS SYMPHONY GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Russell E Browning Family Foundation Inc · The Riley Family Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Kettering Family Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Dayton Power and Light Company Foundation Dba Aes Ohio Foundation · Fischer-Bauer-Knirps Foundation · United Way of Tompkins County Inc · Tompkins Charitable Gift Fund Inc · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Mathile Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tompkins County 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 organization Robert E Browning 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% 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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