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Sis Brown Family Foundation 127018-000

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.2M
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$243kPhilanthropy$200kYouth Development$62kReligion$55kScience & Tech$25kHealth$23kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $199k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.0M
$98,760
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$2,983,269
DALTON STATE FOUNDATION$100,000
REINHART UNIVERSITY$98,760
UNITED WAY OF NW GEORGIA$30,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$25,000
CHATTANOOGA TAKE DOWN CLUB$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $25k → 8%MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $1k → 12%CHATTANOOGA TAKE DOWN CLUB: $10k → 14%REINHART UNIVERSITY: $100k → 6%CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL: $30k → 13%CHATTANOOGGA TAKE DOWN CLUB: $50k → 12%DALTON STATE FOUNDATION: $100k → 6%CITY OF REFUGE: $25k → 13%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%REINHART UNIVERSITY: $99k → 6%CITY OF REFUGE: $25k → 13%CHATTANOOGA AREA FOOD BANK: $10k → 12%DEO CLINIC: $8k → 13%DEO CLINIC: $8k → 13%FAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL: $5k → 13%BROWN WHITWORTH REYNOLDS: $3.0M → 13%NW GA REGIONAL LIBRARY SYSTEM: $13k → 13%CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH: $5k → 13%DOC UP: $3k → 13%BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2k → 13%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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$324k · 4 repeat orgs$3.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +114% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$324k
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+114%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • REINHARDT UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $199k · revenue -7%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NW GEORGIA
    2× · 2021–2022 · $60k
  • CO
    CITY OF REFUGE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +151%

Funded once

  • CT
    CHATTANOOGGA TAKE DOWN CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +14%
  • CH
    CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +60%
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
United Way of Greater Chattanooga

Uniting people and resources in building a stronger, healthier community

Philanthropy
2
Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education
3
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
4
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
5
Carolina University

A christ-centered university committed to exceptional teaching, scholarly research, creative innovation, and professional collaboration.

Education
6
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education
7
Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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8
Freed-Hardeman University

Freed-hardeman university is a private school associated with churches of christ which emphasize physical and spiritual development of its students to prepare them for lives of service to their communities.

Education
9
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
10
Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation

We guide and encourage donors who are motivated toward kingdom-building generosity. our mission is carried out through four primary initiatives: providing donor-advised funds, inspiring and encouraging generosity within families along the…

Philanthropy
11
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
12
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reinhardt University; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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

11 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. 11 of the 20 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,983,269 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+9 more: $272,000 · Other+9 moreREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $198,760 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCITY OF REFUGE: $50,000 · ReligionUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyDEO CLINIC INC: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 · HealthCHATTANOOGA TAKEDOWN CLUB: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC: $4,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$3,255,269Education$224,760Religion$50,000Philanthropy$40,000Health$22,500Recreation & Sports$10,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Crime & Legal$4,500

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 budgetREINHARDT UNIVERSITY: $198,760 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST GEORGIAINC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEO CLINIC INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCHATTANOOGA TAKEDOWN CLUB: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORT COUNCIL INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MCCALLIE SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Brown Whitworth Reyno…The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Amazonsmile Foundation
Brown Whitworth Reynolds FoundationDE15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brown Whitworth Reynolds Foundation · The Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Sis Brown Family Foundation 127018-000 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sis Brown Family Foundation 127018-000. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to Sis Brown Family Foundation 127018-000?

Find your warmest path to Sis Brown Family Foundation 127018-000 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 20 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.

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