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Tammy Stratman Brown Charities

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$322k
Granted FY2026still arriving
78
Grants FY2026still arriving
16
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$915kEducation$762kHuman Services$54kInternational$48kArts & Culture$32kFood & Nutrition$32kRecreation & Sports$29kYouth Development$26kOther$0
02FY2026 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k74 grants · $182k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Cancer Society$60,000
The Child Advocacy Center$40,000
Faith Through Fire$30,000
St Judes Research Hospital$10,000
Troy Buchanan High School$8,000
Tri City Assembly of God$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
Timberland High School$7,000
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Lindenwood University$6,000
St Louis Food Bank$5,000
Faith Through Fire$5,000
Purdue University$4,000
Middle Tennessee State University$4,000
Kansas City Art Institute$4,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kesem: $1k → 14%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Easter Seals: $2k → 7%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Cancer Support Center: $30k → 14%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Cancer Support Center: $1k → 14%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $2k → 9%Hartbauer McBride Memorial Foundation: $1k → 9%Bree's Gift: $2k → 10%Bree's Gift: $1k → 10%Bree's Gift: $1k → 10%Bree's Gift: $1k → 10%Bree's Gift: $1k → 10%Bree's Gift: $500 → 10%Bree's Gift: $500 → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
WI
MI
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 80 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2026, 41 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
59

Total granted

$2.2M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+11%

Still filing today

49%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FT
    FAITH THROUGH FIRE INC
    7× · 2020–2026 · $169k · revenue +376%
  • LE
    LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM
    8× · 2018–2026 · $83k · revenue +4%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2026 · $62k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2025 · $7k
  • WH
    Warrenton High School
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • WC
    Wright City High School
    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
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
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
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education
5
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
6
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
7
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
11
John Brown University

John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…

Education
12
Walsh University Inc

Walsh university is an independent, coeducational catholic, liberal arts and sciences institution dedicated to educating its students to become leaders in service to others through a values-based education with an international perspective…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is William Jewell College; the most unlike its peers is Hartbauermcbride Memorial Foundation. 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

70 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 70 of the 163 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
47/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Cancer Society: $484,000 · OtherAmerican Cancer SocietyStand Up 2 Cancer: $131,000 · OtherStand Up 2 CancerUniversity of Missouri - Columbia: $95,750 · OtherUniversity of Missouri - ColumbiaTroy Buchanan High School: $88,293 · OtherTroy Buchanan High SchoolTimberland High School: $85,293 · OtherTimberland High SchoolLiberty High School: $54,293 · Other+104 more: $576,540 · Other+104 moreLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $82,793 · EducationLINDENWOOD E…ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $29,500 · EducationST LOUIS UNI…KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $16,500 · EducationKANSAS CITY …Drury University: $12,000 · EducationColumbia College Chicago: $11,000 · EducationMaryville University - St Louis: $10,500 · EducationVanderbilt University: $9,000 · Education+27 more: $87,500 · Education+27 moreFAITH THROUGH FIRE INC: $169,314 · HealthFAITH THROUG…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $61,500 · HealthST JUDE CHIL…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $11,000 · Health+5 more: $13,500 · HealthSTAND UP TO CANCER: $115,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $65,000 · Crime & LegalJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $31,000 · Human ServicesHARTBAUERMCBRIDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Human ServicesBREE'S GIFT INC: $7,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesGLOBAL COMPASSION MINISTRIES: $48,000 · ReligionTHE COLLECTIVE THREAD: $2,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,500 · Religion
Other$1,515,169Education$258,793Health$255,314Philanthropy$115,500Crime & Legal$65,000Human Services$54,500Religion$51,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAITH THROUGH FIRE INC: $169,314 over 7y, 12% of budgetLINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM: $82,793 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $61,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL COMPASSION MINISTRIES: $48,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetJENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $29,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPRO FLAT TRACK AMA ROOKIE CLASS OF '79 AND FRIENDS FUND: $26,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARTBAUERMCBRIDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 9y, 11% of budgetSTURGIS MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME: $12,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDrury University: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College Chicago: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFISK UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Council of St Charles County: $7,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBREE'S GIFT INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJONI AND FRIENDS: $6,500 over 10y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTANA COLLEGE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWebster University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANDERSON UNIVERSITY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcKendree University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Christian University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLECTIVE THREAD: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBelmont University: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHTEOUS RIDES: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE ACRES ANIMAL SHELTER: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST LOUIS: $1,490 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds FAITH THROUGH FIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
  • Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL COMPASSION MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds JENNIFER S FALLICK CANCER SUPPORT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PRO FLAT TRACK AMA ROOKIE CLASS OF '79 AND FRIENDS FUND ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds HARTBAUERMCBRIDE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STURGIS MOTORCYCLE MUSEUM & HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds Drury University ↗
  • Who funds Columbia College Chicago ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Maryville University - St Louis ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC ↗

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Folds of Honor Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Swope Memorial Loan Fund · George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust · Lord Educational Fund · Jack J Isgur 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 Tammy Stratman Brown Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tammy Stratman Brown Charities. 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%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Tammy Stratman Brown Charities?

Find your warmest path to Tammy Stratman Brown Charities 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 163 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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