· Private foundation
Team Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AQUINAS CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC | $65,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE FREE CLINIC | $55,000 |
| RICK MARCOTTE CENTRAL SCHOOL PTO INC | $20,000 |
| DEVIN LOMAX BOLKCOM SMITH SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $20,000 |
| JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC | $15,000 |
| LINK UNLIMITED | $10,000 |
| DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $10,000 |
| VERMONT STUDENT ASSISTANCE CORP | $10,000 |
| HUNGER TASK FORCE OF LA CROSSE INC | $5,000 |
| LA CROSSE AREA FAMILY Y M C A INC | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT | $5,000 |
| A PLACE OF GRACE LTD | $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 (FY17–24, $181k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OLOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE FREE CLINIC8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +552% · 42% of their budget
- LULINK Unlimited Scholars6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
- LCLa Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- POPLACE OF GRACEone grant, 2017 · $40k
- WIWAFER INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -14%
- BMBREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +165%
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.
Transform east african communities by providing access to clean well water and water systems.
Well Aware's mission is to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to water scarcity and contamination in East Africa.
Aquaya is a non-profit research and consulting organization dedicated to advancing global health through universal access to safe water and sanitation. we deliver critical insights, data, and tools to enable the wash sector to make the…
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
World hunger relief institute equips people to alleviate hunger through education, research, and sustainable agriculture.
Uniting people and resources to advance the health, education, and financial stability of our communities.
By awarding post-secondary scholarships, the coca-cola scholars foundation exists to develop an influential community of service-minded leaders, connected by coca-cola, who positively shape the world.
UAAMAC is committed to the construction of a Beloved Community of justice, equitable access to opportunities in the pursuit of happiness, education, health, family stability, peace and prosperity for all people. To this endeavor we invite…
The mission of diversity in aquatics is to educate promote and support swimming water safety and healthy aquatics activities for underserved marginalized and vulnerable populations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of South Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cool Earth Action Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 26 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 OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE OF GRACE LTD ↗
- Who funds Devin Lomax Bolkcom Smith Scholarsh ↗
- Who funds LINK Unlimited Scholars ↗
- Who funds Hunger Task Force of La Crosse Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds La Crosse Area Family Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Army West Point Athletic Association inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WAFER INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKIE LEMMON SCHOOL AND DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COOL EARTH ACTION USA INC ↗
- Who funds COULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · La Crosse Community Foundation · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881 · Alm Charities Inc · Xcel Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Team Brown Foundation Inc 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.
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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