· Private foundation
The Adam and John Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $455k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS | $500,000 |
| STETSON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| PAWS | $500,000 |
| THE ANTI CRUELTY SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| IGNITE THE SPIRIT FUND CHICAGO | $485,000 |
| SOUTH EASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC | $100,000 |
| PEOPLE FOR GUATEMALA | $100,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS | $100,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $55,070 |
| CHOICE TO CHANGE INC | $50,000 |
| HENRY SCHUELER 41 &9 FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES NW6443 | $32,912 |
| GUARDIAN ANGEL BASSET HOUND RESCUE | $25,000 |
| BRILAND MODEM FUND | $25,000 |
| LITTLE RED BARN FARM SANCTUARY | $25,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
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.
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
Straydog rescues, rehabilitates, and rehomes abandoned and neglected dogs in a no-kill environment until each is adopted into a caring, loving home. it also acts as a sanctuary for those dogs who are never adopted.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Animal Partisan, Inc. is organized for the purposes of conducting legal advocacy on behalf of animals subjected to cruelty and exploitation.
Love Dogs wants to end the killing of homeless dogs through adoption and free or low-cost spay and neuter. We use the creativity and problem solving skills of Silicon Valley to save the lives of as many dogs as possible.
To support the Operating Organization - Southeastern Guide Dogs, Inc. DBA Dogs Inc
Valley Humane Society (VHS) creates a brighter future for cats and dogs by encouraging and strengthening the bond between people and pets. VHS rescues and rehabilitates companion animals, champions responsible caretaking, shares pets'…
Our mission is to rescue and re-home abandoned, abused, sick, and injured animals from the street and animals on death row in our local high-kill shelters.
A foster based, non-profit 501c3 organization that rescues dogs from shelters, neglectful situations and owner surrenders.
Rescue, rehabiitate, and place homeless dogs by adotion into qualified, permanent homes. provide veterinary care, including spay/neuter surgery, to homeless dogs. educate the public about responsible dog ownership.
Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…
To help abandoned dogs in kill shelters find permanent and responsible loving homes. We support and work with other reputable rescues who support our vision and standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Moonrise Therapeutics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 PAWS INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Anti-Cruelty Society ↗
- Who funds UNION LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR GUATEMALA INC ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY SCHUELER 41 & 9 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOICE TO CHANGE INC TRIMBLE ↗
- Who funds DANNY DID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOONRISE THERAPEUTICS ↗
- Who funds GARRIDO STRAY RESCUE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Adam and John 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% 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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