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The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation

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.

$292k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE APAT & KATHRYNE LBROWN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC$50,000
RESILIENCE HIGH POINT (HIGH POINT SCHOOL'S PARTNERSHIP)$30,000
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNC-CH$29,200
Individual grant recipient$26,280
HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION$26,280
EMERYWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH$26,280
COHAB SPACE CREATIVE INC$25,000
HELPING HANDS HIGH POINT INC$25,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT$20,600
HIGH POINT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,760
PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION INC$8,760
BAPTIST RETIREMENT HOMES$5,840
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HELPING HANDS HIGH POINT INC: $25k → 14%MACEDONIA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN: $23k → 16%COMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 16%FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 16 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
18

Total granted

$1.6M
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+64%

Still filing today

44%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TA
    THEATRE ART GALLERIES INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $87k · revenue +210%
  • HP
    HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2022 · $85k · revenue +89%
  • PH
    Presbyterian Homes Foundation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +0%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2024 · $23k
  • WM
    WESLEY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Forward High Point Inc

To transform the high point, north carolina core-city area into an extraodinary and vibrant destination to live, work, study and play.

Community Improvement
2
Habitat for Humanity of High Point Archdale & Trinity Inc

Habitat for Humanity of High Point, Archdale and Trinity is an ecumenical Christian movement whose goal is to build safe, decent, affordable homes for our neighbors in need. Through conscience and action, Habitat utilizes volunteer labor…

Housing & Shelter
3
High Point Chamber Foundation

(1) to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and understanding in economics, finance, education & training, science, and technology throughout the community of high point, north carolina and its region with regard to…

Philanthropy
4
Highpoint Center for Printmaking

Highpoint Center for Printmaking is dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking. We create pathways for artists, learners, and the public to increase their understanding and appreciation of printmaking through artistic and educational…

Arts & Culture
5
High Point Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc Dba Visit High Point

The mission of Visit High Point is to position High Point as a destination that visitors will enjoy and that locals will want to promote.

6
High Point Historical Society Inc

The high point historical society collects, preserves and showcase the history of greater high point to foster a shared appreciation of our community reflected in the stories, events and traditions of our past

Arts & Culture
7
Greater High Point Food Alliance

Ghpfa will strive to coordinate and improve the effectiveness of entities in greater high point focused on alleviating hunger by creating and executing citywide and neighborhood-focused initiatives to develop more just and sustainable food…

Food & Nutrition
8
Business High Point Inc D/B/a High Point Chamber of Commerce

Business high point, inc. is dedicated to encouraging economic growth in the piedmont triad region of north carolina. the chamber is an advocate for our members and our community on business-related issues and participates in initiatives…

9
High Point Discovered Inc

The organization is a media group created to showcase the city of high point north carolina on a personal level. high point discovered is empowering people by telling stories and elevating the voices of our community. the purpose of high…

Community Improvement
10
High Point Baseball Inc

To promote the social welfare of the community of high point, north carolina and to lessen the burdens of the city government, through the operation and management, of a minor league baseball team, for the public benefit.

11
Community Clinic of High Point Inc

The clinic's mission is to provide quality acute care and chronic disease management for eligible adults, aged 18-64, who reside in archdale, high point, jamestown and trinity and do not qualify for any form of government or private…

Health
12
Turning Point Community Development Corporation

To serve as a catalyst for the continued development, transformation, and empowerment of communities in vance, granville, warren, and franklin counties in north carolina through the provision of leadership and programs in the areas of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Point Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Go Far Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%9%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr20%18%35–55yr11%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%7%<5yr16%0%5–10yr19%37%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr20%12%35–55yr11%21%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
17%
532/3,080

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.

04the grantee network

22 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
18/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNC-CH — $190,750 · OtherSCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNC-CHEmerywood Baptist Church — $168,930 · OtherEmerywood Baptist ChurchIndividual grant recipient — $168,930 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $126,000 · OtherUNC SCHOOL OF MEDICINECOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT NC — $118,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF HIGH POINT NCIndividual grant recipient — $67,060 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPresbyterian Homes Foundation Inc — $67,060 · OtherPresbyterian Homes Foundation IncFAMILY SERVICE OF HIGH POINT — $63,000 · OtherBAPTIST RETIREMENT HOMES — $52,790 · OtherOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES FOUNDATION — $47,800 · Other+14 more — $176,300 · Other+14 moreHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $181,430 · HealthHIGH POINT…UNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC — $103,100 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…High Point Community Foundation — $70,000 · PhilanthropyHigh Poin…HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $85,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $28,350 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HIGH POINT INC — $12,500 · EducationTHEATRE ART GALLERIES INC — $87,000 · Arts & CultureHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HANDS HIGH POINT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMACEDONIA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER I — $10,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentGO FAR Inc — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,246,620Health$181,430Philanthropy$173,100Education$125,850Arts & Culture$97,000Human Services$78,000Youth Development$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — $181,430 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC — $103,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTHEATRE ART GALLERIES INC — $87,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHIGH POINT UNIVERSITY — $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHigh Point Community Foundation — $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Homes Foundation Inc — $67,060 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN INC — $33,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $28,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HIGH POINT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHIGH POINT COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC — $12,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGO FAR Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF HIGH POINT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEST END MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMACEDONIA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER I — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC — $7,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF HIGH POINT NC INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER HIGH POINT INC
  • Who funds THEATRE ART GALLERIES INC
  • Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds High Point Community Foundation
  • Who funds Presbyterian Homes Foundation Inc
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE GREATER TRIAD Inc
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COLLABORATION FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HELPING HANDS HIGH POINT INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HIGH POINT INC
  • Who funds HIGH POINT COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE INC
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC
  • Who funds GO FAR Inc
  • Who funds THE ARC OF HIGH POINT INC
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC
  • Who funds WEST END MINISTRIES
  • Who funds MACEDONIA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER I
  • Who funds HIGH POINT ARTS COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HIGH POINT NC INC
  • Who funds THE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION 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.

Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family FoundationDE32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Earl and Kathryn Congdon Family Foundation · High Point Community Foundation · Mark a & Rena R Norcross Family Foundation · Hayworth Foundation · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · McInnis Family Foundation · Foster Foundation Inc · The Foundation for a Healthy High Point · David R Hayworth Foundation · United Way of Greater High Point Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · The Winston-Salem 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 Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Apat & Kathryne Lbrown Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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