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The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn

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.

$182k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$527kReligion$262kHuman Services$260kCommunity Improvement$221kInternational$132kHousing & Shelter$80kHealth$60kYouth Development$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $178k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
One Classroom$45,000
Reach Reproductive Health$40,000
Bridge of Hope Ministries of the MidAmerica District of the Christian Miss$40,000
Christian Friends of New Americans$20,000
One Heart Family Ministries$17,500
Restoration House Inc$15,000
All Nations$4,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $318k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%REFUGE AND RESTORATION: $20k → 11%Vitendo 4 Africa: $20k → 11%Society of St Vincent De Paul: $20k → 16%KIRKWOOD AREA EVERY CHILD PROMISE: $20k → 11%Humanitri: $20k → 11%Restoration House Inc: $15k → 21%CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER: $40k → 16%One Heart Family Ministries: $18k → 11%Cross Roads Christian Counseling: $10k → 11%YOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CRISIS AID INTERNATIONAL: $30k → 11%Crisis Aid International: $10k → 11%A Seat at the Table: $20k → 21%A Seat at the Table: $10k → 21%Reach Reproductive Health: $40k → 21%Immigrant Home English Learning Program: $20k → 21%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.

36%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$605k · 11 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +302% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
46

Total granted

$605k
$952k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+302%
+20%

Still filing today

91%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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 ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationReligionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC
    4× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +20%
  • LT
    LOVE THE LOU
    4× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +87%
  • OC
    ONE CLASSROOM
    2× · 2018–2025 · $72k · revenue +450%

Funded once

  • SM
    St Mary's South Side Catholic High Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • PH
    Pregnancy Help Center
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
  • CA
    CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue -40%

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
Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri

Inspired by the gospel of the beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…

Human Services
2
Dismas House of St Louis
Crime & Legal
3
Center for Faith and Work St Louis

The Center for Faith and Work St. Louis is a ministry focused on engaging the world through Biblical understanding of work and vocation. The character of God, shapes the character of our work. CFW seeks to engage all who desire to do…

Religion
4
St Louis Reconciliation Network
Community Improvement
5
Community Builders Network of Metro St Louis

The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…

Community Improvement
6
Community Response

"Develop and implement innovative solutions to social and public health issues that threaten the physical and/or mental health of underserved children, families and communities

Youth Development
7
Recovery St Louis
Health
8
Conflict Resolution Center St Louis City

Conflict Resolution Center St. Louis empowers people to resolve conflict through accessible mediation, coaching, and education.

Human Services
9
House Everyone Stl

Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.

Housing & Shelter
10
City Hope St Louis

In 2023, city hope st. louis housed an average on 100 people individuals nightly in the st. louis area.

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11
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
12
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of St Louis

To bring the healing, help, and hope of jesus christ to those in need with a compassionate, caring presence. our values are dignity, hospitality, service, excellence, compassion, and joy.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Activity Center and the most unlike its peers is Reach Reproductive Health. 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 17 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr13%20%5–10yr16%29%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr17%12%35–55yr19%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%12%<5yr13%15%5–10yr16%39%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr17%9%35–55yr19%14%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
14%
1,453/10,113

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

37 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. 37 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARCHDIOCESAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS — $65,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF THE ARCH…Pregnancy Help Center — $45,000 · OtherPregnancy Help CenterSt Mary's High School — $30,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CHURCH AND SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherCARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREPATORY — $25,000 · OtherCOMPASS EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMSEAGLE PREP SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherCrossRoads Counseling Centers — $25,000 · OtherELEVATE ST LOUIS — $25,000 · OtherSister Thea Bowman Catholic School — $25,000 · OtherBETHLEHEM LUTHERAN CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherR3 DEVELOPMENT — $22,000 · Other+21 more — $316,750 · Other+21 moreINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID …VITENDO4AFRICA — $42,000 · Human ServicesVITENDO4AFRICACHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTER — $40,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN ACTIVITY CENTERReach Reproductive Health — $40,000 · Human ServicesReach Reproductive HealthA SEAT AT THE TABLE — $30,000 · Human ServicesA SEAT AT THE TABLERefuge and Restoration — $20,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM — $20,000 · Human ServicesKIRKWOOD AREA EVERY CHILD PROMISE — $20,000 · Human ServicesSociety of St Vincent De Paul — $20,000 · Human ServicesHUMANITRI — $20,000 · Human ServicesONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesRESTORATION HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human Services+2 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesONE CLASSROOM — $72,000 · EducationONE CLASSROOMSouth City Community School — $50,000 · EducationSouth City Comm…St Mary's South Side Catholic High School — $50,000 · EducationSt Mary's South…Rosati-Kain Academy — $40,000 · EducationRosati-Kain Aca…MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE S…LOVE THE LOU — $80,000 · Community ImprovementLOVE THE LOUMISSION ST LOUIS — $55,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION ST LOU…TABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementTABERNACLE COM…COMMUNITY HOPE CENTER INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY HOPE…+1 more — $4,000 · Community ImprovementBRIDGE OF HOPE MINISTRIES — $40,000 · ReligionDUTCHTOWN OUTREACH — $20,000 · ReligionChristian Friends of New Americans — $20,000 · ReligionJACOBS LADDER MINISTRIES — $16,000 · ReligionLUTHERAN DEVELOPMENT GROUP — $31,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HAVEN OF GRACE — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSt Joseph Housing Initiative — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY — $37,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$653,750Human Services$389,500Education$237,000Community Improvement$224,000Religion$96,000Housing & Shelter$61,000Crime & Legal$37,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS AID INC — $90,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLOVE THE LOU — $80,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMISSION ST LOUIS — $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSouth City Community School — $50,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSt Mary's South Side Catholic High School — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTABERNACLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $50,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetVITENDO4AFRICA — $42,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetRosati-Kain Academy — $40,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY — $37,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLUTHERAN DEVELOPMENT GROUP — $31,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA SEAT AT THE TABLE — $30,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRefuge and Restoration — $20,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetIMMIGRANT HOME ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDUTCHTOWN OUTREACH — $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSociety of St Vincent De Paul — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetChristian Friends of New Americans — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF GRACE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHUMANITRI — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetST FRANCIS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONE HEART FAMILY MINISTRIES INC — $17,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $17,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN IN CHARGE — $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetSt Joseph Housing Initiative — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN COUNSELING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL NATIONS — $4,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…Commerce Bancshares F…United Way of Greater…World Wide Technology…Vatterott FoundationYouthbridge Community…The E Walter Hausstet…Norman J Stupp Founda…The Neeb Family Found…Moneta Group Charitab…Employees Community F…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO48× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Vatterott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · The E Walter Hausstette Charitable Foundation C/O Mike Moloney Big Sky · Norman J Stupp Foundation · The Neeb Family Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company

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 Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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 · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn?

    Find your warmest path to The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn 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 64 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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