· Private foundation
The Bockus Brown Family Foundation
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 $10k10 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST | $105,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES | $25,000 |
| PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY | $25,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| KQED | $10,500 |
| NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE RIVER | $5,000 |
| GLIDE | $5,000 |
| EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
- TITHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC6× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +31%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SBSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +43%
- ITInformation Technology and Innovation Foundationone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -23%
- RHRIVER HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +14%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for the Great Lakes and the most unlike its peers is Manoff Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 33 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 BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ada's Cafe ↗
- Who funds Center for a New American Security Inc ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEDGEBROOK ↗
- Who funds RIVER HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MANOFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA ARTS GUILD ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Canopy ↗
- Who funds Music in the Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HAMMOND FIRE AND RESCUE 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Tides Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Bockus Brown Family 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.
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% 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.