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The Bockus Brown Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$360k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.5MFood & Nutrition$750kEnvironment$436kInternational$145kPublic Safety & Disaster$131kHealth$120kEmployment$95kCommunity Improvement$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $181k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST$105,000
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY$25,000
ALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$25,000
CENTER FOR A NEW AMERICAN SECURITY$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$25,000
PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
KQED$10,500
NUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE$10,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$10,000
EASTSIDE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$5,000
GLIDE$5,000
SAVE THE RIVER$5,000
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 20 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$3.1M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+1%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +18%
  • TI
    THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $385k · revenue +31%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SB
    SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +43%
  • IT
    Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -23%
  • RH
    RIVER HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +14%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Pitzer College

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.…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

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…

Education
10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
California Institute for BioMedical Research

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…

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12
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alliance for the Great Lakes; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $1,375,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC+4 more: $53,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $750,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKPALO ALTO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $65,000 · OtherPALO ALTO COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $35,000 · OtherKQED INC: $55,500 · OtherKQED INC+12 more: $117,560 · Other+12 moreTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC: $385,000 · EnvironmentTHOUSAND ISLA…+4 more: $15,750 · EnvironmentCenter for a New American Security Inc: $75,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $50,000 · InternationalNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 · InternationalSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthRIVER HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 · Human ServicesAda's Cafe: $95,000 · Employment
Education$1,428,000Other$1,023,060Environment$400,750International$145,000Health$120,000Human Services$110,000Employment$95,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $1,375,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC: $385,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAda's Cafe: $95,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCenter for a New American Security Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKQED INC: $55,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE GREAT LAKES: $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SECURITY AND TECHNOLOGY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEDGEBROOK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNUCLEAR THREAT INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER HOSPITAL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANOFF FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE RIVER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA ARTS GUILD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanopy: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMusic in the Schools Foundation: $2,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAMMOND FIRE AND RESCUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPALO ALTO PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…The David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…The Palo Alto Communi…Tides FoundationJohn D and Catherine …National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Charities Aid Foundat…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bockus Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bockus Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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