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The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc

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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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$4.2MPhilanthropy$2.0MEducation$2.0MRecreation & Sports$1.9MCivil Rights$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.1MCommunity Improvement$963kHealth$754kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $366k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+3 grants · $833k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Brown Forman Corp Cl B.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE$333,453
DUKE UNIVERSITY$250,000
SPEED ART MUSEUM$250,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE$208,204
SPEED ART MUSEUM$144,078
METRO UNITED WAY$100,722
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$100,484
LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$100,000
SOWING SEEDS OF FAITH$100,000
REBOUND INC$100,000
KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE$75,000
LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE$57,723
SPEED ART MUSEUM$50,000
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY$50,000
SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%PERC INC: $5k → 10%PERC INC: $5k → 9%Creative Capital Foundation: $5k → 17%WORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%WAVES FOR WATER: $5k → 14%HOME OF THE INNOCENTS: $10k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $500k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $179k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $111k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $111k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $58k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $53k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 15%CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $25k → 15%LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 15%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
KY
WV
VA
MD
NC
DC
MS
FL
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.
$14M · 81 repeat orgs$926k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

81 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
40

Total granted

$14M
$764k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+7%

Still filing today

78%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • SA
    SPEED ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +416%
  • PA
    PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +11%
  • TL
    THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +97%

Funded once

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD - PPGNHAIK
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • WF
    WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +41%
  • MS
    MARTY STUART CONGRESS OF COUNTRY MUSIC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Leadership Kentucky Foundation Inc

Broadens the perspectives of current and emerging leaders through experiential education that inspires them to advance kentucky.

Public Benefit
4
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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5
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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6
Endeavor Louisville Inc

Endeavor Louisville is leading the high-impact entrepreneurship movement in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, catalyzing long-term economic growth by selecting, mentoring, and supporting the best high-impact entrepreneurs in our region.…

International
7
Kentucky Bankers Association

To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…

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8
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
9
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Louisville Foundation Inc

Identify, mobilize, and fund programs to address louisville's greatest challenges regarding business growth and increased economic prosperity for all citizens in the greater louisville region.

Community Improvement
11
University of Louisville Real Estate Foundation Inc

To acquire, maintain, improve, leverage, manage, lease, and convey real and personal property for the benefit of the university of louisville.

Philanthropy
12
Kentucky Chamber Foundation Inc

The Kentucky Chamber Foundation's purpose is to unlock the power of business, accelerate solutions, and build opportunity in Kentucky.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc; the most unlike its peers is Billy Fiske 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

104 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. 104 of the 133 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/104
Grantees still filing
65/104
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REBOUND INC: $600,000 · OtherREBOUND INCIndividual grant recipient: $560,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOWING SEEDS OF FAITH: $410,000 · OtherSOWING SEEDS OF FAITHPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC: $400,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCK…KENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC DBA LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA: $300,000 · OtherPORTLAND MUSEUM INC: $260,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT CORP: $225,000 · OtherBRIDGE KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $225,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY: $500,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO …SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $245,000 · Other+61 more: $2,357,176 · Other+61 moreSPEED ART MUSEUM: $1,528,834 · Arts & CultureSPEED ART MUSEUMADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC: $510,000 · Arts & CultureADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODU…THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTR…FUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $193,334 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INCTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $166,667 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $696,594 · Arts & Culture+18 moreTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,163,019 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY…METRO UNITED WAY INC: $425,722 · PhilanthropyMETRO UNITED …FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FO…THE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $73,000 · PhilanthropyDUKE UNIVERSITY: $750,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVER…Simmons College of Kentucky Inc: $420,881 · EducationSimmons Col…LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $156,667 · EducationLOUISVILLE …LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO: $102,000 · EducationLOUISVILLE …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $70,000 · Education+10 more: $184,022 · Education+10 morePARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,339,702 · EnvironmentPARKS ALLI…NEW VENTURE FUND: $90,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTUR…+4 more: $62,500 · EnvironmentTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1,131,849 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $135,000 · Human Services+5 more: $40,000 · Human ServicesONEWEST CORPORATION: $500,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $275,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $17,500 · Community Improvement
Other$6,082,176Arts & Culture$3,455,429Philanthropy$1,921,741Education$1,683,570Environment$1,492,202Human Services$1,306,849Community Improvement$792,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPEED ART MUSEUM: $1,528,834 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetPARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,339,702 over 4y, 9.6% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC: $1,163,019 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC: $1,131,849 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $750,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREBOUND INC: $600,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetADVENTUROUS MINDS PRODUCE EXTRAORDINARY DREAMS INC: $510,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetONEWEST CORPORATION: $500,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetLOUISVILLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITY AND MICRO ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY: $500,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetMETRO UNITED WAY INC: $425,722 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSimmons College of Kentucky Inc: $420,881 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF INDIANA AND KENTUCKY INC: $400,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $275,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPORTLAND MUSEUM INC: $260,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC: $245,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetBRIDGE KIDS INTERNATIONAL: $225,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC: $210,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $193,334 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOL OF LOUISVILLE INC ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL INC: $187,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC: $166,667 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC: $161,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKENTUCKIANS FOR THE COMMONWEALTH INC: $160,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budgetLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $156,667 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $145,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetLOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIO: $102,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE INC: $79,591 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetKENTUCKY DANCE COUNCIL INC DBA LOUISVILLE BALLET: $65,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOut Loud Louisville: $59,950 over 6y, 17% of budgetEVOLVE502 INC: $55,556 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSALISBURY SCHOOL INC: $52,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY AUTHOR FORUM INC: $50,001 over 3y, 12% of budgetAPPALSHOP INC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFULBRIGHT US-UK FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLOUISVILLE COMMUNITY DESIGN CENTER INC DBA CENTER FOR NEIGHBORHOODS: $40,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetKENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN: $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% 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.

Sociable Weaver Found…The Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…Owsley Brown II Famil…W L Lyons Brown Found…Snowy Owl Foundation …LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…James Graham Brown Fo…The Community Foundat…Republic Bank Foundat…The Owsley Brown III …
Sociable Weaver Foundation IncKY104.4× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · James Graham Brown Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found

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 Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 133 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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