How much did THE BROWN-DAUB FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 75% of THE BROWN-DAUB FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

charitablecharitablekiwanisarts

2019

charitablecharitableartsgreater

2020

arts

2021

—

2022

greater

2023

greater

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $42k
$10k–50k6 grants · $95k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY$30,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER LEHIGH VALLEY$20,000
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE$15,000
EQUILIBRIUM$10,000
THE STATE THEATRE$10,000
GREATER EASTON DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP$10,000
SING FOR AMERICA$5,500
PROJECT OF EASTON$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF EASTON$5,000
CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON$3,100
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN PA$2,500
BOB SWICK MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND$2,500
SUBURBAN EMS$2,500
LEHIGH VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$2,500
WHITETAIL DEER BANQUET$2,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 46 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%

Still filing today

43%

11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth 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

CH
CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON
8× · 2017–2024 · $192k · revenue +19%
NC
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +3%
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THE STATE THEATRE
8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +16%

Funded once

MO
MEALS ON WHEELS OF LEHIGH VALLEY
one grant, 2020 · $6k
MB
MILLER-KEYSTONE BLOOD CENTER
one grant, 2023 · $5k
DS
DAVINCI SCIENCE CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

Allentown Economic Development

To proactively identify, encourage, and develop business opportunities for the lehigh valley.

Community Improvement

Lehigh Valley Economic

The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth, and retention of employers and the creation of jobs for…

Community Improvement

Lehigh Valley Academy Regional

The mission of the lehigh valley academy regional charter school, a fully authorized, dynamic k-12 ib world school, is to educate all students through best learning practices and innovative teaching strategies to be responsible…

Education

Community Day School

An independent pre-k to grade 8 jewish day school serving the western pennsylvania community.

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Passaic Arts and Science Charter School

The mission of passaic arts and science charter school is to provide the ideal environment for the intellectual and social development of its students by utilizing a combined effort of students, educators, families and the community as a…

Education

Chatham County Economic Development

To coordinate and promote economic development, creating good paying jobs, increasing the commercial tax base, and improving the standard of living for county residents.

Community Improvement

Community Action Commission

Community action commission's mission is to build on the strengths and resources available, provide solutions for complex issues, and empower individuals, families, and communities to move out of poverty.

Human Services

The County Chamber of Commerce

The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.

—

Elysian Charter School of Hoboken

The elysian charter school offers an academic program to help children discover their talents.

Education

Civic Theatre of Allentown Pa

The mission: the theatre is dedicated to providing high-quality performing arts to enhance the quality of life in the lehigh valley community. civic carries out its mission by presenting affordable theatre, music and art-house cinema, and…

Arts & Culture

Community Academy of Philadelphia

Operation of a charter school in philadelphia serving students in grades k-12, day care and nursery school.

Education

Mount Nittany Health System

To provide management and administrative services to all mount nittany health subsidiaries.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Penn Jersey Horse Show Association. 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/28

the rest of the field

258/3,162

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.

05the grantee network

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/25

Grantees still filing

15/25

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$860,375Arts & Culture$112,645Human Services$58,360Youth Development$32,000Community Improvement$24,500Philanthropy$21,000Education$18,000

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.

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.

United Way of the Greater Lehigh ValleyPA36.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Air Products Foundation · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S · Two Rivers Health & Wellness · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · St Luke's Hospital of Bethlehem Pa · William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation · Thomas F Staley 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 organisation THE BROWN-DAUB 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 246021192 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NORTHAMPTON COUNTY HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 8% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Brown-Daub Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Brown-Daub Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE BROWN-DAUB FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brown-Daub Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE BROWN-DAUB FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

25 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brown-Daub Foundation?

More from the funding graph