· Private foundation
The 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIMBRELL FAMILY FUND | $200,500 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S FUND | $50,000 |
| CHEROKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CHEROKEE PREGNANCY CENTER | $20,000 |
| BARTOW FAMILY RESOURCES AND BFR MEDICAL | $20,000 |
| BOYS FARM | $20,000 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $20,000 |
| CAMP LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $15,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $15,000 |
| GO TELL CRUSADES INC | $11,000 |
| PAK7 US INC | $10,000 |
| SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 14 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k 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
- SMSend56 Ministry Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $56k · revenue +48%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +106%
- BFBoys Farm Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- SSSTRAIGHT STREET LAURENS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -72%
- CCCHEROKEE CO MEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- PEPINE EDEN CHRISTIAN RETREATone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
Religious Travel in US and abroad to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Church planting. Humanitarian aid (orphanages and feeding stations).
To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Feeding the hungry
Missionary support ministry to pastors and missionaries in Africa and India. We encouraging and uplifting them with spiritual and devotional teachings of Jesus using the internet. Partners in winning souls for the Kingdom of God.
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Teach the ministry of christ
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miracle Hill Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Im Jai House Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 23% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 GO TELL CRUSADES INC F/K/A RICK GAGE EVANGELISTIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Send56 Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GOTELL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT STREET LAURENS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR GEORGETOWN COUNTY SC INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds IM JAI HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Lighthouse Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds LEGACY ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING VINE INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM FIRST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PAK7 US 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organization The 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% 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.