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The Brown Family Foundation at a glance

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The Brown Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$361k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$1.6MEducation$208kReligion$156kHealth$148kPhilanthropy$49kAnimals$26kCommunity Improvement$13kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA PONTE VEDRA BEACH$300,000
BEAM$30,000
UNF FOUNDATION INC$11,400
BATES COLLEGE$10,000
FLORIDA HOUSE$5,000
LOUDER THAN SILENCE$2,500
ASCENSION ST VINCENT'S FOUNDATIONI$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 (FY19–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOUDER THAN SILENCE: $3k → 10%HER SONG JACKSONVILLE: $20k → 14%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.
$2.1M · 12 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +116% since the first grant, against +54% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$2.1M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
+54%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthReligionHuman ServicesAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • HA
    HUGS ACROSS THE COUNTY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $100k · revenue +294% · 33% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $86k · revenue +126%
  • BE
    Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • HS
    Her Song Jacksonville Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +923%
  • American Diabetes Association
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +4%
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
Florida Research Center for Agricultural Sustainability Inc
Philanthropy
2
The Womens Care Florida Foundation
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3
The South Florida Charity Classic
Human Services
4
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
5
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
6
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

—
7
Shands Jacksonville Foundation Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Education
8
Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

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9
University of Miami
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10
Flagler Health Care Foundation Inc

The organization's mission is to support uf health promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the…

Health
11
Bioflorida Inc

From concept to consumer, bioflorida is the premier source for supporting the florida life sciences industry. we provide comprehensive resources and advocacy, while fostering a thriving community that leads in innovation and groundbreaking…

—
12
Florida Sports Foundation Incorporated

To promote and develop professional, amateur, and participatory sports for the citizens of florida and attract out of state visitors through sports, thus creating significant economic benefit for florida.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of North Florida Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Jim and Tabitha Furyk 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

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA PONTE VEDRA BEACH: $1,460,000 · OtherYMCA PONTE VEDRA BEACHWOLFSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $120,000 · OtherWOLFSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALBETTY GRIFFIN HOUSE: $75,000 · OtherPONTE VEDRA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $65,000 · Other+15 more: $95,849 · OtherHUGS ACROSS THE COUNTY INC: $100,000 · EducationHUGS ACROS…UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $86,381 · EducationUNIVERSITY…PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationPRESIDENT …Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc: $75,000 · ReligionDesire Street Ministries: $10,000 · ReligionTHE JIM AND TABITHA FURYK FOUNDATION: $44,120 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $26,000 · AnimalsAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 · HealthGOLFERS AGAINST CANCER INC: $1,000 · HealthHer Song Jacksonville Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOUDER THAN SILENCE: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$1,815,849Education$206,381Religion$85,000Philanthropy$49,120Animals$26,000Health$26,000Human Services$22,500

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 budgetHUGS ACROSS THE COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $86,381 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBeaches Emergency Assistance Ministry I Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JIM AND TABITHA FURYK FOUNDATION: $44,120 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $26,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHer Song Jacksonville Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesire Street Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOACHES HONOR INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOUDER THAN SILENCE: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGOLFERS AGAINST CANCER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAG CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF ST AUGUSTINE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAFETY SHELTER OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC: $750 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.

The Community Foundat…Pga Tour IncThe Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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