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The Brown Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$83kAnimals$64kArts & Culture$53kHealth$46kFood & Nutrition$40kHuman Services$17kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER$15,000
PACIFIC WILDLIFE CARE$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
STANFORD MEDICINE$5,000
ANCHOR BAPTIST CHURCH MINISTRIES$5,000
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION$5,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
MERCY CHEFS$2,500
AMERICARES$2,500
THE CARTER CENTER$1,000
CHAPMAN ESTATE FOUNDATION$1,000
JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS$1,000
ANIMAL SHELTER TO RIVERBANK$100
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, 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%MERCY CHEFS: $3k → 20%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

NY
CT
CA
UT
VA
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 15 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$255k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
InternationalArts & CultureAnimalsHealthReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +134%
  • PW
    Pacific Wildlife Care
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +174%
  • WH
    WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +19%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Memorial Hospital Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

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4
Sutter Coast Hospital

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
7
Pacific Central Coast Health Centers

Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…

Health
8
Mills-Peninsula Hospital Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Sutter Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
11
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS: $27,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $11,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS: $10,000 · OtherFIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELSThe Foundation at Hearst Castle: $5,725 · OtherThe Foundation at Hearst Cas…ANCHOR BAPTIST CHURCH MINISTRIES: $5,000 · OtherANCHOR BAPTIST CHURCH MINIST…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPacific Legal Foundation: $5,000 · OtherPacific Legal Foundation+9 more: $10,470 · Other+9 morePacific Wildlife Care: $40,000 · AnimalsPacific Wildlife CareWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $23,250 · AnimalsWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY I…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $52,500 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSECHAPMAN ESTATE FOUNDATION: $16,000 · Arts & CultureCHAPMAN ESTATE F…FRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF AVILA…BALLET WEST: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET WESTUkrainian Action: $20,000 · InternationalUkrainian Ac…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRA…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICARES F…THE CARTER CENTER INC: $4,500 · InternationalTHE CARTER C…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalFRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $23,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · Education
Other$79,695Animals$63,250Religion$52,500Arts & Culture$46,000International$35,500Health$23,100Education$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 budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $52,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Wildlife Care: $40,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetWOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $23,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFRENCH HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $23,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUkrainian Action: $20,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetCHAPMAN ESTATE FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF AVILA PIER FOAP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBALLET WEST: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIVE CITIES MEALS ON WHEELS: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Foundation at Hearst Castle: $5,725 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY CHEFS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARROYO GRANDE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100 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…The Dorf Foundation I…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation San Luis ObispoCA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Dorf Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–20%
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 30 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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