· Private foundation
The Brown Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENVILLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $100,500 |
| DARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DARKE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| DARKE COUNTY AGICULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| FREE STORE FOOD BANK-CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| LIFE UNTETHERED INC | $1,000 |
| DARKE COUNTY PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,000 |
| GHS VOCAL MUSIC BOOSTERS | $1,000 |
| PURRFECT HAVEN PET SHELTER | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MURALS OF GREENVILLE OHIO | $1,000 |
| MAIN STREET GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| GREENVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $500 |
| GREENVILLE CITY SCHOOLS | $300 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- DCDARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +20%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENVILLEINC9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +84%
- AOANNIE OAKLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- DCDARKE CO HISTORICAL SOCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +61%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Preserve history of starke county indiana
Protect and revitalize the historically and culturally significant commercial area of danville, ohio.
To enhance the economic and cultural vitality of the greenport village business district.
To foster interest in the agriculture community and to bring the community together to better understand how to raise and produce agricultural products.
To provide a place for youth and residences of muskingum county to display, sell and buy agricultural products produced within muskingum county. to provide live entertainment and a social gathering for the residents of the county.
To give young women who find themselves in unexpected pregnancy the guidance, support, and education needed to enable them to make responsible decisions regarding parenting.
To preserve and share local history
To collect and preserve any and all historic materials books artifacts machinery etc.
Historical Society Museum
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Darke County Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Purfect Haven Inc. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 31% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 DARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DARKE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE INSTRUMENTAL BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNIE OAKLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE UNTETHERED ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds DARKE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds YOLO OF DARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BEAR'S MILL INC ↗
- Who funds PURFECT HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds DARKE COUNTY VISITORS BUREAU 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: Lydia Schaurer Memorial Trust Fund · Harry D Stephens Memorial Inc · Ketrow Foundation · 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 Inc 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.
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.
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