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The Brown Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$84M
Granted FY2025still arriving
222
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$122MArts & Culture$83MHealth$59MPhilanthropy$50MRecreation & Sports$44MHuman Services$25MEnvironment$17MCommunity Improvement$16MOther$0
02FY2025 · 222 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k63 grants · $2.0M
  • $50k–250k117 grants · $9.4M
  • $250k+42 grants · $73M
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
National Philanthropic Trust$11,000,000
Harris Health Strategic Fund$10,000,000
Precinct4Forward$7,500,000
YES Prep Public Schools$7,000,000
Hermann Park Conservancy$6,000,000
Greater Houston Community Foundation$5,000,000
Houston Museum of Natural Science$3,000,000
Coalition for the Homeless of HoustonHarris County$1,575,000
Thrive With Autism Foundation$1,550,000
Houston Parks Board$1,500,000
DePelchin Children's Center$1,500,000
Emancipation Park Conservancy$1,000,000
Good Reason Houston$1,000,000
Museum of Fine Arts Houston$929,500
Children's Museum Inc$875,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $19.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Uvalde Cisd Moving Forward Foundation: $600k → 25%ChildSafe: $100k → 16%ChildSafe: $75k → 16%Memorial Assistance Ministries: $1.5M → 16%Kids' Meals Inc: $1.4M → 16%Worktexas Training Center: $100k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $340k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $310k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $75k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $60k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $60k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $60k → 16%Wesley Community Center Inc: $60k → 16%Foster Care Advocacy Center: $75k → 16%Foster Care Advocacy Center: $75k → 16%Foster Care Advocacy Center: $75k → 16%Casa Mateo: $150k → 16%Covenant House Texas: $2.3M → 16%Covenant House Texas: $250k → 16%The Women's Home: $70k → 16%The Women's Home: $70k → 16%The Women's Home: $70k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $1.2M → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $341k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $75k → 16%Summerhouse Houston: $100k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $250k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $150k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $250k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $250k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $250k → 16%Collaborative for Children: $200k → 16%BakerRipley: $250k → 16%BakerRipley: $250k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $1.5M → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $650k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $450k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $250k → 16%DePelchin Children's Center: $150k → 16%Friends of the Children-Houston: $75k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $1.0M → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $84k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $75k → 16%Northwest Assistance Ministries: $75k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $75k → 16%Precinct2gether Inc: $500k → 16%Houston Area Womens Center: $75k → 16%BridgeYear: $100k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The Brown Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Brown Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.2% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$355M · 507 repeat orgs$52M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

507 repeat relationships — 197 still active in FY2025, 310 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

507
314

Total granted

$355M
$32M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

88%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • HP
    Houston Parks Board
    5× · 2021–2025 · $32M · revenue +92% · 44% of their budget
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    4× · 2021–2024 · $25M · revenue +32%
  • BB
    Buffalo Bayou Partnership Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $15M · revenue +177% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • PV
    Prairie View AM University
    one grant, 2021 · $4.0M
  • EF
    EQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +23%
  • MA
    Memorial Assistance Ministries
    one grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue 0%

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.

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Houston Local Information Initiative Inc

The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.

Arts & Culture
2
Houston Independent School District Foundation

The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…

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3
The Heritage Society

The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…

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4
Central Houston Inc

See schedule ocentral houston champions a thriving downtown by connecting influential leaders through initiatives that advance the future of business and community for all.

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5
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
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Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
7
Art Colony Association Inc

Art Colony Association provides art experiences and education for the greater Houston community by bringing diverse artists to urban Bayou City Art Festivals and supporting local non-profit organizations.

Arts & Culture
8
Hill Country Montessori School Inc

Provide quality education for students from pre school through middle school using the Montessori method of learning and teaching.

Education
9
Made Houston

MADE Houston was formed to create a school community focused on nurturing and developing the unique academic and social needs of students with learning differences and to successfully transition students into mainstream schools.

Education
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Bosque School

To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.

Education
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Community Information Now

Community information now (cinow) provides data, tools, analysis, and training to inform decisions to improve texas communities. cinow's vision is improved lives and decreased disparities through democratized data.

Community Improvement
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The Fay School

See Schedule O. The Fay School ("the School") is a nonsectarian, not-for-profit, co-educational school in which children of diverse talents and backgrounds with strong academic abilities are offered a high-quality education in a secure,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Ballet Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Christian Youth CampsSchool District FoundationsSenior Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterDevelopmental Disabilities …Military Veterans SupportYouth Mentoring ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportDomestic Violence ServicesCommunity Food PantriesJewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Christian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsYmca Youth DevelopmentPublic Library OperationsFaith-Based Social ServicesEquine Therapy ProgramsYouth Development ServicesYouth Development CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Addiction Recovery ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesCancer Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Dance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Local History MuseumsFood Banks and PantriesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%4%<5yr16%8%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr13%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%12%<5yr16%9%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr10%28%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%5/730
the rest of the field
15%
20,230/136,074

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

687 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. 687 of the 845 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
119
Early backer (in before they grew)
676/687
Grantees still filing
403/687
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Houston Parks Board — $32,335,000 · PhilanthropyHouston Parks BoardCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND — $30,000,000 · PhilanthropyCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $22,000,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $21,295,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUN…SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $5,122,858 · Philanthropy+3 more — $1,637,500 · PhilanthropyBaylor College of Medicine — $25,234,000 · EducationBaylor College of Med…YES Prep Public Schools Inc — $7,310,875 · EducationYES Prep Public Schoo…The Kinkaid School Inc — $5,422,000 · EducationThe Kinkaid School In…HARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $4,500,000 · EducationHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOL…Teach for America Inc — $4,083,180 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — $4,014,500 · Education+37 more — $29,133,632 · Education+37 moreHouston Museum of Natural Science — $5,651,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Museum of N…Houston Symphony Society — $5,550,000 · Arts & CultureHouston Symphony So…THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $5,371,515 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSEUM OF FINE …Menil Foundation Inc — $5,047,200 · Arts & CultureMenil Foundation In…Houston Grand Opera Association Inc — $4,620,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Grand Opera…Houston Ballet Foundation — $4,617,500 · Arts & CultureHouston Ballet Foun…Contemporary Arts Museum Houston — $3,701,930 · Arts & CultureThe Orange Show Foundation — $3,492,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $3,010,682 · Arts & CultureALLEY THEATRE — $2,986,150 · Arts & Culture+39 more — $27,928,944 · Arts & Culture+39 moreSt John's School — $10,653,500 · OtherSt John's SchoolTHE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL — $5,075,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION FOR …The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center — $5,030,300 · OtherThe University of T…Prairie View AM University — $4,005,000 · OtherPrairie View AM Uni…The Houston Food Bank — $4,004,500 · OtherThe Houston Food Ba…EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL — $2,809,500 · OtherCamp For All Foundation — $4,505,000 · OtherCamp For All Founda…THRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION — $2,550,000 · Other+51 more — $33,604,729 · Other+51 moreBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $15,258,000 · EnvironmentBuffalo B…Memorial Park Conservancy Inc — $7,570,050 · EnvironmentMemorial …Hermann Park Conservancy — $6,011,000 · EnvironmentHermann P…Houston Botanic Garden — $1,550,866 · EnvironmentWillow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy — $1,500,000 · Environment+8 more — $4,486,750 · Environment+8 morePRECINCT4FORWARD — $7,500,000 · Human ServicesDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $3,190,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $2,760,900 · Human ServicesHouston Area Women's Center — $1,907,000 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC — $1,735,700 · Human ServicesMemorial Assistance Ministries — $1,500,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES — $1,358,955 · Human ServicesCollaborative for Children — $1,350,000 · Human ServicesBakerRipley — $1,276,500 · Human ServicesWESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC OF HOUSTON TEXAS — $965,000 · Human Services+5 more — $2,134,250 · Human ServicesHARRIS HEALTH STRATEGIC FUND — $10,000,000 · HealthTexas Children's Hospital — $2,145,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc — $913,000 · HealthMEADOWS MENTAL HEALTH POLICY INSTITUTE FOR TEXAS — $750,000 · HealthTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON — $675,000 · HealthTIRR Foundation — $600,000 · Health+7 more — $2,304,770 · Health
Philanthropy$112,390,358Education$79,698,187Arts & Culture$71,977,921Other$72,237,529Environment$36,376,666Human Services$25,678,305Health$17,387,770

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHouston Parks Board — $32,335,000 over 5y, 44% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND — $30,000,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine — $25,234,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $22,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $21,295,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetBuffalo Bayou Partnership Inc — $15,258,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetSt John's School — $10,653,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetHARRIS HEALTH STRATEGIC FUND — $10,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc — $7,570,050 over 4y, 40% of budgetYES Prep Public Schools Inc — $7,310,875 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $6,011,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science — $5,651,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetHouston Symphony Society — $5,550,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetThe Kinkaid School Inc — $5,422,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON — $5,371,515 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION — $5,122,858 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR JONES HALL — $5,075,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetMenil Foundation Inc — $5,047,200 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHouston Grand Opera Association Inc — $4,620,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetHouston Ballet Foundation — $4,617,500 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetCamp For All Foundation — $4,505,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetHARMONY PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $4,500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $4,083,180 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — $4,014,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank — $4,004,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetContemporary Arts Museum Houston — $3,701,930 over 5y, 23% of budgetThe Orange Show Foundation — $3,492,000 over 5y, 42% of budgetDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTER — $3,190,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART — $3,010,682 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetALLEY THEATRE — $2,986,150 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TEXAS — $2,760,900 over 5y, 17% of budgetTHRIVE WITH AUTISM FOUNDATION — $2,550,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetGood Reason Houston Inc — $2,550,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HOUSTON INC — $2,500,070 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetEQUITABLE FACILITIES FUND INC — $2,500,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTexas Children's Hospital — $2,145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew Hope Housing Inc — $2,075,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetKIPP Texas Inc — $2,020,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHouston Area Women's Center — $1,907,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetKIDS' MEALS INC — $1,735,700 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County — $1,735,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION — $1,600,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetCENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN MILITAR HISTORY — $1,586,600 over 4y, 32% of budgetHouston Botanic Garden — $1,550,866 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetACCESS GROUP INC — $1,547,300 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMemorial Assistance Ministries — $1,500,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetWillow Waterhole Greenspace Conservancy — $1,500,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetEDISON ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 over 1y, 40% of budget
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.

Houston Endowment IncAlbert & Ethel Herzst…The Powell FoundationThe Elkins FoundationStrake FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…Houston Arts AllianceMD Anderson FoundationJohn P McGovern Found…The William Stamps Fa…Baxter Trust Co Priva…Greater Houston Commu…
Houston Endowment IncTX182.2× affinity133 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Houston Endowment Inc · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Powell Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Strake Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Houston Arts Alliance · MD Anderson Foundation · John P McGovern Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Baxter Trust Co Private Foundation Services · Greater Houston Community 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 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    71report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Brown Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Brown Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 845 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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