How much did The Brownie Foundation grant in FY2025?

Youth Development$353kEducation$45kHuman Services$28kPhilanthropy$15kHealth$5kPublic Benefit$5kCivil Rights$5kArts & Culture$3kEnvironment$1kOther$282k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

short-term emergencycanyon

2021

short-term emergency

2022

—

2023

—

2024

—

2025

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k4 grants · $90k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

PEAK ABUNDANCE$40,000
FRONT RANGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION FOR EDUC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$20,000
TRANS CONTINENTAL PIPELINE$10,000
COMMUNITY AGAINST SUBSTANCE ABUSEINC$5,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 12%. 24% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$666k · 5 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$666k

$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%

+57%

Still filing today

80%

26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

TI
TEENS INC
3× · 2022–2024 · $353k · revenue +31%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +40%
AF
ARTISTS FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION INTL INC
6× · 2019–2024 · $15k · revenue +204%

Funded once

CC
CANYON CARES OF COAL CREEK CANYON
one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +8%
PD
PLAN DE SALUD DEL VALLE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +37%
VC
V Capron
one grant, 2021 · $5k

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.

Colorado Coalition Against

Advocates against sexual assault

Crime & Legal

The Equity Network

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Equality Utah

The organization pursues educational, lobbying, and political activites in otder to further lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (lgtb)interests within utah.

Civil Rights

Northwest Network Btlg Survivors Abuse0

The Northwest Network of Bisexual Trans Lesbians and Gay Survivors of Abuse supports queer and trans survivors in reconnecting to their self-determination through advocacy-based counseling and community education.

Health

Somos Familia Valle

Somos Familia Valle is a local LGBTQ+ community organization dedicated to support, empower, and mobilize families, and allies for racial, gender, and economic justice in the San Fernando Valley.

Civil Rights

350 Colorado

To work locally to help build a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis and transition to a sustainable future.

Environment

Mutual Aid Partners

Mutual aid partners is a network that supports and connects grassroots efforts in mesa county colorado, by facilitating communication, education, boosting collaboration and accessibility to resources & volunteers.

Community Improvement

Advocates for Trans Equality Education

Advocates for trans equality fights for the legal and political rights of transgender people in america. leveraging decades of experience on the frontlines of power, we shift government and society towards a future where we are no less…

Civil Rights

Colorado Coalition Against Domestic

Advancing the well-being of all coloradans through relationships free from abuse and oppression.

Human Services

One Colorado Education Fund

One colorado education fund (ocef) is committed to securing and protecting equality and opportunity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (lgbt) coloradans and their families.

Civil Rights

Rainbow Advocacy

Civil Rights

Out & Equal

Social Science

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immigration Equality and the most unlike its peers is 350ORG. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Youth Development$352,795Other$291,449Education$45,250Human Services$27,600Philanthropy$15,350Health$5,000Public Benefit$5,000

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.

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.

Mile High United Way IncCO16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mile High United Way Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 organisation The Brownie 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PEAK ABUNDANCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 472309107 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PEAK ABUNDANCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Brownie Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Brownie Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Brownie Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brownie Foundation?

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The Brownie Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Brownie Foundation?

More from the funding graph