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The Browning 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Browning Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Browning Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $25k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
| Walpole Elementary School | $1,000 |
| WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $1,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FREEZING FUN FOR FAMILIES INC | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000 |
| CIRCLE INC | $1,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BURLINGTON | $1,000 |
| ELM CITY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FALL MOUNTAIN FRIENDLY MEALS | $1,000 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $1,000 |
| ST MONICA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| THREE ANGELS FUND | $750 |
| RENITA MARSHALL HELPING HANDS FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
53 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 88% 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
- VFVERMONT FOODBANK7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +50%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +145%- GMGREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SEST ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY PARISHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEone grant, 2018 · $3k
- FFRASERone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +25%
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.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
Serve as the governing organization for physicians who are employed to provide clinical services to affiliated member hospitals (the "affiliated hospitals") of the university of vermont health network ("uvm health network").
Southwestern vermont health care exists to provide exceptional health care and comfort to the people we serve. see schedule o for additional details.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To care for and comfort our patients, residents, and their loved ones and to improve the health status of the communities we serve. the purpose of the organization is also to promote and support the development and maintenance of a highly…
To provide comprehensive, high-quality home healthcare to the community to all who need services within our financial resources and through the generosity of the communities served by the vna.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vermont Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 99 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 RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Myositis Association ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds FALL MOUNTAIN FRIENDLY MEALS ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds WALPOLE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GRANARA SKERRY TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc
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 Browning Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc — 81% of income from government
- Turning Point of Franklin County I — 71% of income from government
- Good Samaritan Haven Inc — 63% of income from government
- Circle Inc — 60% of income from government
- Vermont Granite Museum of Barre — 19% of income from government
- Green Mountain United Way Inc — 15% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc — 4% of income from government
- Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
- Aldrich Public Library — 2% of income from government
- Central Vermont Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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