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The Craig and Vicki Brown 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.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.2MPhilanthropy$500kEmployment$449kEducation$200kCrime & Legal$50kHuman Services$50kReligion$45k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION$25,000
CANCER SURVIVORS PARK$25,000
PRISMA HEALTH$20,000
THE CONFLICT CENTER$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $25k → 10%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $25k → 10%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 7 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.9M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+8%

Still filing today

86%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthEmploymentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalReligionOther
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

  • CS
    CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +110%
  • TC
    THE CONFLICT CENTER
    3× · 2021–2024 · $50k · revenue +31%
  • PH
    Prisma Health
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • UM
    UNITED MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2020 · $45k · revenue +8%
  • ME
    MEDICAL EXPERIENCE ACADEMY ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
2
Musc Strategic Ventures

To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…

Health
3
Unity Health Care Inc

The organization's mission is to offer a citywide network of quality health and human services to the medically underserved regardless of race, ethnic background or ability to pay.

Health
4
Confluence Public Health Alliance

None

Health
5
Community Memorial Hospital Association

Your neighbors caring for you.

Health
6
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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7
Center for Improving Value in Health Care

To equip partners and communities in colorado and across the nation with the resources, services and unbiased data needed to improve health and health care. we help communities, organizations and individuals identify opportunities to…

Health
8
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
9
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
10
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
11
Community Health Councils Inc

Community health councils, inc. dba rising communities' mission is to co-develop transformational social equity models and systems in service to bipoc communities, to help each person thrive.

Health
12
Chc Creating Healthier Communities

We envision a world where every person in every community has an opportunity to live their healthiest life.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cancer Survivors Park Alliance; the most unlike its peers is The Conflict Center. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $1,052,500 · HealthHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATIONCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $35,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF…SUMMER SEARCH: $449,141 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCHMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · OtherMICHIGAN S…MEDICAL EXPERIENCE ACADEMY ENDOWMENT: $15,000 · OtherMEDICAL EX…+1 more: $5,000 · OtherUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONFLICT CENTER: $50,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED MINISTRIES: $45,000 · Religion
Health$1,137,500Philanthropy$500,000Employment$449,141Other$220,000Human Services$50,000Crime & Legal$50,000Religion$45,000

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 budgetHYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION: $1,052,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $500,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $449,141 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CONFLICT CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED MINISTRIES: $45,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPrisma Health: $35,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds HYDROCEPHALUS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONFLICT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Prisma Health ↗

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.

Dabo's All in Team FoundationSC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Craig and Vicki Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Craig and Vicki Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 11 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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