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The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc

The primary mission and exempt purpose of the eddie c. And c. Sylvia brown family foundation, inc. Is to support the charitable purpose of the baltimore community foundation, inc. Through the distribution of grants to non-profit organizations.

$153k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$128k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 14
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$108k45%
FY20248$81k38%
FY20226$63k33%
FY20217$4.3M43%
FY20208$3.1M25%
FY201914$2.6M29%
FY201811$1.1M9%
FY201713$1.3Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.9MArts & Culture$5.6MPhilanthropy$408kCivil Rights$91kYouth Development$91kPublic Benefit$36kCommunity Improvement$35kEnvironment$33kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Howard University: $3,750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBaltimore Museum of Art: $3,500,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetCenter Stage Associates Inc: $1,501,250 over 3y, 10% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $1,250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFriends School of Baltimore Inc: $500,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLiving Classrooms Foundation: $400,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBaltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEnoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City: $314,224 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaryland Institute: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChesapeake Shakespeare Company: $105,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAssociated Black Charities Inc: $91,344 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Girls Charter School Inc dba Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter: $86,663 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBaltimore School for the Arts Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOpen Society Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrt Reach Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThread Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCoastal Mountains Land Trust: $33,333 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ingenuity Project Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBaltimore Educational Scholarship Trust: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEveryman Theatre Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPaul's Place Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThere Goes My Hero Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYouth Empowerment Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFund for Educational Excellence Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamuel Ready Scholarships Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetArts Every Day Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWide Angle Youth Media Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBaltimore Design School Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSisters Circle Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD33.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · T Rowe Price Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Bunting Family Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family 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.

About The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc

How much does The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc give?
The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $127,500, out of $152,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Arts & Culture (42%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Howard University ($3.8M), Baltimore Museum of Art ($3.5M), Center Stage Associates Inc ($1.5M).
Does The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc, T Rowe Price Foundation.
Where is The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc based?
The Eddie C and C Sylvia Brown Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 34 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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