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The Eileen and Harold Brown Foundation at a glance

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The Eileen and Harold 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$349kHousing & Shelter$275kHealth$164kPhilanthropy$106kReligion$100kInternational$86kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PITZER COLLEGE$200,000
BROWN CHARITY FUND$150,000
PITZER COLLEGE$100,000
LOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING CORP$100,000
OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE$100,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND$100,000
PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATON$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$100,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$50,000
FEEDING AMERICA$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$22,449
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION$5,000
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ART MUSEUM$2,500
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 (FY17–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE TEEN PROJECT: $500 → 14%UNITED IN HARMONY: $500 → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
DC
GA
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 12 repeat orgs$551k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
8

Total granted

$1.7M
$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+97%

Still filing today

58%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $408k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PC
    Pitzer College
    4× · 2017–2023 · $496k · revenue +49%
  • OC
    OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE
    4× · 2018–2023 · $425k · revenue +33%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    3× · 2017–2023 · $135k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • BO
    BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $106k
  • TC
    THE CALTECH Y
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -2%
  • CC
    CHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $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
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
6
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Pro Publica Inc

Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…

Arts & Culture
9
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
10
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
11
Scripps College

To educate women to develop their intellect and talents through active participation in a community of scholars, so that as graduates they may contribute to society through public and private lives of leadership, service, integrity and…

Education
12
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partners in School Innovation; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

17 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. 17 of the 27 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
15/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pitzer College: $496,000 · EducationPitzer CollegeOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $425,000 · EducationOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE+1 more: $25,000 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $348,449 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESBROWN CHARITY FUND: $150,000 · OtherBROWN CHARITY FUNDLOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING CORP: $125,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FAMILY HOUSING CORPBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $105,569 · OtherBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+12 more: $74,000 · Other+12 moreChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $135,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 · ReligionSave The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $10,000 · InternationalFeeding America: $50,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$946,000Other$803,018Health$140,000Philanthropy$100,500Religion$100,000International$85,000Food & Nutrition$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPitzer College: $496,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE: $425,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALTECH Y: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED IN HARMONY: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eileen and Harold Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eileen and Harold 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%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Eileen and Harold Brown Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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