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The Eileen D Brown Charitable Trust

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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$300
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Health$10kAnimals$5kHuman Services$5kEnvironment$4kFood & Nutrition$3kHousing & Shelter$3kReligion$3kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$300
GRISWOLD YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$300
SLATER LIBRARY$300
ST MARY'S FOOD PANTRY$300
THE LAST GREEN VALLEY$300
GRISWOLD SENIOR CENTER$300
CT AUDOBON SOCIETY$250
PAUCHAUG POND WEED CONTROL ASSOCIATION$250
UCONN CAHNR EXTENSION FOUNDATION (FUND 0020542)$250
FRIENDS OF PACHAUG FOREST$200
FRANCISCAN FRIARS$50
02The need
03

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 (FY17–18, $800) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $300 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

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.
$40k · 53 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

53 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
22

Total granted

$40k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+46%

Still filing today

32%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $850 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationPublic BenefitOther

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

  • LT
    LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +51%
  • PO
    PAWS OF WAR INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1k · revenue ×14
  • SL
    SLATER LIBRARY CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TF
    TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $500
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $265 · revenue +46%

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.

1
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
2
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
3
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
4
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

8
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
9
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
10
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…

11
Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance Inc

This entity is dedicated to providing hope and support for brain tumor patients and caregivers, while advancing public awareness of brain tumors, quality of care, and brain tumor research.

Health
12
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Christian Youth CampsVeteran Support ServicesFood Pantries & AssistanceCancer Support OrganizationsPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Health CentersYouth Sports Booster Organi…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,539

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.

04the grantee network

23 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
20/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $2,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $2,300 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYFRANCISCAN FRIARS — $2,300 · OtherFRANCISCAN FRIARSST MARY'S FOOD PANTRY — $1,675 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR — $1,500 · Other+55 more — $22,495 · Other+55 moreTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $900 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $800 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $700 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $700 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $200 · HealthPAWS OF WAR INC — $1,450 · AnimalsKITTY HARBOR — $700 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals Inc — $265 · AnimalsVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $200 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY — $150 · AnimalsLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $2,050 · EnvironmentTHE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC — $400 · Environment+1 more — $25 · EnvironmentSLATER LIBRARY CORPORATION — $1,300 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $134 · EducationFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC — $800 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INC — $500 · Human ServicesUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $550 · Public Benefit
Other$32,620Health$3,300Animals$2,765Environment$2,475Education$1,434Human Services$1,300Public Benefit$550

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $2,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS OF WAR INC — $1,450 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSLATER LIBRARY CORPORATION — $1,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $1,075 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC — $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC — $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKITTY HARBOR — $700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC — $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC — $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC — $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc — $265 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $134 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC
  • Who funds SLATER LIBRARY CORPORATION
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN
  • Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds KITTY HARBOR
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC
  • Who funds THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC THE LAST GREEN VALLEY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 organization The Eileen D Brown Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc72% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc42% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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