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The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85k
Granted FY2020
11
Grants FY2020
11
Organizations funded FY2020
45%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$36,549
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
3
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 45% of the organizations The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EducationHuman ServicesReligionOther
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
FY202011$85k45%
FY20199$38k44%
FY20184$17k50%
FY20175$33kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Religion$78kPhilanthropy$37kEducation$25kHuman Services$18kPublic Benefit$10kInternational$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Path Foundation$41,00045%
Big Oak Ranch Inc$12,80030%
Child Evangelism Fellowship$10,50031%
Marion Military Institute$10,0001n/a
Valiant Cross Academy$10,0002n/a
Judson College$5,00010%
Public School Bible Study Committee$1,0001n/a
Children's Protective Association Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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.

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About The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc

How much does The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc give?
The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $84,599 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Religion (45%), Philanthropy (21%), Education (15%).
Who are The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: The Path Foundation ($41k), Big Oak Ranch Inc ($13k), Child Evangelism Fellowship ($11k).
Does The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc based?
The Gene & Charlotte Brown Foundation Inc is based in AL.

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 16 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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