· Private foundation
Hl Brown Jr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $422k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $575k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Texas | $550,000 |
| Nantucket Historical Assoc | $535,000 |
| The Fort Worth Zoo | $200,000 |
| Permian Basin Behavioral Center | $100,000 |
| Trinity School | $75,000 |
| Midland ISD Education Foundation | $50,000 |
| San Antonio River Foundation | $50,000 |
| The Buckley School | $50,000 |
| Leland Stanford Junior University | $50,000 |
| Wharton School of Business | $45,000 |
| The Squared Network | $41,667 |
| Young Life of Midland | $35,000 |
| MD Anderson | $30,000 |
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation | $25,000 |
| School Year Aboard | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NHNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION3× · 2020–2024 · $631k · revenue +180%
- MIMIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $225k · revenue +137%
- MOMUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +36%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +88%- MSMOUNT SINAI MED CENTERone grant, 2020 · $125k
- PBPERMIAN BASIN ANIMAL ADVOCATESone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -39% · 28% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
Midland school provides a distinctive co-educational boarding school experience to a diverse student body in grades 9-12. through study and work, midland teaches the value of a lifetime of learning, self-reliance, simplicity,…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The baylor oral health foundation was established to foster and support the activities and program of the texas a&m university college of dentistry (the college) to provide financial support for excellence at the college, and to advance…
To create transformative learning experiences that empower a diverse community of students to lead lives of intellectual curiosity, personal integrity, and compassionate contribution to a more just world.
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Country Day School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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.
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 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 141 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE PLACE OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds AMON CARTER MUSEUM OF WESTERN ART ↗
- Who funds HIGH SKY CHILDRENS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN ANIMAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PERMIAN BASIN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Beal Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Yarborough Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Pevehouse Family Foundation · The Henry Foundation · Paul and Katherine Morrow Family Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Hahl Proctor Charitable Trust · Walter & Jere Hubbard Family 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 Hl Brown Jr Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
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.
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