· Private foundation
The Joanne D Brown Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Youth Haven | $25,000 |
| Montgomery County Educational Foundation | $10,000 |
| Meeting Essential Needs With Dignity | $5,000 |
| Columbia High School Scholarship Fund | $2,000 |
| Overlook Foundation | $1,000 |
| Newark Beth Israel Medical Center | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- YHYOUTH HAVEN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $125k · revenue +19%
- GPGRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INC2× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +40%
- NCNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- TSTELLURIDE SCIENCEone grant, 2024 · $225k · revenue 0%
- DLDAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue -9%
- TFTELLURIDE FOUNDATION ANNUAL PLEDGEone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Nami palm beach county provides advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals and families affected by mental illness can build better lives.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
See schedule ocooper health system is an integrated health care delivery system serving the southern new jersey region. cooper health system's mission is to serve, to heal, and to educate. cooper accomplishes its mission through innovative…
"to help make naples the best place in america to work and live." the greater naples chamber of commerce (the chamber) is a non-profit organization providing services to our members and our community. we strive to fulill the needs of our…
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Columbia High School Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 63 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 TELLURIDE SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds DAVID LAWRENCE MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds GRAMERCY PARK BLOCK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jameson Animal Rescue Ranch ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds PATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
- Who funds We Care Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEETING ESSENTIAL NEEDS WITH DIGNITYINC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEWARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia High School Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Joanne D Brown 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.
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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