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The Joe W and Dorothy D 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.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
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01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of The Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,489,501
Median grant
1
States reached
$128M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEE GRANT SCHEDULE$5,489,501
02Your 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.

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Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health
2
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
3
Rebuilding Together New Orleans

Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.

Philanthropy
4
Greater New Orleans Development Foundation

To foster regional economic development and create quality jobs within the metropolitan new orleans area.

Community Improvement
5
New Orleans Startup Fund Inc

The new orleans startup fund is a seed capital fund established by the greater new orleans businesses and financial leaders to accelerate the growth of early-stage, innovative businesses into venture-ready companies. the startup funds'…

Community Improvement
6
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans Inc

Neighborhood housing services of new orleans, inc. revitalizes communities by increasing the number of homeowners and transforming vacant or substandard properties into sustainable homeownership. we improve quality of life through informed…

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7
2222 Tulane Avenue Apartments Nonprofit Inc

As a related entity of unity of greater new orleans, 2222 tulane avenue apartments nonprofit has a mission to reduce, prevent and end homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
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University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education
9
Invest in Louisiana

To provide sound analysis of state fiscal issues to promote economic prosperity, a rising standard of living, and the opportunity for all citizens to reach their highest potential.

Public Benefit
10
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
11
New Orleans Public Library Foundation

Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.

Education
12
St James Place of Baton Rouge Foundation

St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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 backsteadyDomestic Violence and Sexua…Affordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Homeless Servic…Environmental Advocacy and …Volunteer Fire & RescueFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Food Pantries and AssistanceLocal History MuseumsCollege Foundation SupportCommunity FoundationsVeteran Support ServicesHospice and Palliative CareUnited Way AffiliatesPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…Government Accountability &…Girls Stem Education Progra…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Childhood Cancer SupportDevelopmental Disabilities …Classical Music OrchestrasYmca Community CentersCharter and Independent Sch…Community Hospital SystemsPregnancy Support CentersAnimal Rescue and Shelter
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 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr12%23%35–55yr16%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/117
the rest of the field
17%
3,574/20,892

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.

03the grantee network

99 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. 99 of the 238 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)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/99
Grantees still filing
69/99
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $13,289,456 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSEE GRANT SCHEDULE — $12,830,595 · OtherSEE GRANT SCHEDULE+165 more — $2,416,810 · Other+165 moreThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $256,000 · Science & TechJACKSON HOLE TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP — $17,500 · Science & TechTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $228,964 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $9,000 · Arts & CultureFELLOWSHIP OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCHERS — $152,886 · HealthST VINCENT DE PAUL COMM PHARMACY — $30,000 · HealthThe Hospice Foundation of the South Inc — $10,000 · HealthPROJECT LAZARUS — $7,500 · HealthANGELS' PLACE INC — $7,500 · Health+3 more — $16,250 · HealthTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $155,064 · EducationMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 · EducationLSU FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $4,646 · EducationCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $80,000 · Human ServicesSTEM LIBRARY LAB — $63,500 · Human ServicesFaith House Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesEDEN CENTERS — $20,000 · Human Services+8 more — $17,000 · Human ServicesATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC — $72,500 · EnvironmentPONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY — $20,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · Environment
Other$28,536,861Science & Tech$273,500Arts & Culture$237,964Health$224,136Education$209,710Human Services$200,500Environment$93,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies — $256,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $228,964 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $155,064 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCHERS — $152,886 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS — $80,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC — $72,500 over 1y, 32% of budgetHOME OF GRACE CORPORATION — $60,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HOLY CROSS — $59,740 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthshore Food Bank — $51,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ORLEANS POLICE AND JUSTICE FOUNDATION INC — $36,033 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCAMP BON COEUR INC — $33,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL COMM PHARMACY — $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF VENTURA COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSHARED HOUSING OF NEW ORLEANS — $23,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA — $20,402 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFaith House Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDEN CENTERS — $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Acadiana — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAJUN NAVY 2016 — $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetJACKSON HOLE TECHNOLOGY PARTNERSHIP — $17,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE LOUISE S MCGEHEE SCHOOL — $17,385 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBASTION COMMUNITY OF RESILIENCE — $13,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAudubon Nature Institute Inc — $11,039 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GRACE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE — $11,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Hospice Foundation of the South Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEW ORLEANS NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDULAC COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetLSU FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER NEW ORLEANS — $8,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELECTRIC GIRLS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT LAZARUS — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER NEW ORLEANS SPORTS FOUNDATION — $6,864 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLYNN MEADOWS DISCOVERY CENTER — $6,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER — $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKWAY PARTNERS PROGRAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOPS 8 INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALAMO BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYOUTH REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS — $3,610 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC — $3,020 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Baptist Community Min…Shell USA Company Fou…Blue Cross & Blue Shi…Eugenie & Joseph Jone…United Way of Southea…J Edgar Monroe Founda…Gayle and Tom Benson …Community Foundation …Goldring Family Found…Louise H Moffett Fami…Gustaf Westfeldt McIl…
The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA71.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Shell USA Company Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · J Edgar Monroe Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Acadiana · Goldring Family Foundation · Louise H Moffett Family Foundation · Gustaf Westfeldt McIlhenny Family Founda

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.

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How do I get to The Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Joe W and Dorothy D 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 238 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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