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The Joe W and Dorothy D Brown Foundation at a glance

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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
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01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$658kHealth$608kHuman Services$507kArts & Culture$391kScience & Tech$299kFood & Nutrition$206kAnimals$165kEnvironment$136kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
8
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northshore Community Foundation; 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.
03the grantee network

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $13,289,456 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSEE GRANT SCHEDULE: $12,830,595 · OtherSEE GRANT SCHEDULE+164 more: $2,415,810 · Other+164 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 · HealthANGELS' PLACE INC: $7,500 · HealthPROJECT LAZARUS: $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+9 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesATCHAFALAYA BASINKEEPER INC: $72,500 · EnvironmentPONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$28,535,861Science & Tech$273,500Arts & Culture$237,964Health$224,136Education$209,710Human Services$201,500Environment$93,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL COMM PHARMACY: $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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 budgetCAJUN NAVY 2016: $20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFaith House Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPONTCHARTRAIN CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEDEN CENTERS: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Acadiana: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEW ORLEANS NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDULAC COMMUNITY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe Hospice Foundation of the South Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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 budgetPARKWAY PARTNERS PROGRAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF COAST HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMO BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOPS 8 INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 238 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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