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The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family 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.

$44k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$80k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving4$44k75%
FY20236$118k50%
FY20225$125k20%
FY202115$159k47%
FY202018$162k50%
FY201918$183k50%
FY201828$153k75%
FY201733$313kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$310kHealth$264kPhilanthropy$161kCivil Rights$127kInternational$81kAnimals$77kArts & Culture$58kCrime & Legal$45kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
OR
CA
CO
KS
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($750k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnti-Defamation League: $125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor Health Care System Foundation: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe McCombs School of Business Foundation: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $40,030 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Other Ones Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Aspen Institute Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLupus Research Alliance Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Aspen Animal Shelter: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Family Place: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStaying Alive Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Contemporary: $2,990 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrighter Bites Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas 24 Hour Club Inc: $1,564 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDallas Architecture Forum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHolocaust Museum Houston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Jewish Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Crystal Charity Ball: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Public Broadcasting Inc: $620 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Giving Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Methodist Hospital Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Katy Trail Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPreservation Dallas Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Harry S Moss Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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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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.

About The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation

How much does The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation give?
The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $43,900 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (21%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Anti-Defamation League ($125k), Baylor Health Care System Foundation ($95k), Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ($80k).
Does The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Eugene McDermott Foundation.
Where is The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation based?
The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation is based in AZ.

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 89 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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