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.

The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation

The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% 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

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $4k
$10k–50k1 grant · $40k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$80k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN	$40,000
UT FOUNDATION	$2,500
Individual grant recipient	$1,200
HADDASAH KANSAS CITY CHAPTER	$200

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$951k · 21 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$951k

$303k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%

+19%

Still filing today

48%

39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalEducationOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
4× · 2020–2023 · $125k · revenue +48%
BH
Baylor Health Care System Foundation
4× · 2019–2022 · $95k · revenue +44%
FF
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc
4× · 2020–2023 · $80k · revenue +117%

Funded once

CC
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE BS&W HEALTH - KINKEADE CAMPUS FUND
one grant, 2017 · $70k
TO
THE OTHER ONES FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +302%
TL
TODD & LAURIE PLATT SCHOLARSHIP FUND
one grant, 2017 · $25k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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.

Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council

The mission of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council is to drive evidence-based improvement in patient care and health equity throughout the region.

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Dallas Seminary Foundation

To support the mission of Dallas Theological Seminary by offering charitable planned giving and other related services to friends of the Seminary.

Education

Dallas County Medical Society

The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.

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The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

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…

Education

Glasstire

Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.

Arts & Culture

Aclu Foundation of Texas Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…

Civil Rights

Dallas Bar Association

The Dallas Bar Association is a nonprofit corporation chartered by the State of Texas to protect and advance the professional interests of persons licensed to practice law in the Dallas area, to improve the relations between the Bench, the…

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Dallas Citizens Council

To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.

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Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment

Episcopal Foundation of Dallas

The foundation's mission is to strengthen and support faith communities by partnering wise investments with purposeful giving.

Religion

American Civil Liberties Union of Texas Inc

The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.

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Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dallas Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Planned Parenthood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 89 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

27/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$785,915Health$133,100Civil Rights$125,000International$80,500Education$70,000Arts & Culture$56,490Human Services$29,250

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joshua M and Inette S Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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