· Private foundation
The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND INC | $24,000 |
| HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC | $20,000 |
| KIPP METRO ATLANTA COLLABORATIVE INC | $20,000 |
| FOR THE KIDS ORG | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $15,000 |
| COBB LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH INC | $15,000 |
| FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF - FACT RE | $15,000 |
| KENYA KEYS | $11,000 |
| KATES CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| CREATE YOUR DREAMS INC | $10,000 |
| L E A D INC | $10,000 |
| GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- KMKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue +106%
- GSGeorgia State University Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +189%
- ACATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +248%
Funded once
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +113%- XBX BOYS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $16k
- CRCRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
The mission of the atlanta community food bank is to engage, educate and empower our community to fight hunger. our bold goal is to see that all people in our service area have access to the nutritious meals they need when they need them.
Hope atlanta seeks to help georgians avoid homelessness and hunger through a comprehensive approach that equips them with the tools for lifelong stability.our vision is to end hunger and homelessness for every georgian.
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…
Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is X Boys Preparatory School 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 91 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 Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH ↗
- Who funds KENYA KEYS ↗
- Who funds FUGEES FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Create Your Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds FOR THE KIDS ORG ↗
- Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CARROLL COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds WASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ OF ATLANTA CO ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKGREEN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds DRAWCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds X BOYS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY INC ↗
- Who funds COBB LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIREDU 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · McKesson Foundation Inc · Jack and Anne Glenn Char Fdn · Patterson Family Foundation Inc · Frances Wood Wilson Foundation Inc
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 Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc 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.
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
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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