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The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$335k
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$458kYouth Development$268kHuman Services$263kRecreation & Sports$193kHealth$164kFood & Nutrition$122kEnvironment$88kArts & Culture$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $240k
$9,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND INC$24,000
KIPP METRO ATLANTA COLLABORATIVE INC$20,000
HEART OF OREGON CORPS INC$20,000
FOR THE KIDS ORG$15,000
COBB LIBRARY FOUNDATION$15,000
FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF - FACT RE$15,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH INC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$15,000
KENYA KEYS$11,000
GREENHOUSE SCHOLARS$10,000
CREATE YOUR DREAMS INC$10,000
GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
L E A D INC$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THORNWELL: $10k → 18%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $20k → 6%SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND INC: $24k → 13%THORNWELL: $5k → 18%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $15k → 6%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $5k → 14%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $10k → 6%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $5k → 14%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $8k → 13%SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $1k → 14%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $5k → 13%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $5k → 13%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $3k → 13%CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $2k → 13%KATES CLUB INC: $10k → 14%L E A D INC: $15k → 13%L E A D INC: $15k → 13%L E A D INC: $10k → 13%L E A D INC: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
IL
OR
WY
IA
OH
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NC
SC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 44 repeat orgs$399k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
33

Total granted

$1.4M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+11%

Still filing today

86%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • KM
    Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue +106%
  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $85k · revenue +189%
  • AC
    ATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +113%
  • XB
    X BOYS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • CR
    CRISTO REY ATLANTA JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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.

1
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

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…

Youth Development
2
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

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.…

Community Improvement
3
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Hope Atlanta Inc

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.

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5
Kidspeace National Centers of Georgia

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…

Human Services
6
Advocates for Children Inc

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…

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7
The Arc of Southwest Georgia Inc

Our mission is to create life-changing solutions for people with disabilities.

Human Services
8
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
9
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
10
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

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…

Civil Rights
11
Atlanta Committee for Progress Inc

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…

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12
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

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.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
53/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $106,000 · EducationKipp Metro Atlanta Coll…Georgia State University Foundation Inc: $85,000 · EducationGeorgia State Universit…KENYA KEYS: $58,000 · EducationKENYA KEYSGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $30,000 · EducationGREENHOUSE SCHOLARSINSPIREDU INC: $15,000 · EducationCOBB LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Education+7 more: $61,000 · Education+7 morePOSSE FOUNDATION - ATLANTA: $55,000 · OtherPOSSE FOUNDATION - ATLANTAUNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $53,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF - FACT RE: $50,000 · OtherFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF - F…CARROLLTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $40,000 · OtherCARROLLTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHCARROLL COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherCreate Your Dreams Inc: $50,000 · OtherCreate Your Dreams IncFUGEES FAMILY INC: $55,000 · OtherFUGEES FAMILY INC+39 more: $381,000 · Other+39 moreLEAD INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesLEAD INCCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHERN…SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesSPECIAL OPERA…CIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesCIRCLES OF WE…FREE BIKES 4 KIDZ OF ATLANTA CO: $20,000 · Human ServicesFREE BIKES 4 …X BOYS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesX BOYS PREPAR…THORNWELL: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHORNWELLSALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $11,000 · Human ServicesKATE'S CLUB INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentATLANTA CHA…GIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH: $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON TH…Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girl…Boy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoy Scouts …Future Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFuture Foun…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · HealthATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $20,000 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INC: $10,000 · HealthSUNSHINE ON A RANNEY DAY INCORPORATED: $10,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $7,000 · HealthFOR THE KIDS ORG: $45,500 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 · Food & NutritionWASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCarroll County Soup Kitchen Inc: $11,000 · Food & NutritionFAMILY KITCHEN: $5,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $32,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20,000 · EnvironmentBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $19,000 · EnvironmentCHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Education$370,000Other$709,000Human Services$212,500Youth Development$187,000Health$117,000Food & Nutrition$111,500Environment$107,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc: $106,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA CHARITY CLAYS INC: $70,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN UTAH: $65,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetKENYA KEYS: $58,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetFUGEES FAMILY INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCreate Your Dreams Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetLEAD INC: $50,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFOR THE KIDS ORG: $45,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL: $32,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN HARVEST FOOD BANK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHOUSE SCHOLARS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCIRCLES OF WEST GEORGIA INC: $22,000 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWASTELESS SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEART OF OREGON CORPS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREE BIKES 4 KIDZ OF ATLANTA CO: $20,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKGREEN GARDENS: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDRAWCHANGE INC: $19,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetRVC SEATTLE: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS GEORGIA INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIREDU INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA CELEBRATES PHOTOGRAPHY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA BELTLINE PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHORNWELL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCarroll County Soup Kitchen Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP: $11,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSISTERCARE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROPEL ATL INC: $10,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKATE'S CLUB INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMeridian Education Resource Group Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 92 Atlanta Area Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASATCH COMMUNITY GARDENS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIT SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSynGAP Research Fund Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCURENFWITHJACK: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% 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 Community Foundat…Georgia Power Foundat…The Imlay Foundation …Tw Marian W Ottley At…The Waterfall Foundat…The Arthur M Blank Fa…United Way of Greater…Atl Fdn-W Peters MainMcKesson Foundation I…Jack and Anne Glenn C…Patterson Family Foun…Frances Wood Wilson F…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA32.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Heart of Oregon Corps Inc: 28% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
23report 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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Find your warmest path to The Mary Alice and Bennett Brown Foundation Inc 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 91 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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