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The McClane Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $29,000 |
| OAK GROVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CHILD LEGACY INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| WACO SYMPHONY COUNCIL | $1,670 |
| MENTORING ALLIANCE-WACO | $1,000 |
| DUMBARTON HOUSE | $1,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| STUDENT MOBILIZATION | $1,000 |
| CARITAS OF WACO | $1,000 |
| METHODIST HOME | $1,000 |
| NEIL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM | $750 |
| TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $700 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-TROOP 308 | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- FOFESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS8× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +59%
- VCVANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +78%
MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- CACamp Allen Camp & Conference Centerone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +23%
- WSWomens Symphony League of Austin Incorporatedgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +34%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To achieve a brighter future for children, neighbors and communities by inspiring and cultivating healthy neighborhoods.
United way of waco-mclennan county strengthens the community by mobilizing resources to measurably improve lives.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."
For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Ywca corpus christi is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waco Habitat for Humanity and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 83 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 FESTIVAL ON THE BRAZOS ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCLENNAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ATTN CHRISTOPHER QUALLS ↗
- Who funds Camp Allen Camp & Conference Center ↗
- Who funds Oak Grove Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF WACO ↗
- Who funds MISSION WACO MISSION WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION MINISTRIES OF WACO ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WACO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds TALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WACO CIVIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Womens Symphony League of Austin Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE COVE - HEART OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds Child Legacy International Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC WACO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOUSE ↗
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: Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · Waco Foundation · Cooper Foundation · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · Clifton Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Baylor University · Fm and Gloria Young Family Foundation · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Hobbs Foundation · Bowen Family Foundation · The Moody Foundation
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 McClane Brown Family Foundation 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.
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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