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The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $746k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE | $333,453 |
| KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN | $200,336 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $164,880 |
| LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA | $150,236 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $138,659 |
| SPEED ART MUSEUM | $115,763 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $100,601 |
| THACHER SCHOOL | $100,209 |
| KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN | $100,000 |
| PUNDARIKA FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS SERVICES | $70,000 |
| LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE | $66,667 |
| FILM COLLABORATIVE | $63,478 |
| KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN | $50,000 |
| MIND AND LIFE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found’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 +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 57 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 7 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- THTSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $834k · revenue +156%
- SASPEED ART MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $808k · revenue +263%
- TLTHE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- KCKentucky College of Art Design at Spalding Universityone grant, 2017 · $56k
- SJST JOHN'S CHURCH WESTERN RUN PARISHone grant, 2019 · $34k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +10%
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.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The california film institute celebrates film and videos as art and education. its goal is to present and support emerging and established independent filmakers whose works address issues relevant to contemporary society. this is…
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
San Francisco Center For The Book is a center of inspiration for the Book Arts world, featuring the art and craft of letterpress printing, bookbinding, and artists' bookmaking. We are dedicated to the art of the book!
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Louisville Free Public Library Foundatio and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Surmang Inc dba Surmang Foundation. 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 28 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
164 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 164 of the 203 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN ↗
- Who funds PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds TSOKNYI HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds MAIDEN VOYAGE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERFAITH RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds MIND & LIFE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SPALDING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Special Operations - Finding Kids ↗
- Who funds OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOUISVILLE URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds INWARD BOUND MINDFULNESS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Human Needs Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DREPUNG GOMANG INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds New Century Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Canyon Cinema Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Pachamama Alliance ↗
- Who funds Lotus Treasure ↗
- Who funds Naropa University ↗
- Who funds Ten Strands ↗
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 of Louisville Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Norton Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The San Francisco 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 Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Green Planet Films Inc — 4% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- Holistic Life Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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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