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The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc

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.

$389k
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0173% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$593kEducation$470kEnvironment$241kHealth$166kFood & Nutrition$166kAnimals$165kPhilanthropy$133kHousing & Shelter$112kEmployment$73kOther$1.0M
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k38 grants · $188k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $201k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NANCY'S PROJECT$35,000
DONORS CHOOSE$25,000
CAMP KESEM NATIONAL$20,000
GLIDDEN AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$20,000
MONTEREY PENINSULA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$14,000
I-HELP MONTEREY$14,000
FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY$13,000
ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER$10,000
FOOD FOR THOUGHT$10,000
BE GOOD FOUNDATION$10,000
MUSEUM OF DANISH AMERICA$10,000
KIDS PLAY INTERNATIONAL INC$10,000
CAP SERVICES$10,000
ROOTS TEEN CENTER$9,000
FEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN$9,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $539k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $20k → 14%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $7k → 20%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 28%SOAR FOX CITIES INC: $10k → 7%CAP SERVICES: $8k → 10%CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC: $23k → 11%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $15k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $15k → 10%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $20k → 14%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $3k → 20%ROOM TO GROW: $7k → 28%SOAR FOX CITIES INC: $7k → 7%CAP SERVICES: $8k → 10%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $8k → 7%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $15k → 10%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $12k → 14%ROOM TO GROW: $8k → 17%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 28%SOAR FOX CITIES: $7k → 7%CAP SERVICES: $5k → 10%HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO: $5k → 7%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $20k → 14%ROOM TO GROW: $7k → 17%CAP SERVICES: $10k → 10%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $20k → 14%ROOM TO GROW: $6k → 17%SOAR FOX CITIES: $5k → 7%CAP SERVICES: $3k → 10%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $20k → 14%CAP SERVICES: $3k → 10%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $30k → 14%LEAVEN: $50k → 6%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $25k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $20k → 14%AIDS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%YOUTH GO: $7k → 11%YOUTH GO: $6k → 11%YOUTH GO: $6k → 11%YOUTH GO: $5k → 11%YOUTH GO: $5k → 11%YOUTH GO: $5k → 11%OLYCAP (OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS): $5k → 11%OLYCAP (OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS): $4k → 11%OLYCAP (OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS): $4k → 11%OLYCAP (OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS): $4k → 11%OLYCAP (OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS): $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
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ID
MN
WI
NY
MA
IA
PA
CA
UT
CO
KY
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 76 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

76 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
30

Total granted

$2.7M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • NA
    Neenah Animal Shelter Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +4%
  • RI
    RAWHIDE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $99k · revenue +72%
  • HH
    HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO
    5× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • LI
    LEAVEN INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -1%
  • GF
    GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +112%
  • CA
    CHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $23k · revenue +19%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
2
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
3
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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4
Wisconsin Waterfowl Association Inc

The purpose of the association shall be to restore and conserve wisconsin's waterfowl and wetland resources; to educate state waterfowlers during their progression from natural resource consumer to steward; and to promote governmental…

Environment
5
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
6
Goodwill Industries of South Central Wisconsin Inc

Goodwill of south central wisconsin's mission is to help people in our community to live, work and thrive through housing, employment and supportive services. see schedule o for continuationsupported employment and job skills training are…

Employment
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
9
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

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10
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Goodwill Industries of Northern Il and Wi Stateline Area Inc

The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…

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12
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Jefferson County Food Bank Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Environmental Conservation …Affordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Domestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsYmca Youth DevelopmentIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%37%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/90
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,475

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.

04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 116 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/88
Grantees still filing
65/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS - NE WI — $194,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - NE WIRAWHIDE INC — $98,500 · OtherRAWHIDE INCGLIDDEN AREA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $62,400 · OtherOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $48,000 · OtherBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES — $47,100 · OtherKids Play International Inc — $65,000 · OtherTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM — $55,000 · Other+63 more — $787,425 · Other+63 moreCamp Kesem National — $186,500 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem NationalHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO — $95,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE OF COLORAD…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $72,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL…LEAVEN INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLEAVEN INCCAP SERVICES INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesCAP SERVICES INCYOUTH GO INC — $43,300 · Human ServicesYOUTH GO INCSOAR FOX CITIES INC — $29,500 · Human ServicesCHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesOLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS — $20,000 · Human Services+3 more — $28,400 · Human ServicesDONORSCHOOSEORG — $100,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORGBEREA COLLEGE — $80,500 · EducationBEREA COLLEGESUNFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $60,675 · EducationSUNFIELD EDUCATI…PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationPRESERVE COMMUNI…Food For Thought Denver — $45,000 · EducationFood For Thought…Monterey Peninsula College Foundation — $44,000 · EducationMonterey Peninsu…NORTHLAND COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationNORTHLAND COLLEG…RAINIER SCHOLARS — $29,400 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARSUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $65,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC — $45,200 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE — $31,000 · EnvironmentJEFFERSON LAND TRUST — $27,200 · EnvironmentTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $20,000 · EnvironmentCEDARROOT — $19,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER — $16,500 · EnvironmentWISCONSIN WETLANDS ASSOCIATION INC — $9,500 · Environment+1 more — $7,500 · EnvironmentRocky Mountain Rural Health — $60,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $38,300 · HealthLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL — $32,500 · HealthBENJI PROJECT — $15,000 · HealthFRIENDSHIP PLACE INC — $10,800 · HealthTHE BLUE BENCH — $9,250 · HealthThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $57,800 · Food & NutritionST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC — $45,000 · Food & NutritionNANCYS PROJECT — $35,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRE FOOD PROJECT INC — $15,500 · Food & NutritionFEEDING AMERICA EASTERN WISCONSIN INC — $13,000 · Food & NutritionNeenah Animal Shelter Inc — $109,500 · AnimalsNORTH OLYMPIC SALMON COALITION — $31,000 · AnimalsRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC — $16,500 · Animals+2 more — $7,700 · Animals
Other$1,357,925Human Services$592,700Education$469,575Environment$240,900Health$166,350Food & Nutrition$166,300Animals$164,700

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCamp Kesem National — $186,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNeenah Animal Shelter Inc — $109,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAWHIDE INC — $98,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO — $95,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE — $80,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $72,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC — $65,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetKids Play International Inc — $65,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetSUNFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION — $60,675 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Rural Health — $60,500 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County — $57,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM — $55,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLEAVEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $48,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES — $47,100 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC — $45,200 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFood For Thought Denver — $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCAP SERVICES INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLAURI JEAN ZACH CENTER INC — $44,400 over 5y, 18% of budgetMonterey Peninsula College Foundation — $44,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH GO INC — $43,300 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetGREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL — $42,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC — $41,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $38,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBE GOOD FOUNDATION INC — $37,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetNANCYS PROJECT — $35,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL — $32,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJumping Mouse Childrens Center — $32,475 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE — $31,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetNORTH OLYMPIC SALMON COALITION — $31,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOAR FOX CITIES INC — $29,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $29,400 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThedaCare Family of Foundations Inc — $28,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJEFFERSON LAND TRUST — $27,200 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCHRISTINE ANN DOMESTIC ABUSE SERVICES INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFOX VALLEY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $23,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS — $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTREES WATER AND PEOPLE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCEDARROOT — $19,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHWOODS WILDLIFE CENTER — $16,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetRAPTOR EDUCATION GROUP INC — $16,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetVALLEY PACKAGING INDUSTRIES INC — $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget
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 Camp Kesem National ↗
  • Who funds Neenah Animal Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
  • Who funds RAWHIDE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF COLORADO ↗
  • Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Kids Play International Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUNFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Rural Health ↗
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
  • Who funds THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds OSHKOSH AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST WISCONSIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Food For Thought Denver ↗
  • Who funds CAP SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds LAURI JEAN ZACH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Monterey Peninsula College Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH GO INC ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES INTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MANITO-WISH YMCA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds BE GOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NANCYS PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LIFELONG HEALTH FOR ALL ↗
  • Who funds Jumping Mouse Childrens Center ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH OLYMPIC SALMON COALITION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER FOX CITIES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SOAR FOX CITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗

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.

J J Keller Foundation…Community Foundation …United Way Fox Cities…Oshkosh Area Communit…Green Bay Packers Fou…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Theda and Tamblin Cla…Wisconsin Public Serv…Oshkosh Corporation F…Jefferson Community F…The Clarence Wallace …Greater Green Bay Com…
J J Keller Foundation IncWI55.9× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J J Keller Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · United Way Fox Cities Inc · Oshkosh Area Community Foundation Corporation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Theda and Tamblin Clark Smith Family Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · Oshkosh Corporation Foundation Inc · Jefferson Community Foundation · The Clarence Wallace & Dolores Lynch Wallace Family Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community 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 Robert and Susan Brown Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Lamoille Community House Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Roots Teen Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Robert and Susan Brown Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 116 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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