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The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
65
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$219k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.9MEducation$1.3MHealth$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$704kArts & Culture$557kEnvironment$303kFood & Nutrition$267kOther$0
02FY2025 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $640k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $826k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$219,000
SAINT THOMAS CHURCH$140,000
DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATI$110,000
WESLEYAN SOCIETY$101,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW Y$100,000
NORTH NAPLES UNITED METHODIST CHURC$80,000
NCH CENTER FOR PHILANTROPY$76,000
FISHER HOUSE FDN$39,000
SHRINERS HEALTHCARE FOR CHILDREN-FL$39,000
MAKE A WISH SOUTH WESTERN FLORIDA$37,000
MIDWEST FOOD BANK$36,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$36,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$36,000
NAPLES CHILDREN EDUCATION FDN$30,000
MID HUDSON REGIONAL HOSPITAL$30,000
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 (FY18–25, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $1k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $1k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $1k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $1k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $1k → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $500 → 8%TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND: $250 → 8%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $36k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $21k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $16k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $16k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $16k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $8k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $7k → 11%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $4k → 11%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $500 → 12%DAY ONE: $25k → 9%CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 9%CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 9%CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 9%CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 9%CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 9%CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%CARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 9%PHOTO SAFE: $5k → 17%PHOTO SAFE: $5k → 17%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

WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 95 repeat orgs$299k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

95 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

95
21

Total granted

$7.7M
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

48%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentFood & 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

  • TB
    THE BG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $685k · revenue +878% · 100% of their budget
  • DC
    DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $530k · revenue +70%
  • VB
    Vassar Brothers Medical Center
    7× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -115%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ANGLICAN CENTER SANT
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • DO
    Day One of New York Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +24%
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.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
3
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abilities First Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Brady Hunter Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 125 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
39/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT THOMAS CHURCH: $682,550 · OtherSAINT THOMAS CHURCHWESLEYAN SOCIETY: $498,000 · OtherWESLEYAN SOCIETYPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW Y: $350,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YNORTH NAPLES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $324,000 · OtherNORTH NAPLES UNITED METHODIST CHURCHNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTROPY: $303,000 · OtherNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTROPYBERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL AT YALE: $245,000 · OtherNEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN: $210,000 · Other+78 more: $2,833,100 · Other+78 moreDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 · EducationDUTCHESS CO…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $122,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SIL…UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …+7 more: $64,500 · Education+7 moreTHE BG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $685,000 · Food & NutritionTHE BG CHA…HYDE PARK FOOD PANTRY INC: $82,000 · Food & NutritionHYDE PARK …Vassar Brothers Medical Center: $225,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $113,000 · HealthPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $24,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,000 · Health+2 more: $1,500 · HealthFirst Colony Foundation: $106,000 · Arts & CultureTHE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $20,000 · Arts & CultureThe New Deal Creative Arts Center Inc: $17,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $30,100 · Arts & CultureMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $124,000 · Human ServicesCARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $49,000 · Human ServicesDay One of New York Inc: $25,000 · Human ServicesPHOTO SAFE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+2 more: $6,250 · Human ServicesScenic Hudson Inc: $115,000 · EnvironmentCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $50,000 · EnvironmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $33,500 · Environment
Other$5,445,650Education$791,500Food & Nutrition$767,000Health$380,000Arts & Culture$259,100Human Services$214,250Environment$198,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $685,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetDUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $530,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetVassar Brothers Medical Center: $225,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $163,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC: $127,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $124,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $123,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $122,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $115,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $113,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Colony Foundation: $106,000 over 5y, 83% of budgetNATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $84,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHYDE PARK FOOD PANTRY INC: $82,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetABILITIES FIRST INC: $77,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD: $75,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FLORIDA INC: $67,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN ASSOC INC: $63,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetCARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARDINAL HAYES HOME FOR CHILDREN: $49,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetELEANOR ROOSEVELT CENTER AT VAL-KILL INC: $35,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $33,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $33,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDay One of New York Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRIORY IN THE USA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER OF THE HOSP / ST JOHN OF JERUSALEM: $24,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Deal Creative Arts Center Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF THE REDEEMER: $8,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPLEASANT VALLEY FREE LIBRARY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DECORATIVE ARTS TRUST: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLAUDIO CARES FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetFOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF DUTCHESS COUNT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN AUSTRIAN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Church Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDECORATIVE ARTS SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS: $3,500 over 2y, 2.9% 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.

  • Who funds THE BG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Vassar Brothers Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds First Colony Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MILITARY FAMILY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
  • Who funds HYDE PARK FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILITIES FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD ↗
  • Who funds EPILEPSY FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BEATRIX FARRAND GARDEN ASSOC INC ↗

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 Bg Charitable FoundationNY32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bg Charitable Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Herbert H Redl Family Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Peckham Family Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Epilepsy Florida Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Calvin Hill Day Care Center Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP 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 125 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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