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Thomas Brown Perp Char Tst

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.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$19k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Animals$276kEducation$45kHealth$23kReligion$16k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $137k
$12,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PAWS CHICAGO$18,750
TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL$15,625
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$15,000
EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION$12,500
ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP$12,500
THE ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY$12,500
ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE$12,500
ANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT$12,500
TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY$12,500
CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC$12,500
ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES$9,375
ST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORMED EPISCOPAL$6,250
CATNAP FROM THE HEART INC$6,250
PAWS AND CLAWS RESCUE INC$6,250
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORMED EPISCOPAL: $5k → 17%ANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT: $13k → 7%PAWS CHICAGO: $20k → 14%ST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5k → 17%ANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT: $10k → 7%PAWS CHICAGO: $19k → 14%ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES: $9k → 7%PAWS CHICAGO: $15k → 14%ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $13k → 14%ONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $10k → 14%EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION: $13k → 14%EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%PAWS AND CLAWS RESCUE INC: $6k → 14%PAWS AND CLAWS RESCUE INC: $5k → 14%TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $16k → 14%TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $13k → 14%ST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORMED EPISCOPAL: $6k → 14%CATNAP FROM THE HEART INC: $6k → 14%CATNAP FROM THE HEART INC: $5k → 14%ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE: $13k → 14%ANIMAL CARE LEAGUE: $10k → 14%CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $13k → 14%CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $10k → 14%THE ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY: $20k → 14%THE ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY: $13k → 14%THE ANTI-CRUELTY SOCIETY: $10k → 14%ILLINOIS ANIMAL WELFARE NETWORKERS ASSOC: $8k → 14%TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY: $13k → 14%TREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 14%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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$338k · 13 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$338k
$13k

Still filing today

85%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
AnimalsHealthOther
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

  • PC
    PAWS CHICAGO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $54k · revenue +45%
  • TB
    TOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $28k · revenue +17%
  • EA
    EVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IA
    ILLINOIS ANIMAL WELFARE NETWORKERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • SC
    ST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
2
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
3
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
4
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
5
Humane Society of Central Illinois

HSCIs mission is to find loving, forever homes for abused and unwanted pets.

Animals
6
Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.

Animals
7
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
8
Carolina Animal Network

we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…

Animals
9
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
10
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals
11
Raskels Rescue
Animals
12
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Anti-Cruelty Society; the most unlike its peers is Illinois Animal Welfare Networkers Association. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
4/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PAWS CHICAGO: $53,750 · AnimalsPAWS CHICAGOThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $42,500 · AnimalsThe Anti-Cruelty SocietyTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $28,125 · AnimalsTOUCHED BY AN ANIMALANIMAL CARE LEAGUE: $22,500 · AnimalsANIMAL CARE LEAGUEONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $22,500 · AnimalsONE TAIL AT A TIME NFPANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT: $22,500 · AnimalsANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENTTREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $22,500 · AnimalsTREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INCEVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION: $22,500 · AnimalsEVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATIONCATNAP FROM THE HEART: $11,250 · AnimalsPAWS AND CLAWS RESCUE INC: $11,250 · Animals+1 more: $7,500 · AnimalsARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSI…ST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORMED EPISCOPAL: $11,250 · OtherST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORME…ILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES: $9,375 · OtherILLINOIS FEDERATION OF…ST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORMED EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherST CHRYSOSTOMS REFORME…CANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $22,500 · Health
Animals$266,875Other$70,625Health$22,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $53,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Anti-Cruelty Society: $42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTOUCHED BY AN ANIMAL: $28,125 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCANINE THERAPY CORPS INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetANIMAL CARE LEAGUE: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetONE TAIL AT A TIME NFP: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANIMALS DESERVING OF PROPER TREATMENT: $22,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTREE HOUSE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEVANSTON ANIMAL SHELTER ASSOCIATION: $22,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCATNAP FROM THE HEART: $11,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPAWS AND CLAWS RESCUE INC: $11,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetILLINOIS FEDERATION OF HUMANE SOCIETIES: $9,375 over 1y, 5.8% 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.

Muntwyler Wanda Char …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie FoundationArthur J Gallagher Fo…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 MainOH24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Muntwyler Wanda Char 0 Main · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Thomas Brown Perp Char Tst funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Brown Perp Char Tst. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Thomas Brown Perp Char Tst?

    Find your warmest path to Thomas Brown Perp Char Tst 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 16 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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