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Val A Browning Charitable Foundation

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2021
57
Grants FY2021
11
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Val A Browning Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Horizons, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Val A Browning Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 43 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

39
’20
43
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MEducation$712kArts & Culture$491kHealth$469kEnvironment$234kRecreation & Sports$201kHuman Services$134kAnimals$122kOther$0
02FY2021 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k13 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $797k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $501k
$15,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation$124,671
Treatment Advocacy Center$89,706
Individual grant recipient$71,650
The American Friends of the Almeida Theatre Inc$60,000
University of Utah$52,448
Weber State University$52,366
Living With Wolves$50,000
The Community Library$43,639
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley$41,728
Blaine County Seniors Council Inc dba The Senior Connection$40,729
St Luke's Wood Rvier Foundation$39,994
University of Utah$39,994
Salmon & Trout Conservation UK$39,150
Onstage Ogden$30,093
The Inn Between$30,000
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 (FY20–21, $269k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC DBA THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $44k → 7%SEEKHAVEN INC: $35k → 11%Blaine County Seniors Council Inc dba The Senior Connection: $41k → 7%Friends of Moab Canyonlands Health Care: $15k → 11%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY: $48k → 7%FRIENDS OF MOAB CANYONLANDS HEALKTH CARE: $15k → 11%Hospice & Palliative Care of the Wood River Valley: $42k → 7%The Inn Between: $30k → 8%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

WA
ID
NY
MA
NV
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
LA
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 64% of Val A Browning Charitable Foundation’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.

Val A Browning Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 42 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
5

Total granted

$2.4M
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+125%

Still filing today

79%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • TA
    TREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $186k · revenue +45%
  • SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $150k · revenue +67%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDA THEATRE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $120k · revenue +82% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • US
    UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • SF
    SEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +72%
  • TA
    THE ADVOCATES
    one grant, 2020 · $19k

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
Utah Geological Foundation
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2
Summit Land Conservancy

Summit land conservancy works with utah communities to conserve land and water for the benefit of the people and nature.

Environment
3
Utah Public Lands Alliance
Education
4
Utah Shakespeare Festival Foundation
Arts & Culture
5
Utah State Fair Corporation

The Utah State Fair Corporation was established to preserve Utah's heritage, meet tomorrow's future today, and showcase agriculture and innovative technology.

Recreation & Sports
6
Idaho Foundation for Parks and Lands

To preserve and protect, for public benefit, open space lands and unique natural, scenic settings throughout the state of idaho utilizing various flexible conservation methods.

Environment
7
Glen Canyon Conservancy

As the official nonprofit partner of glen canyon national recreation area and rainbow bridge national monument and a partner of bureau of land management in southern utah and southwestern colorado, glen canyon conservancy is dedicated to…

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8
Friends of the Owyhee

Friends of the owyhee exists to promote conservation advocacy, stewardship, and recreation in the owyhee region.

Environment
9
Stewardship Utah Foundation

The mission of the stewardship utah foundation is to advocate for the improvement of the environment in utah.

Human Services
10
Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc

Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect…

Environment
11
Museum of North Idaho Inc

The museum of north idaho preserves and illuminates our past to inspire our future.

Arts & Culture
12
Sci Utah Foundation

To ensure the future of wildlife through conservation, education and hunting.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Arches&Canyonlands Parks Bates Wilson Legacy Fund and the most unlike its peers is Healing Minds Nola. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsLocal Food System Organizat…Domestic Violence ServicesSchool District FoundationsAddiction Recovery ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Local History MuseumsPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …
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 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr16%30%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr24%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%74%10–20yr15%9%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr24%9%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,442

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.

05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 59 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
37/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Greater Horizons — $4,127,856 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizons+3 more — $45,150 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $234,780 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAHSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $149,671 · OtherSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATIO…Individual grant recipient — $121,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…THE COMMUNITY LIBRARY — $121,017 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY LIBRARYWEBER STATE UNIVERSITY — $108,366 · OtherWEBER STATE UNIVERSITYSALMON & TROUT CONSERVATION UK — $88,800 · OtherSALMON & TROUT CONSERVA…ONSTAGE OGDEN — $86,281 · OtherONSTAGE OGDENGOLDEN RULE PROJECT — $60,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · OtherLIVING RIVERS — $50,000 · OtherTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $85,000 · OtherTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT…+17 more — $271,099 · Other+17 moreTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $185,806 · HealthST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $90,569 · HealthSchizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America — $52,000 · Health+2 more — $14,937 · HealthTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDA THEATRE INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC — $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER — $16,920 · Arts & CultureSCIENCE MILL — $14,943 · Arts & CultureKimball Art Center — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Moab Folk Festival — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC — $90,104 · Human ServicesBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION — $84,267 · Human ServicesSEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE INN BETWEEN — $30,000 · Human ServicesMOAB HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Human ServicesOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $48,000 · EducationTHE MAGDALENE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC — $30,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE LONDON LIBRARY INC — $30,000 · EducationPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · EducationBattle Point Astronomical Association — $10,000 · EducationLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD — $101,585 · AnimalsGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR — $27,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $20,318 · Animals
Philanthropy$4,173,006Other$1,426,314Health$343,312Arts & Culture$274,863Human Services$269,371Education$158,000Animals$148,903

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 budgetGreater Horizons — $4,127,856 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTREATMENT ADVOCACY CENTER — $185,806 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $149,671 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ALMEIDA THEATRE INC — $120,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetLIVING WITH WOLVES LTD — $101,585 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $90,569 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC — $90,104 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetONSTAGE OGDEN — $86,281 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC THE SENIOR CONNECTION — $84,267 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMOAB MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $60,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSchizophrenia and Related Disorders Alliance of America — $52,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLIVING RIVERS — $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetOGDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $48,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSEEKHAVEN FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSawtooth Interpretive and Historical Association — $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE MAGDALENE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE INN BETWEEN — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOAB HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetWEBER PATHWAYS — $30,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FRIENDS OF THE LONDON LIBRARY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSAWTOOTH SOCIETY INC — $29,784 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetGREATER OGDEN COMMUNITY NATURE CTR — $27,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCANYONLANDS FIELD INSTITUTE INC — $23,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY — $20,318 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNION STATION FOUNDATION — $19,675 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetECCLES COMMUNITY ART CENTER — $16,920 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARCHES&CANYONLANDS PARKS BATES WILSON LEGACY FUND — $15,287 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMOAB VALLEY MULTICULTURAL CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSCIENCE MILL — $14,943 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBainbridge Island Sportsmens Club — $11,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetKimball Art Center — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPARK CITY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEALING MINDS NOLA — $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFriends of the Moab Folk Festival — $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTH GARDEN PROJECT — $5,400 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARIE OSBORNE-SALMON RIVER CLINIC ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION INC — $5,150 over 1y, 34% of budgetOGDEN SURGICAL SOCIETY — $4,937 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

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.

Greater HorizonsGeorge S and Dolores …Sorenson Legacy Found…Palladium FoundationLawrence & Janet Dee …Willard L Eccles Char…Dominion Energy Chari…The May Family Founda…Nebeker Family Founda…Janet Q Lawson Founda…Alpenglow FoundationLarry H Miller and Ga…
Greater HorizonsMO44.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Horizons · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Palladium Foundation · Lawrence & Janet Dee Foundation · Willard L Eccles Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The May Family Foundation · Nebeker Family Foundation · Janet Q Lawson Foundation · Alpenglow Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family 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 Val A Browning Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 Val A Browning Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Val A Browning Charitable Foundation 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 59 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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