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Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC | $7,000 |
| COTTONWOOD DAY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| JORGE PASTORE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| NORTHWEST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| HAVEN | $1,500 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL INC | $1,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH | $1,500 |
| GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC | $1,500 |
| THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WILD LOVE PRESERVE | $1,000 |
| LILYS LEGACY SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $1,000 |
| WARRIORS & QUIET WATERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- ECEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +205%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +384%- AIATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- WCWHOLE CHILD INCone grant, 2018 · $3k
Spikes K9 Fundone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -24%- PAPAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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 washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
We seek to end animal agriculture by rescuing farmed animals, giving them lifelong care and sanctuary, and educating about the harms of animal farming.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Wolf haven's mission is to conserve and protect wolves and their habitat. we rescue and provide sanctuary for displaced, captive-born wolves, promote wolf restoration in historical ranges, and provide a variety of educational programs…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Partner with detection dogs to further conservation initiatives around the world. Working Dogs for Conservation Foundation (WD4C) integrates scientific-detection dog teams with established management and conservation efforts to address…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
To provide a safe and nurturing environment for abandoned and neglected wolfdogs while educating the public about their unique needs and behavior.
Dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of orphaned, injured and displaced wildlife. wildlife rescue rescues and cares for all wildlife, including native and nonnative species believing all animals are deserving of care,…
Provide a natural sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.
Wildlife rehabilitation and educational activities to inform the public about the need for protection of wildlife
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Inc. 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 37 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 82 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
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 EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WILDLIFE CENTER OF VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S LEGACY EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds WINDHORSE EQUINE LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS IN MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds WILD LOVE PRESERVE ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COTTONWOOD DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LLAMA RESCUE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS RESCUE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds THRIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT ESCAPE INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHOLE CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds Dec My Room Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGH SAVERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEROES AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Spikes K9 Fund ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Gilhousen Family Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · One Valley Community Foundation · Robert a Waller Foundation · The Oak Hill Fund
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 Vaughan W Brown Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Maryland Zoological Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 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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