How much does Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation give?

Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (24%), Education (24%), Health (13%).

Who are Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eastside College Preparatory School Inc ($50k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($21k), Atlanta International School ($15k).

Does Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Gilhousen Family Foundation, The J & E Berkley Foundation.

Where is Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation based?

Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation is based in DE.

Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation

Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$38k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$7k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$94kEducation$93kHealth$53kArts & Culture$36kEnvironment$27kHuman Services$26kReligion$21kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$894k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC	$7,000
COTTONWOOD DAY SCHOOL	$3,000
JORGE PASTORE FOUNDATION	$2,500
NORTHWEST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$2,000
BLAINE COUNTY RECREATION DISTRICT	$2,000
SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY	$2,000
GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC	$1,500
HAVEN	$1,500
ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL INC	$1,500
THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION	$1,500
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH	$1,500
CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL	$1,000
THRIVE INC	$1,000
WILD LOVE PRESERVE	$1,000
ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$357k · 53 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$357k

$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+23%

Still filing today

81%

89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsEducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

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EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +205%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +578%
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ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

Spikes K9 Fund
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -5%
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WHOLE CHILD INC
one grant, 2018 · $3k
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THE TRAVELING SCHOOL
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue -45%

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.

Washington Humane Society

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…

Animals

Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary Inc

We seek to end animal agriculture by rescuing farmed animals, giving them lifelong care and sanctuary, and educating about the harms of animal farming.

Animals

Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

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.

Animals

Wolf Haven International

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…

Animals

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Working Dogs for Conservation Found

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…

Health

Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment

Roam Wolfdog Sanctuary

To provide a safe and nurturing environment for abandoned and neglected wolfdogs while educating the public about their unique needs and behavior.

Animals

Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Inc

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,…

Animals

The Wildcat Sanctuary

Provide a natural sanctuary to wild cats in need and inspire change to end the captive wildlife crisis.

Animals

Rockfish Wildlife Sanctuary Inc

Wildlife rehabilitation and educational activities to inform the public about the need for protection of wildlife

Animals

Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherd Center Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

69/71

Grantees still filing

48/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$92,500Animals$85,850Other$113,900Health$41,900Arts & Culture$28,200Environment$18,250Human Services$9,000

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

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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

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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