· Private foundation
W L Lyons Brown Jr 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $639k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $1,466,836 |
| STORM KING ART CENTER | $500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA | $277,333 |
| EARTH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $208,000 |
| SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $200,000 |
| TETON COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING | $170,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $125,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| FRICK COLLECTION | $98,400 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $75,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC | $75,000 |
| NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC | $70,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +52% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k 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
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +119%
- SKSTORM KING ART CENTER5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +44%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +17%
Funded once
- LMLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +9%
- JHJACKSON HOLE CONSERVATION ALLIANCEone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +22%
- LPLAUNCH PAD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -967%
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.
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
A non-profit established in 1998, the cultural landscape foundation (tclf) connects people to places. tclf educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.…
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.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 157 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 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE AMAZON BIODIVERSITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPEED ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds NEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTH SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc · Trippe Fund Inc · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Fairfield Foundation · The Willinphila Foundation · The McCance Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation · Valley Foundation Inc
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 W L Lyons Brown Jr 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.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Wayside House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community 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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