· Private foundation
Warren Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ohio State University - Designated Chair J Woyach | $80,000 |
| Oakstone Academy - Childrens Center for Developmental Enrichment | $55,000 |
| Center Street Community Health Center | $20,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $20,000 |
| Oligo Nation | $20,000 |
| Lettuce Work Foundation | $10,000 |
| Opportunity International | $10,000 |
| Autism Career Training Nashville | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| No Longer Bound | $4,000 |
| Wyandot Popcorn Museum | $3,000 |
| Ohio Business Week Foundation | $3,000 |
| Third Street Family Health Services | $2,500 |
| Heritage Trail Girl Scouts | $2,000 |
| Kaitlyn Eckelberry Memorial Fund | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of your 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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +120%
- ONOLIGO NATION8× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +104%
- CSCENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $80k
- CCCOMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INCone grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -56%
- OAOAKSTONE ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To improve the health of those we serve.
To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.
Openbiome's mission is to expand patient access to microbiome therapies and fuel scientific discoveries that shape the future of health.
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
The mission of mila's miracle foundation is to find and fund paths to a cure for batten and other life-threatening neurological disorders. families in this community have been pivotal in raising the necessary funds and awareness. together,…
Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Street Community Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wyandot Popcorn Museum 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 78 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 FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds OLIGO NATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Lettuce Work Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WYANDOT POPCORN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO BUSINESS WEEK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC ↗
- Who funds MARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OXFORD TALAWANDA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KAITLYN ECKELBERRY MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
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: Harry C Moores Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Ray & Charlotte Baldauf Charitable Trust · Marion Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Warren 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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