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Warren Brown Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$253k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$809kHealth$361kArts & Culture$244kRecreation & Sports$166kHuman Services$116kInternational$81kYouth Development$76kEmployment$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ohio State University - Designated Chair J Woyach$80,000
Oakstone Academy - Childrens Center for Developmental Enrichment$55,000
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$20,000
Oligo Nation$20,000
Center Street Community Health Center$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
Ohio Business Week Foundation$3,000
Wyandot Popcorn Museum$3,000
Third Street Family Health Services$2,500
Heritage Trail Girl Scouts$2,000
Buckeye Council of Boy Scouts$2,000
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Oligo Nation: $44k → 8%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $20k → 15%Autism Career Training Nashville: $10k → 14%Ohio State University - Designated Chair J Woyach: $80k → 15%Marion Palace Theatre: $43k → 17%Opportunity International: $10k → 7%Oligo Nation: $20k → 8%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $20k → 15%Ohio State University - Designated Chair J Woyach: $80k → 15%Marion Area Counseling Center: $28k → 17%Oligo Nation: $20k → 8%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $20k → 15%Ohio State University - Designated Chair J Woyach: $80k → 15%Marion Palace Theatre: $26k → 17%OLIGO NATION: $17k → 8%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $20k → 15%OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 15%Marion Palace Theatre: $25k → 17%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $20k → 15%Ohio State University - Designated Chair John Byrd: $80k → 15%Marion Palace Theatre: $25k → 17%FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $20k → 15%Center Street Community Health Center: $20k → 17%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $20k → 15%Ohio State University - Designated Chair John Byrd: $80k → 15%Marion Family YMCA: $20k → 17%Fellowship of Christian Athletes: $20k → 15%Center Street Community Health Center: $20k → 17%Ohio State University - Designated Chair J Woyach: $80k → 15%Marion Family YMCA: $20k → 17%Center Street Community Health Center: $20k → 17%Ohio State University - Marion (Science & Engineering Bldg): $80k → 15%MARION PALACE THEATRE: $20k → 17%Center Street Community Health Center: $20k → 17%Marion Family YMCA: $20k → 17%Center Street Community Health Center: $20k → 17%Marion Palace Theatre: $20k → 17%Marion Family YMCA: $20k → 17%MARION FAMILY YMCA: $20k → 17%Marion Community Foundation: $15k → 17%Ohio History Connection: $15k → 15%Ohio History Connection: $15k → 15%OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $15k → 15%Ohio History Connection: $15k → 15%Oakstone Academy - Childrens Center for Developmental Enrichment: $55k → 15%Oakstone Academy - Childrens Center for Developmental Enrichment: $20k → 15%OAKSTONE ACADEMY: $15k → 15%Oakstone Academy - Childrens Center for Developmental Enrichment: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CA
MO
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 39 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
34

Total granted

$1.8M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+3%

Still filing today

41%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyAnimalsInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $160k · revenue +120%
  • ON
    OLIGO NATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +104%
  • CS
    CENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $80k
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue -56%
  • OA
    OAKSTONE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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.

1
Target Als Foundation Inc

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…

Education
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

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.

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4
OhioHealth Corporation Group Return

To improve the health of those we serve.

Health
5
The N 1 Collaborative Inc

To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.

Health
6
Openbiome Foundation Inc

Openbiome's mission is to expand patient access to microbiome therapies and fuel scientific discoveries that shape the future of health.

Health
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

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…

Health
8
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
9
American Lung Association

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.

Health
10
Mila's Miracle Foundation

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,…

Health
11
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

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…

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12
The Christ Hospital

Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center Street Community Clinic Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
19/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Ohio State University - Designated Chair J Woyach: $320,000 · OtherOhio State University - Designated Chair J WoyachOhio State University - Designated Chair John Byrd: $160,000 · OtherOhio State University - Designated Chair John ByrdMarion Palace Theatre: $159,000 · OtherMarion Palace TheatreOakstone Academy - Childrens Center for Developmental Enrichment: $129,000 · OtherOakstone Academy - Childrens Center for Developmental EnrichmentMarion Family YMCA: $100,000 · OtherMarion Family YMCAOhio State University - Marion (Science & Engineering Bldg): $85,000 · OtherOhio State University - Marion (Science & Engineering Bldg)OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 · OtherOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY+51 more: $244,550 · Other+51 moreOLIGO NATION: $141,000 · HealthOLIGO NATIONCENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $100,000 · HealthCENTER STREET COMMU…COMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC: $27,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY COUNSELIN…The Lettuce Work Foundation Inc: $24,200 · HealthThe Lettuce Work Fo…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $23,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED…+6 more: $19,625 · Health+6 moreFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP …OHIO BUSINESS WEEK FOUNDATION: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentOHIO BUSINE…CENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL OHI…OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $80,000 · InternationalOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyKAITLYN ECKELBERRY MEMORIAL FUND: $8,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,500 · Human Services
Other$1,277,550Health$335,825Youth Development$204,000International$80,000Arts & Culture$60,000Philanthropy$23,500Human Services$13,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOLIGO NATION: $141,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCENTER STREET COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING AND WELLNESS CENTERS INC: $27,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Lettuce Work Foundation Inc: $24,200 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWYANDOT POPCORN MUSEUM INC: $24,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetOHIO BUSINESS WEEK FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $23,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OHIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOXFORD TALAWANDA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKAITLYN ECKELBERRY MEMORIAL FUND: $8,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBunnys Buddies: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNO LONGER BOUND INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $3,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLOW RIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING FACILITY INC: $2,625 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetThird Street Community Clinic: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARION AREA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE ONE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • 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 American Brain Tumor Association ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

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.

Harry C Moores FoundationOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Warren Brown Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Warren Brown Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 78 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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