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Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown 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.

$15k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$381k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$15k11%
FY20239$16k0%
FY20228$19k13%
FY202110$14k0%
FY202013$18kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$29kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$17kEducation$14kAnimals$2kHousing & Shelter$925Food & Nutrition$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bishop Museum$17,70050%
Na Keiki O Emalia$16,62553%
Ala Kahakai Trail Association$10,60042%
Seabury Hall$10,50040%
Historic Hawai'I Foundation$4,97550%
Maui Nui Botanical Gardens Inc$4,80050%
The Outdoor Circle$4,22550%
Montessori of Maui Inc$3,62550%
Hawaiian Mission Children's Society$2,40020%
Assistance Dogs of Hawaii$1,62520%
Lunalilo Home$92510%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center$57510%
The Food Basket Inc$50010%
Hawaiian Historical Society$50010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBishop Museum: $17,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNa Keiki O Emalia: $16,625 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetAla Kahakai Trail Association: $10,600 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSeabury Hall: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Hawai'I Foundation: $4,975 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMaui Nui Botanical Gardens Inc: $4,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Outdoor Circle: $4,225 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMontessori of Maui Inc: $3,625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHawaiian Mission Children's Society: $2,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance Dogs of Hawaii: $1,625 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLunalilo Home: $925 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Arts & Cultural Center: $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Basket Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawaiian Historical Society: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

The Strong FoundationHI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Strong Foundation · Hawaii Council for Humanities · Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · The Queen's Medical Center · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Armstrong Foundation · Dolores F Martin Foundation · Bendon Family Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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How do I get to Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown 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.

About Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation

How much does Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation give?
Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Environment (24%), Human Services (20%).
Who are Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Bishop Museum ($18k), Na Keiki O Emalia ($17k), Ala Kahakai Trail Association ($11k).
Does Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown 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 Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Strong Foundation, Hawaii Council for Humanities, Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation.
Where is Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation based?
Zadoc W & Lawrence N Brown Foundation is based in HI.

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 16 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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