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BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS

BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,701 to it, the largest being CREATIVE WEST ($25,839). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
$56k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$41k
Net assets
$743
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What Brown Soul Productions does

Mission

Our mission is to provide a platform that nurtures and amplifies the voices of women of color through the development and production of new creative works.

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

Brown Soul Productions is a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the development and production of new work by female writers of color. We will diversify the

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $52.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
Creative Westunclassified
$26k
$6k
funders
2
4
2
1

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS.

63%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 97% · 2021 46% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 2 states in all.

WA
CO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Organizations like BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Washington

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS?
BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,701 to it, the largest being CREATIVE WEST ($25,839). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $40,701 in grants to BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS?
CREATIVE WEST is the largest funder on record, with $25,839 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BROWN SOUL PRODUCTIONS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), and the filings of 5 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing