California · Private foundation
Abbott L Brown Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $124k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $64,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Abbott L Brown Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $124k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $51k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $13k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $105k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $204k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $75k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $86k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh University | $205,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Coast Guard Foundation Inc | $154,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Master Chorale Association | $140,378 | 5 | 1% |
| Saint John's Health Center Foundation | $41,125 | 3 | 0% |
| Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Claremont McKenna College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Homeboy Industries | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harmony Project | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint John's Cancer Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healgrief | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh University | $205,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Coast Guard Foundation Inc | $154,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Los Angeles Master Chorale Association | $140,378 | 5 | 1% |
| Saint John's Health Center Foundation | $41,125 | 3 | 0% |
| Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Claremont McKenna College | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Homeboy Industries | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Harmony Project | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint John's Cancer Institute | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Healgrief | $5,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Friends of Robinson Gardens Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Santa Fe Opera | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Teach Democracy | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wise and Healthy Aging | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abbott L Brown Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Abbott L Brown Foundation
- How much does Abbott L Brown Foundation give?
- Abbott L Brown Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $124,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Abbott L Brown Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (24%), Public Safety & Disaster (23%).
- Who are Abbott L Brown Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lehigh University ($205k), Coast Guard Foundation Inc ($155k), Los Angeles Master Chorale Association ($140k).
- Does Abbott L Brown Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Abbott L 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 Abbott L Brown Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles.
- Where is Abbott L Brown Foundation based?
- Abbott L Brown Foundation is based in CA.
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