Texas · Private foundation
Brown Assistance Fund Trust
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.
- $36k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $720k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Brown Assistance Fund Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | 32 | $35k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $33k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $26k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $36k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $34k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $33k | 3% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $27k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $33k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nehemiah Center Inc | $20,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Madison Symphony Orchestra Inc | $12,000 | 7 | 0% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $10,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Fatima Church | $9,800 | 9 | n/a |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $9,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Presbyterian Church of the Roses | $9,250 | 9 | n/a |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Lilac Services for the Blind | $7,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Spokane Humane Society | $7,250 | 9 | 0% |
| Briarpatch Youth Services Inc | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brown Assistance Fund Trust 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: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Brown Assistance Fund Trust
- How much does Brown Assistance Fund Trust give?
- Brown Assistance Fund Trust reported 33 grants totaling $36,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brown Assistance Fund Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (17%), Education (17%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Brown Assistance Fund Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nehemiah Center Inc ($20k), Madison Symphony Orchestra Inc ($12k), First Presbyterian Church ($11k).
- Does Brown Assistance Fund Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brown Assistance Fund Trust 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 Brown Assistance Fund Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, The Avista Foundation, The Is & Emily Fetterman Foundation.
- Where is Brown Assistance Fund Trust based?
- Brown Assistance Fund Trust is based in TX.
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