· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SPOKANE | $2,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| SECOND BAPTIST SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS SPOKANE VALLEY | $1,000 |
| THE ARTISANS ARK | $1,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE ROSES | $1,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF INLAND NW | $1,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO LIGHTHOUSE | $1,000 |
| LINACRE INC | $1,000 |
| THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| ADVENT EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC | $1,000 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF INLAND NORTHWEST | $1,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNehemiah Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +10%
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +41%
- GEGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- BCBaylor College of Medicinegraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +32%
- PSPEGGY SMITH ENDOWMENT FORone grant, 2018 · $1k
- P(PRES (PRESBYTERIAN) HOUSEone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
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.
Economic and community development through sport tourism. bid to host and create major sporting events, and facility consultation and optimization.
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
To make known the gifts of people with development disabilities, revealed through mutually transforming relationships, to foster an environment in community that responds to the changing needs of members while being faithful to the core…
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The mission of the Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS Health) is to improve the overall health of the communities we serve by expanding access to quality health and wellness services.
We create confident learners who lead lives of intellectual curiosity, self-knowledge, and social responsibility.
To prepare a diverse range of students for a life of learning in post-secondary education, citizenship, and leadership.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Legacy Meridian Park Hospital (LMPH), established in 1973, is a community hospital in Tualatin, OR, south of Portland with 150 licensed beds. LMPH serves the needs of the fast growing communities of Tualatin, Tigard, Wilsonville, Sherwood,…
Seattle children's healthcare system (schs) is engaged in activities relating to the provision of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents, delivering and improving the delivery and the quality of those services through…
How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Nehemiah Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LILAC SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Spokane Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BRIARPATCH YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Spokane Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ARTISANS' ARK ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CARROUSEL PLAYERS OF THE COEUR D'ALENE SUMMER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Innovia Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SPOKANE ↗
- Who funds ADVENT EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brown Assistance Fund Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Assistance Fund Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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