Minnesota · Private foundation
Brown Dana Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 113
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Saint Louis Zoo Association | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation | $885,714 | 2 | 1% |
| St Louis Childrens Hospital | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Louis Children's Hospital Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sheldon Arts Foundation | $225,000 | 2 | 4% |
| International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis | $126,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $110,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Library Foundation for the Benefit of St Louis Public Library | $100,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 141 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brown Dana Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Pott Foundation · The Bellwether Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable
How this is measured
About Brown Dana Charitable Trust
- How much does Brown Dana Charitable Trust give?
- Brown Dana Charitable Trust reported 113 grants totaling $4,512,063 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
- What does Brown Dana Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (14%), Human Services (7%), Animals (6%).
- Who are Brown Dana Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: The Saint Louis Zoo Association ($1.0M), Cardinal Glennon Children's Foundation ($886k), St Louis Childrens Hospital ($250k).
- Does Brown Dana Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brown Dana Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company, United Way of Greater St Louis Inc.
- Where is Brown Dana Charitable Trust based?
- Brown Dana Charitable Trust is based in MN.
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