Georgia · Private foundation
Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $101k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $85k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $110k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $150k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $130k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $120k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $133k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $134k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $92,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Disaster Search Dog Foundation | $69,753 | 7 | 0% |
| Women's Fund of Santa Barbara | $65,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Firefighters Alliance | $48,145 | 5 | 38% |
| Domestic Violence Solutions for Santa Barbara County | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Feusa Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($230k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brown Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Oshay Family Foundation · Www Foundation · California Community Foundation · Elizabeth and John Moller Foundation · The B & B Foundation · Brittingham Family Foundation · Schlinger Chrisman Foundation Northern Trust Company Trustee
How this is measured
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About Brown Family Foundation
- How much does Brown Family Foundation give?
- Brown Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $101,379 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Health (17%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum ($92k), Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ($85k), National Disaster Search Dog Foundation ($70k).
- Does Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brown Family 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 Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Ann Jackson Family Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation.
- Where is Brown Family Foundation based?
- Brown Family Foundation is based in GA.
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