Illinois · Private foundation
Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $901k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $900,888
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $900,888
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- 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 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalEducationFood & NutritionPublic BenefitCivil RightsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $901k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $34k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $64k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $33k | 65% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $9k | n/a |
97% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Philanthropy$901kReligion$59kInternational$25kPublic Benefit$21kEducation$17kHealth$13kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$4kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
MN
IL
MI
NY
WY
PA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Ships International | $12,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| College of the Ozarks | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity International University | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Garden Mission | $5,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $5,320 | 3 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Inner City Impact | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Ships International | $12,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 0% |
| College of the Ozarks | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trinity International University | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pacific Garden Mission | $5,700 | 4 | n/a |
| Food for the Poor Inc | $5,320 | 3 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $4,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Inner City Impact | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Wheeling Township Emergency Fund Inc | $2,250 | 2 | 3% |
| Christian Appalachian Project Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $750 | 1 | 0% |
| National Pro-Life Alliance Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Jesus Online Church Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Joyce Meyer Ministries Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Sim USA Incorporated | $150 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($951k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brown Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.
About Brown Family Foundation
- How much does Brown Family Foundation give?
- Brown Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $900,888 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (85%), Religion (6%), International (2%).
- Who are Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mercy Ships International ($13k), Smile Train Inc ($12k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($12k).
- 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 accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Brown Family Foundation based?
- Brown Family Foundation is based in IL.
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