· Private foundation
Brown Family Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $174k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO RAY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| FIRST FRUITS FARM INC | $60,000 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| KIPP BALTIMORE | $30,000 |
| VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC | $20,000 |
| BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC | $15,000 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS LOYOLA ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| HEALTHY PENINSULA | $14,000 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GREEN SPRING VALLEY GARDEN CLUB | $10,000 |
| MARYLAND SPCA | $10,000 |
| IRVINE NATURE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| B MORE CLUBHOUSE INC | $8,000 |
| LADEW TOPIARY GARDENS | $8,000 |
| AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 98% 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
Backed again, and grew
- FFFIRST FRUITS FARM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $267k · revenue +68%
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $222k · revenue +53%- KBKIPP BALTIMORE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +21%
- JHJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE - KIMMEL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TOTREE OF LIFE FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
For the benefit of the citizens of md to enhance their knowledge and appreciation for agricultural businesses. to educate and assist farmers in developing agricultural operations that are viable and environmentally sustainable.
The maryland center on economic policy advances innovative policy ideas to foster broad prosperity and help our state be the standard-bearer for responsible public policy.
Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The baltimore county farm bureau is a grass roots, non-governmental, voluntary associaton whose mission is to promote and protect maryland agriculture and rural life.
To restore baltimore's urban forest through increased tree planting, community engagement, and advocacy.
To eliminate health disparities by educating and strengthening the health care workforce. bahec provides interdisciplinary education programs that bridge academic, healthcare, and community settings to transform the health of underserved…
To restore the quality of baltimore's rivers, streams and harbor to foster a healthy environment, a strong economy, and thriving communities.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To nurture a love of learning in a small family-like environment by providing an extraordinary and proven montessori public school experience for families in baltimore city.
Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.
To represent the business community of howard county, maryland
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 47 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 FIRST FRUITS FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds B'MORE CLUBHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEYS PLANNING COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds IRVINE NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN SPRING VALLEY GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE OF SHARON EQUESTRIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOXIE G FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Kieve Wavus Education Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds FOREVER MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AROOSTOOK COUNTY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · James S and Gail P Riepe Charitable Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Clayton Baker Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brown Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- First Fruits Farm Inc: 26% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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