Delaware · Private foundation
Brown Family Private Foundation
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.
- $91k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Brown Family Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $91k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $81k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $80k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $118k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $106k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $106k | 39% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $94k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyla Middle School | $104,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center | $102,375 | 9 | 6% |
| Island Volunteer Caregivers | $80,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Seattle Aquarium Society | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Education | $63,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Amigos de Santa Cruz Foundation | $61,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Bainbridge Performing Arts | $36,000 | 7 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $35,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cascade Public Media | $33,000 | 9 | 0% |
| World Possible | $28,763 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($106k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brown Family Private Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Bainbridge Community Foundation · One Call for All · Seattle Foundation · Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island Trust · Archarios Foundation · Kitsap Community Foundation · First Fed Foundation · Crabby Beach Foundation · Veterane Family Foundation · Clovis Foundation · Marks Family Foundation · Quail Roost Foundation
How this is measured
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About Brown Family Private Foundation
- How much does Brown Family Private Foundation give?
- Brown Family Private Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $91,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brown Family Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Education (23%), International (10%).
- Who are Brown Family Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hyla Middle School ($105k), Bainbridge Island Senior Community Center ($102k), Island Volunteer Caregivers ($80k).
- Does Brown Family Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brown Family Private 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 Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bainbridge Community Foundation, One Call for All, Seattle Foundation.
- Where is Brown Family Private Foundation based?
- Brown Family Private Foundation is based in DE.
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