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.

Brown Family Private Foundation

Brown Family Private Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$221kEducation$218kInternational$97kArts & Culture$91kAnimals$70kReligion$63kEnvironment$51kHealth$51kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $81k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER	$10,000
HYLA MIDDLE SCHOOL	$7,500
EAGLE HARBOR CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH	$7,000
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER	$6,000
FABRETTO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC	$5,000
AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION	$5,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION	$5,000
WORLD POSSIBLE	$5,000
SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY-SEAS	$5,000
MACULAR DEGENERATION RESEARCH	$5,000
CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA	$5,000
COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION	$5,000
ISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS	$4,500
BAINBRIDGE PERFORMING ARTS	$4,000
HELPLINE HOUSE	$3,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Brown Family Private Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brown Family Private Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 4.7% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$852k · 25 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$852k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

-10%

Still filing today

92%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

HM
Hyla Middle School
7× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +21%
BI
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND SENIOR COMMUNITY CENTER
9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +82%
IV
ISLAND VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS
9× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +75%

Funded once

CH
COMMON HOPE
one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -11%
BH
BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE
one grant, 2017 · $5k
BB
BAINBRIDGE BOOSTER CLUBgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +72%

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.

04Its field

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.

Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment

Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy

Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals

The Island School

The Island School provides a flexible learning environment where each child is known and celebrated.

Education

Burien Cooperative Education Project

The Bridge School is a cooperative, multi-age, progressive elementary school program that fosters authentic learning through whole child development.

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Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development

Sustainable Path Foundation

Sustainable Path Foundation promotes sustainability and health in the Puget Sound region through collaborative approaches informed by scientific understanding and systems thinking.

Social Science

Peninsula College Foundation

Creating access, excellence and success for the peninsula college community by providing funds for students and programs.

Philanthropy

Bio Ventures for Global Health

BVGH drives sustainable, market-informed solutions to improve access to quality healthcare in low- and middle-income countries. BVGH builds cross-sector partnerships that align industry, government, and local health-system priorities to…

Health

Islandwood

The primary goal is to help children & adults develop a commitment to lifelong learning & environmental and community stewardship through hands-on learning experiences combining science, technology, & the arts at islandwood's 255-acre…

Environment

Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment

Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; the most unlike its peers is World Possible. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 35 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

20/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$356,750Human Services$159,875Education$148,308Community Improvement$81,000Animals$70,000Philanthropy$61,500International$56,763

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.

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.

Bainbridge Community FoundationWA28.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brown Family Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Family Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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