· Private foundation
Brown 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k73 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOUNT ST MARY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MONSIGNOR ALLEN TRUST AND DEV FUND | $10,000 |
| HOLY SOULS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $6,000 |
| HOLY SOULS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $2,500 |
| NATURAL STATE COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| ACCESS ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
| MUSEUM OF DISCOVERY | $2,000 |
| METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH AR | $2,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL WILD TURKEY FEDERATION | $2,000 |
| CHS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +15% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +52%
- MLMIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +6%
- LOLIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SASCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -18%
- OLOUR LADY OF HOLY SOULS SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $14k
- TGTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -3%
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.
Advocate for educational professionals and unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.
To ensure a thriving future for arkansas wildlife. the organization serves as an independent voice for all species of arkansas wildlife, a reliable source of factual information, and an inclusive partner toward the conservation and…
Arkansas farm bureau foundation (the "foundation") is organized for charitable and educational purposes to further the understanding of agricultural and rural issues, and to support the agricultural and rural community through financial…
Arkansas community foundation engages people, connects resources and inspires solutions to build community.
To honor the legacy of Arkansas sports history
To preserve and enhance quality of life for all people in northwest arkansas through the permanent protection of land.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
Advocating for the development and implementation of data-driven public policy that improves child well-being in arkansas, with a focus on economic security, education, health, early childhood, child welfare, juvenile justice, and racial…
To provide services to low income individuals.
Promote profession of pharmacy in the state of arkansas.
Fund raising and agency allocations
How this is measured
41 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. 41 of the 113 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 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCULPTURE AT THE RIVER MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIFEQUEST OF ARKANSAS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALDERSGATE INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POTLUCK INC ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds WOLFE STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ROCK GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF PULASKI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BETA THETA PI FOUNDATION ↗
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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Riggs Benevolent Fund · Nabholz Charitable Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · St Vincent Infirmary Medical Center · The Hussman Foundation · Landers Family Charitable Foundation · Clarence E Anthony Charitable Trust · Lpr Foundation · Roy & Christine Sturgis Charitable & Educational Trust · Rebsamen Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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