Florida · Private foundation
Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $403,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 18
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Brown Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $1.2M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $130k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $131k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $101k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $630k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $539k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $830k | 41% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $825k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marshall Project Inc | $825,000 | 4 | 2% |
| International Crisis Group | $500,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Human Rights Watch Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cornell University | $325,000 | 4 | 0% |
| 1979 Legacy Corp | $300,000 | 3 | 27% |
| American Friends of Maoz-Seal Inc | $275,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Hampshire College Trustees | $180,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc | $175,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Arnold Gold Foundation | $170,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Bard College | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($427k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brown Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Brown Foundation Inc
- How much does Brown Foundation Inc give?
- Brown Foundation Inc reported 21 grants totaling $1,601,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Brown Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (34%), Crime & Legal (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are Brown Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Marshall Project Inc ($825k), International Crisis Group ($500k), Human Rights Watch Inc ($350k).
- Does Brown Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brown Foundation Inc 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 Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.
- Where is Brown Foundation Inc based?
- Brown Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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