Maryland · Private foundation
Brownstein Family 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.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 52%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $493k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 52% of the organizations Brownstein Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 16 | $33k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $36k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $24k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $31k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $38k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $60k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $52k | 29% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Progress Fund | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $32,500 | 6 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Island Free Library | $13,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Health and Hope Foundation | $11,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Pbs Foundation | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $9,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The South Carolina Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brownstein Family 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: Seattle Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Brownstein Family Foundation
- How much does Brownstein Family Foundation give?
- Brownstein Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brownstein Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (16%), Civil Rights (15%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Brownstein Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washington Progress Fund ($40k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($33k), American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc ($13k).
- Does Brownstein Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 52% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brownstein Family 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 Brownstein Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Impactassetsinc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Brownstein Family Foundation based?
- Brownstein Family Foundation is based in MD.
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