Delaware · Private foundation
Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust
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.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 81
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 89
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 80 | $86k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $83k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $84k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $88k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $75k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 85 | $88k | 12% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $82k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 81 | $88k | 26% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated | $51,000 | 6 | 2% |
| YWCA Richmond | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $27,000 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $25,200 | 9 | 0% |
| The Visual Arts Center of Richmond | $18,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Orchard School Foundation Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Equus Effect Inc | $17,050 | 7 | 1% |
| Johns Hopkins University | $15,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 150 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($43k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust 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: David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Liberty Hill Foundation · Otis & Bettina Chandler Foundation · Monimos Foundation · HHL Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Robins Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation
How this is measured
About Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust
- How much does Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust give?
- Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust reported 81 grants totaling $85,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 89 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Arts & Culture (18%), Environment (13%).
- Who are Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated ($51k), YWCA Richmond ($45k), Sweet Briar Institute ($27k).
- Does Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust 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 Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include David & Sylvia Weisz Foundation, Santa Barbara Foundation, The Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust based?
- Bruce Ford Brown Memorial Trust is based in DE.
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