Illinois · Private foundation
Clayton Brown 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 33
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $71M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Clayton Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 17 | $1.5M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $550k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $423k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $349k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $120k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josiah Venture | $385,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Outreach Community Ministries | $218,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Wheaton Academy | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Navigators | $195,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $176,000 | 5 | 0% |
| By The Hand Club For Kids | $172,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Dallas Theological Seminary | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ligonier Ministries Inc | $150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Naples Christian Academy | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Project Medsend | $104,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($515k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Clayton Brown 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: Tyndale House Ministries · The Cornerstone Center Foundation · James E Elliot Charitable Trust · Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Domanada Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Richard H and Janice R Popp Charitable Found · The Chatlos Foundation Inc · International Generosity Foundation Trust · The Signatry Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Clayton Brown Family Foundation
- How much does Clayton Brown Family Foundation give?
- Clayton Brown Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $1,665,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Clayton Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Philanthropy (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are Clayton Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Josiah Venture ($385k), Outreach Community Ministries ($218k), Wheaton Academy ($200k).
- Does Clayton Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Clayton Brown 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 Clayton Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tyndale House Ministries, The Cornerstone Center Foundation, James E Elliot Charitable Trust.
- Where is Clayton Brown Family Foundation based?
- Clayton Brown Family Foundation is based in IL.
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