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Frank D Brown Charitable Trust 1 at a glance

· Private foundation

Frank D Brown Charitable Trust 1

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$310kEducation$104kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL$50,000
THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM$25,000
BARD COLLEGE$10,000
ST TIMOTHYS SCHOOL$5,000
MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE$3,000
BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARD: $54k → 9%THE LEGACY SCHOOL: $3k → 6%WEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $3k → 10%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $15k → 11%THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL: $50k → 19%BARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARD: $15k → 9%THE LEGACY SCHOOL: $3k → 6%WEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $3k → 10%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $15k → 11%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE: $3k → 19%BARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARD: $10k → 9%THE LEGACY SCHOOL: $2k → 6%WEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $3k → 10%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $5k → 11%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE: $2k → 19%BARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARD: $10k → 9%THE LEGACY SCHOOL: $2k → 6%WEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $3k → 10%ST TIMOTHYS SCHOOL: $5k → 11%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE: $2k → 19%BARD COLLEGE: $10k → 9%THE LEGACY SCHOOL: $2k → 6%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $5k → 11%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE: $2k → 19%BARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARD: $10k → 9%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $3k → 11%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE: $2k → 19%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $3k → 11%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE: $2k → 19%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $3k → 11%MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE: $2k → 19%CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $3k → 11%WALTER ENDOWMENT: $50k → 19%WALTER ENDOWMENT: $50k → 19%WALTER ENDOWMENT: $50k → 19%WALTER ENDOWMENT: $50k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $45k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $40k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $30k → 19%THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $25k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $10k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $10k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $10k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $10k → 19%TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $10k → 19%BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3k → 19%BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3k → 19%BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $3k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$574k · 8 repeat orgs$90k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$574k
$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

38%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2021–2024 · $200k
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART
    8× · 2017–2024 · $165k
  • BC
    BARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARD
    5× · 2017–2021 · $99k

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL
    one grant, 2025 · $50k
  • TW
    THE WALTERS ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2025 · $25k
  • BARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
2/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ART: $165,439 · OtherTRUSTEES OF THE WALTER ARTBARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARD: $99,000 · OtherBARD COLLEGE FOR THE BARDCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S: $50,000 · OtherCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'STHE BRYN MAWR SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherTHE BRYN MAWR SCHOOLTHE WALTERS ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $18,000 · OtherTHE LEGACY SCHOOL: $11,000 · EducationWEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$607,439Education$36,000Arts & Culture$20,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGACY SCHOOL: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LEGACY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WEST NOTTINGHAM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Frank D Brown Charitable Trust 1 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank D Brown Charitable Trust 1. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home