Kentucky · Private foundation
James Graham Brown Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $15M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $205,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $391M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations James Graham Brown Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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 | 42 | $15M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $12M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $15M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $21M | 66% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $16M | 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Louisville Foundation Inc | $5,115,445 | 4 | 3% |
| Centre College | $5,049,323 | 5 | 1% |
| Commonwealth of Kentucky | $3,100,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Community Ventures Corporation | $2,550,000 | 2 | 18% |
| The Louisville Urban League Inc | $2,250,000 | 3 | 27% |
| Waterfront Park Foundation Inc | $2,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kentucky Community and Technical College System Foundation Inc | $1,709,112 | 4 | 19% |
| Onewest Corporation | $1,623,666 | 3 | 46% |
| Wellspring Inc | $1,550,000 | 3 | 16% |
| The Housing Partnership Inc | $1,541,500 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 142 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James Graham Brown Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 20 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 129 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
About James Graham Brown Foundation Inc
- How much does James Graham Brown Foundation Inc give?
- James Graham Brown Foundation Inc reported 50 grants totaling $14,944,459 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does James Graham Brown Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Community Improvement (9%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are James Graham Brown Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: University of Louisville Foundation Inc ($5.1M), Centre College ($5.0M), Commonwealth of Kentucky ($3.1M).
- Does James Graham Brown Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James Graham Brown Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James Graham Brown Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gheens Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc.
- Where is James Graham Brown Foundation Inc based?
- James Graham Brown Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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