· Private foundation
Judge John R Brown Scholarship Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN PAUL LODGE FERGUSON | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $5,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| LEWIS AND CLARK LAW SCHOOL | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN4× · 2020–2024 · $30k
- JPJOHN PAUL LODGE FERGUSON2× · 2024–2025 · $20k
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND3× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- UNUTHEALTH NEUROSCIENCESone grant, 2020 · $25k
- UOUniversity of Houston Foundationone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -35%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Judge John R Brown Scholarship Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Judge John R Brown Scholarship Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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