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L P Brown Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2022
46
Grants FY2022
42
Organizations funded FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$100,000
States reached, FY2022
12
Total assets, FY2022
$25M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$1.6MHealth$155kCivil Rights$100kEducation$85kPhilanthropy$80kCommunity Improvement$70kCrime & Legal$55kInternational$30kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
NY
MA
OR
SD
CA
CO
MD
NM
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($208k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget L P Brown Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColorado Open Lands: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWild Salmon Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWestern Rivers Conservancy: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSnow Lion Education & Family Services Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCommunity Builders: $40,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetViolence Policy Center: $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCobalt Foundation: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRazom Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Indian College Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeople of the Sacred Land: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFibershed: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMesa County Land Conservancy Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetResource Central: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNdn Collective Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrip Training Institute: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMemphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChinook Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCoalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Aleut Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYouthworks: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArctic Education Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmergency Family Assistance Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBoulder Community Health Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Broadcasting of Colorado Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Popular Democracy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Immigrant Rights Coalition: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBear Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSpirit of the Sun Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRist Canyon Volunteer Fire Department: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO23× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rose Community Foundation · Lederer Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Brett Family Foundation · The Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About L P Brown Foundation

How much does L P Brown Foundation give?
L P Brown Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $1,070,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing.
What does L P Brown Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Health (3%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are L P Brown Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Colorado Open Lands ($100k), Western Resource Advocates ($100k), Wild Salmon Center ($50k).
Does L P Brown 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 L P Brown Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Impactassetsinc, The Colorado Health Foundation.
Where is L P Brown Foundation based?
L P Brown Foundation is based in CO.

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 44 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.4M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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