Washington · Private foundation
Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $892k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $792k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $443k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $321k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $449k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $660k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Washington Foundation | $1,371,408 | 5 | 1% |
| Town Hall Association | $516,150 | 6 | 5% |
| Seattle Opera | $400,000 | 6 | 1% |
| A Contemporary Theatre Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Cascade Public Media | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Institute of Flamenco | $50,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington Trails Association | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The American Alpine Club | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Washington Foundation | $1,371,408 | 5 | 1% |
| Town Hall Association | $516,150 | 6 | 5% |
| Seattle Opera | $400,000 | 6 | 1% |
| A Contemporary Theatre Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Cascade Public Media | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Institute of Flamenco | $50,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Northwest Harvest Emm | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington Trails Association | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The American Alpine Club | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $15,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation of the D of C | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Wing Luke Memorial Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawrence True & Linda Brown 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.
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How this is measured
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About Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation
- How much does Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation give?
- Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $891,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (35%), Civil Rights (15%).
- Who are Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Washington Foundation ($1.4M), Town Hall Association ($516k), Seattle Opera ($400k).
- Does Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Wyman Youth Trust, Artsfund.
- Where is Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation based?
- Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation is based in WA.
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