Texas · Private foundation
M and A Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $575k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations M and A Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $515k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $407k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $450k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $448k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $350k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $313k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $374k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $344k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uplift Education | $984,182 | 9 | 0% |
| The Episcopal School of Dallas Inc | $190,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Lamplighter School | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ut Southwestern Health Systems | $175,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Life Sciences Research Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Perot Museum of Nature & Science | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Society Inc | $92,000 | 8 | 0% |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $65,413 | 5 | 0% |
| Heartwood Educational Collaborative | $45,000 | 3 | 21% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget M and A Brown Family 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.
Open a dossier: The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About M and A Brown Family Foundation
- How much does M and A Brown Family Foundation give?
- M and A Brown Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $575,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does M and A Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (33%), Science & Tech (7%).
- Who are M and A Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Uplift Education ($984k), The Episcopal School of Dallas Inc ($190k), The Lamplighter School ($180k).
- Does M and A Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does M and A Brown Family 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 M and A Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Eugene McDermott Foundation, The Addy Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation.
- Where is M and A Brown Family Foundation based?
- M and A Brown Family Foundation is based in TX.
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