Minnesota · Private foundation
Marguerite V Brown
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $41k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $549
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,849
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $755k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Marguerite V Brown funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 23 | $41k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $39k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $36k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $45k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $41k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $38k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $38k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $38k | 67% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $22,578 | 5 | n/a |
| Creighton University | $13,020 | 6 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $9,353 | 4 | 0% |
| College of Saint Mary | $5,492 | 3 | 0% |
| Simpson College | $5,108 | 3 | 0% |
| Briar Cliff University | $5,083 | 2 | 0% |
| Coe College | $4,331 | 2 | 0% |
| Morningside University | $4,064 | 4 | 0% |
| Midland University | $4,052 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand View University | $3,721 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | $22,578 | 5 | n/a |
| Creighton University | $13,020 | 6 | 0% |
| Buena Vista University | $9,353 | 4 | 0% |
| College of Saint Mary | $5,492 | 3 | 0% |
| Simpson College | $5,108 | 3 | 0% |
| Briar Cliff University | $5,083 | 2 | 0% |
| Coe College | $4,331 | 2 | 0% |
| Morningside University | $4,064 | 4 | 0% |
| Midland University | $4,052 | 3 | 0% |
| Grand View University | $3,721 | 2 | 0% |
| Clarkson College | $2,115 | 1 | 0% |
| Central College | $2,047 | 1 | 0% |
| Rockhurst University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North Central University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Drake University | $1,929 | 4 | 0% |
| William Penn University | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Umkc Foundation | $1,345 | 1 | 0% |
| Grand Canyon University | $1,049 | 2 | 0% |
| Lipscomb University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lees-McRae College Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bellevue University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwest University | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Luther College | $686 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas State University | $549 | 1 | n/a |
| Upper Iowa University | $549 | 1 | 0% |
| Nebraska Wesleyan University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| California Baptist University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($249k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marguerite V Brown 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: Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust · Iowa College Foundation · The Eagle Foundation · Ottumwa Regional Legacy Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Louis J Elbert Trust · Joseph J Sinek Scholarship Trust · Bernice E Peterson Scholarship Trust · Mahana-Cong Church Scholar Found · Willard E and Ella P Thompson Educational Fund
How this is measured
About Marguerite V Brown
- How much does Marguerite V Brown give?
- Marguerite V Brown reported 24 grants totaling $40,671 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Marguerite V Brown fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Health (1%), Science & Tech (0%).
- Who are Marguerite V Brown's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska ($23k), Creighton University ($13k), Buena Vista University ($9k).
- Does Marguerite V Brown fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marguerite V Brown accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Marguerite V Brown?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bestenlehner D and F Educational Tr, Roy J Carver Charitable Trust, Fahrney Education Fdtn Trust.
- Where is Marguerite V Brown based?
- Marguerite V Brown is based in MN.
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