Wisconsin · Private foundation
Milton R Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations Milton R Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 25 | $44k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $49k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $43k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $47k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $49k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $50k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $177k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $8k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yerkes Future Foundation Inc | $44,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc | $15,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Lake Geneva Garden Club Foundation Inc | $11,903 | 4 | 17% |
| The Garden Club of America | $10,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Museum of Fine Arts Houston | $9,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Grand Opera Association Inc | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Geneva Lake Sailing School Inc | $5,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Junior League of Houston Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bo's Place | $4,625 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($313k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Milton R 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Otzen Family Foundation Incorporated · Dean L & Rosemarie Buntrock Foundation · Strake Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Griffith Family Foundation · The John a Miller Family Foundation · A G Cox Charity Trust Xxxxx9001
How this is measured
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About Milton R Brown Family Foundation
- How much does Milton R Brown Family Foundation give?
- Milton R Brown Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $44,350 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Milton R Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (68%), Environment (14%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Milton R Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Yerkes Future Foundation Inc ($44k), Geneva Lake Conservancy Inc ($16k), Lake Geneva Garden Club Foundation Inc ($12k).
- Does Milton R Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Milton R Brown Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Milton R Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Brown Foundation Inc, Houston Endowment Inc.
- Where is Milton R Brown Family Foundation based?
- Milton R Brown Family Foundation is based in WI.
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