· Private foundation
Milton R Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| HOUSTON BALLET | $10,873 |
| DAYA | $3,000 |
| D ELVIN BROWN SCHOLARSHIP | $3,000 |
| HOUSTON GRAND OPERA | $2,500 |
| LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOC | $2,500 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BAYOU BEND COLLECTION & GARDENS | $750 |
| MERCURY CHAMBER ORCHERSTRA INC | $575 |
| HOUSTON PROF FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOC | $500 |
| GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT | $500 |
| HOPE BIOSCIENCES RESEACH FOUNDATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GLGENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $16k · revenue +118%
- LGLAKE GENEVA GARDEN CLUB FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $12k · revenue +168%
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON4× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TJThe Junior League of Houston Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +63%
- DED ELVIN BROWN SCHOLARSHIP FOR EMMA WALLACE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLATTEVIone grant, 2020 · $2k
- BCBOYLAN CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The Heritage Society (THS) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1954 whose mission is to tell the stories of the diverse history of Houston and Texas through collections, exhibits, the arts, educational programs, film, video, and other…
This organization accepts, receives, holds, and invests endowment funds for the benefit of Houston Grand Opera Association of Houston, Texas.
The Club's mission is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to protect the quality of the environment through programs and action in the fields of education, conservation, and civic improvement.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The Menil Collection ("The Menil") is committed to its founders' belief that art is essential to human experience. The Menil fosters direct personal encounters with art, and welcomes all visitors free of charge to its museum buildings and…
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.
The purpose of River Oaks Garden Club is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening and to restore, improve, and protect the quality of the environment through educational programs and action in the fields of conservation and civic…
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds YERKES FUTURE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA GARDEN CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Houston Grand Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Junior League of Houston Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE GENEVA FRESH AIR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bo's Place ↗
- Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds LEGACY COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Daya Inc ↗
- Who funds Houston Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds GENEVA AREA FOUNDATION INC HORTICULTURAL HALL ↗
- Who funds Hope Stone Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CORONADO ↗
- Who funds GENEVA LAKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Children At Risk ↗
- Who funds KLEHM ARBORETUM AND BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Astrodome Conservancy ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Milton R Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Milton R Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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