Kentucky · Private foundation
Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation
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.
- $271k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2020
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2020
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,880
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 26
- FY2019 to FY2020
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2020, 42% of the organizations Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $270k | 77% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $44k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $62k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Presbyterian Church | $50,880 | 1 | n/a |
| Georgetown College | $38,407 | 2 | 0% |
| Lexington School Inc | $28,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Jubilee Jobs of Lexington Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bishop School | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hope Center Inc | $11,200 | 3 | 0% |
| God's Pantry Food Bank Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Surgery on Sunday Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Madeira School | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hopeful Hearts Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($149k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation 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: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Rosenstein Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Crutcher Family Foundation Inc · Elhapa Foundation Inc · United Way of the Bluegrass Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · William T Young Foundation Inc · Bertha Lebus Charitable Trust · The Mt Brilliant Family Foundation (Formerly Hgg Family Foundation)
How this is measured
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About Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation
- How much does Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation give?
- Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation reported 27 grants totaling $270,537 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 26 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2020.
- What does Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (37%), Education (28%), Health (13%).
- Who are Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: First Presbyterian Church ($51k), Georgetown College ($38k), Lexington School Inc ($29k).
- Does Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2020, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation 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 Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc, Baird Foundation Inc, The HEP Foundation Business Trust L Edwin Paulson Jr Trustee.
- Where is Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation based?
- Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation is based in KY.
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