· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $50,880 |
| GEORGETOWN COLLEGE | $29,307 |
| THE LEXINGTON SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON | $20,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE BISHOP SCHOOL | $17,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,750 |
| HOPE CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY SCHOLARSHIP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SURGERY ON SUNDAY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| THE MADEIRA SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| THE CALIFORNIA LACROSSE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 29% of Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 55% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 44%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 20 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $202k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGEORGETOWN COLLEGE2× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +29%
- THTHE HOPE CENTER INC3× · 2019–2025 · $11k · revenue +109%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC2× · 2020–2025 · $3k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- WFWENDELL FOSTER HOMEone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SSSAYRE SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +41%
- COCATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE KINGone grant, 2019 · $500
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.
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How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 57 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 GEORGETOWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE JOBS OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S PANTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SURGERY ON SUNDAY INC ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 - OWENSBORO INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAYRE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HENRY CLAY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Norman & Elizabeth Brown Family Charitable Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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