How much does R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation give?

R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $172,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Education (18%), Arts & Culture (12%).

Who are R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Barnesville School Inc ($119k), Upper Montgomery County Volunteer Fire Department ($62k), Holy Cross Health Foundation Inc ($41k).

Does R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation 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 R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Butz Foundation Inc, The Kay Family Foundation Inc.

Where is R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation based?

R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation is based in MD.

R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation

R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation

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.

$172k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$269kEducation$152kArts & Culture$103kHealth$84kPublic Safety & Disaster$67kHuman Services$56kYouth Development$41kFood & Nutrition$14kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $69k
$10k–50k6 grants · $103k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Saint Peters Church	$30,000
Barnesville School	$22,000
WUMCO	$15,000
Lions Club Foundation	$14,000
Riverworks Art Center	$12,000
Upper Montgomery County Fire Dept	$10,000
Poolesville Area Senior Center	$7,000
Holy Cross Health Foundation	$7,000
Monocacy Lions Club	$5,000
Mighty Eighth Air Force	$5,000
Randolph Macon Academy	$5,000
National Vietnam War Museum	$4,500
St Jude Childrens Hospital	$4,000
Miracle 4 Melanie	$3,500
Poolesville Presbyterian Church	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$826k · 42 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

42 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$826k

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+9%

Still filing today

62%

68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Public BenefitArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TB
THE BARNESVILLE SCHOOL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $119k · revenue +33%
UM
UPPER MONTGOMERY COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +139%
HC
HOLY CROSS HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +126%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $1k
NV
NATIONAL VIETNAM WAR MUSEUM INC
one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
NV
Natioanl Vietnam War Museum
one grant, 2023 · $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.

04Its field

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.

Museum of the American Revolution

The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.

Arts & Culture

The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

The mission of the mount vernon ladies' association is to preserve, restore, and manage the estate of george washington to the highest standards and to educate visitors and people throughout the world about the life and legacies of george…

Arts & Culture

University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health

Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education

University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Education

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Health

National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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University of Maryland Otorhino-Laryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Pa

Health

University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Paws for Purple Hearts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 68 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

31/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$654,430Human Services$50,200Health$44,500Arts & Culture$43,835Education$33,200Public Benefit$14,175Food & Nutrition$8,000

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.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Butz Foundation Inc · The Kay Family Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R Edwin and WS Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home