How much does Richard H Brown Foundation give?

Richard H Brown Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $126,050 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.

What does Richard H Brown Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (57%), Health (11%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Richard H Brown Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Michigan State University ($643k), Child Advocacy Center of Lapeer Co ($25k), Mercy Ships International ($25k).

Does Richard H Brown Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Richard H 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 Richard H Brown Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation, Heart of West Michigan United Way.

Where is Richard H Brown Foundation based?

Richard H Brown Foundation is based in MI.

Richard H Brown Foundation

Richard H Brown Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard H Brown Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$126k

Granted FY2022

Grants FY2022

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$672kHealth$133kHuman Services$74kArts & Culture$67kInternational$58kPhilanthropy$42kHousing & Shelter$33kFood & Nutrition$32kOther$0

02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

Under $10k5 grants · $16k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY	$100,000
UNITED WAY-LEE COUNTY	$10,000
SPARTA CELTIC FESTIVAL	$5,000
CONDUCTIVE LEARNING CENTER	$5,000
GOLF ASSOCIATION OF MICHIGAN FOUNDA	$5,000
KIDS FOOD BASKET	$1,000
GOLF COAST POLICE ASSN	$50

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 (FY17–21, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 35 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 29 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$126k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+44%

Still filing today

69%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalFood & NutritionOther

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

CA
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF LAPEER CO
4× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue +129%
Mercy Ships International
4× · 2018–2021 · $25k · revenue +114%
The United Way of Lee County Inc
4× · 2019–2022 · $25k · revenue +91%

Funded once

L
LIFESTREAM
one grant, 2020 · $20k
IC
IONIA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
one grant, 2020 · $10k
CL
CONDUCTIVE LEARNING CENTER-AQUINAS
one grant, 2017 · $7k

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.

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

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 Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

—

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech

Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services

Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

—

American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…

Community Improvement

Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc; the most unlike its peers is Genevieve and Donald S Gilmore Fdn. 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

45 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. 45 of the 81 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)

45/45

Grantees still filing

35/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$920,361International$57,500Health$51,290Human Services$43,600Arts & Culture$41,100Housing & Shelter$36,500Education$32,000

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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Sebastian Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Steve & Amy Van Andel Foundation · Frey Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Jack and Lija Romence Family Foundation · Jct Foundation

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 Richard H Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard H Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

14report 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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