Missouri · Private foundation
Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne 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.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $314k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $37k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $33k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $34k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $35k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $28k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $28k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $25k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $25k | 38% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Louis Area Food Bank Inc | $50,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Women for Women International | $43,000 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| NAMI St Louis | $20,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Canisius University | $13,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Alight | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Peaceable Primate Sanctuary | $9,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Wild Canid Survival and Research Center Inc Dba Endangered Wolf Center | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $5,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation
- How much does Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation give?
- Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $36,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (22%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Health (14%).
- Who are Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Louis Area Food Bank Inc ($50k), Women for Women International ($43k), United Way of Greater St Louis Inc ($21k).
- Does Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne 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 Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, Moneta Group Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation based?
- Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation is based in MO.
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