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.

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.

Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation

Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$59kFood & Nutrition$56kHealth$38kEducation$31kPhilanthropy$23kAnimals$19kEnvironment$17kArts & Culture$14kOther$0

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k12 grants · $27k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$314k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK	$10,000
DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER	$5,000
CANISIUS UNIVERSITY (ABEC)	$3,000
NAMI ST LOUIS	$3,000
ST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO	$2,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION	$2,000
SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION	$2,000
ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER	$2,000
TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER	$2,000
HERITAGE FUND--ST LOUIS WOMAN'S CLUB	$1,500
PEACEABLE PRIMATE SANCTUARY	$1,500
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY	$1,500
OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$1,000

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 (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$235k · 23 repeat orgs$31k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$235k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+51%

Still filing today

70%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalEducationEnvironmentHealthOther

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

SL
ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +17%
WF
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL
7× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +41%
NS
NAMI St Louis
9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +99%

Funded once

CA
CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +59%
CW
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +323%
WL
WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $2k

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.

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment

American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donald Danforth Plant Science Center; the most unlike its peers is Rainforest Alliance Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 44 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)

28/28

Grantees still filing

22/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$116,200International$57,500Philanthropy$27,800Education$22,050Health$20,000Animals$16,750Environment$7,750

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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