· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK | $10,000 |
| DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CANISIUS UNIVERSITY (ABEC) | $3,000 |
| NAMI ST LOUIS | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION | $2,000 |
| ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER | $2,000 |
| TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| HERITAGE FUND--ST LOUIS WOMAN'S CLUB | $1,500 |
| PEACEABLE PRIMATE SANCTUARY | $1,500 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SLST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +17%
- WFWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL7× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +41%
- NSNAMI St Louis9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +59%
- WLWORLD LITERACY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k
- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +323%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
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;…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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…
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,…
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI St Louis ↗
- Who funds CANISIUS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds Peaceable Primate Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILD CANID SURVIVAL AND RESEARCH CENTER INC DBA ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER ↗
- Who funds SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds WELCOME NEIGHBOR STL ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Forvis Mazars Foundation ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAGDALEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DISCOVERY GARDENS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robert Miller Brown & Thelma Yvonne Brown Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.