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Roger a Browning Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$126k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Roger a Browning Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitAnimalsHealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$126k40%
FY202410$131k30%
FY20239$82k22%
FY20227$78k29%
FY20217$74k43%
FY202010$89k40%
FY20198$59k25%
FY201812$77k58%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$312kPublic Benefit$108kRecreation & Sports$63kEmployment$60kArts & Culture$58kHousing & Shelter$58kHuman Services$54kFood & Nutrition$43kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Roger a Browning Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chillicothe Educational Foundation$290,550712%
Livingston County Veterans Association$102,500610%
Hope Haven Industries Inc$59,50042%
Grand River Area Family YMCA Inc$51,92071%
Grand River Entertainment$30,50087%
Concerned Citizens for the Communit$30,00014%
Home of Sliced Bread Corporation$28,000538%
Friends of Chillicothe Parks Inc$25,0001n/a
Kelly Poling Arts District$10,0001n/a
Chillicothe Fine Arts Council Inc$10,00026%
Chillicothe Area Christian Builders$7,500211%
American Legion$5,0002n/a
Livingston County 4-H & FFA Fair Association Inc$5,00021%
Livingston County Humane Society$2,50011%
Grand River Historial Society Museum$2,00012%
Hedrick Medical Center Foundation Inc$1,50022%
Greenhills Cyclists Foundation$1,5001n/a
Shoes From the Heart$1,30020%
Special Olympics Missouri Inc$1,0001n/a
North Missouri Center for Youth and Families Inc$1,00010%
Livingston County Preservation Society$2921n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($109k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Roger a Browning Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChillicothe Educational Foundation: $290,550 over 7y, 12% of budgetLivingston County Veterans Association: $102,500 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetHope Haven Industries Inc: $59,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGrand River Area Family YMCA Inc: $51,920 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGrand River Entertainment: $30,500 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetConcerned Citizens for the Communit: $30,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetHome of Sliced Bread Corporation: $28,000 over 5y, 38% of budgetChillicothe Fine Arts Council Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetChillicothe Area Christian Builders: $7,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetLivingston County 4-H & FFA Fair Association Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLivingston County Humane Society: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGrand River Historial Society Museum: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHedrick Medical Center Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetShoes From the Heart: $1,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Missouri Center for Youth and Families Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Mervyn W Jenkins FoundationMO39.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation · Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation · Livingston County Community Foundation · Hal F Juckette Family Foundation · Carl C & Ardath Hudnall Foundation · Minnie B Hedrick Trust · Fm & Gladys McCall Foundation · James Allbritain Lawson Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Roger a Browning Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Roger a Browning Foundation Inc

How much does Roger a Browning Foundation Inc give?
Roger a Browning Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $126,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Roger a Browning Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Public Benefit (14%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
Who are Roger a Browning Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chillicothe Educational Foundation ($291k), Livingston County Veterans Association ($103k), Hope Haven Industries Inc ($60k).
Does Roger a Browning Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Roger a Browning Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Roger a Browning Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation, Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation, Livingston County Community Foundation.
Where is Roger a Browning Foundation Inc based?
Roger a Browning Foundation Inc is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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