· Private foundation
Roger a Browning Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR THE COMMUNITY | $30,000 |
| GRAND RIVER ENTERTAINMENT | $5,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN INDUSTRIES INC | $4,500 |
| CHILLICOTHE HIGH SCHOOL BAND | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| HOME OF SLICED BREAD CORPORATION | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI EXTENSION | $2,000 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,700 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CECHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $291k · revenue +30%
- GRGRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA INC7× · 2017–2024 · $52k · revenue +105%
- GRGRAND RIVER ENTERTAINMENT8× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- HOHOUSE OF PRAYER RESCUE MISSIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FOFRIENDS OF CHILLICOTHE PARKS INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
- KPKELLY POLING ARTS DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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.
Preservation of county history and the county museum.
Collection and preservation of historical documents pertaining to saint charles county, missouri and making them available to the general public
Economic development in chillicothe, missouri.
The purpose of the organization is to preserve, educate and provide information and resources of the history of st. clair county, illinois.
Support students and alumni of chillicothe city schools.
Encourage, promote, correlate and cooperate in research, exhibition, and display of historical items in crook county wyoming
The chippewa area history center works to preserve local history and make it available to the public.
The focus of main street chillicothe is to enhance the vitality of the downtown by preservation of its architectural, commercial, and cultural heritage. these objectives are accomplished through education and community awareness of…
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
Operation of museum
Maintain historical artifacts
Operation of the henry county museum and preservation of historical buildings and antiques with the facilities being open to the public
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER ENTERTAINMENT ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR THE COMMUNIT ↗
- Who funds HOME OF SLICED BREAD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KELLY POLING ARTS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE FINE ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE AREA CHRISTIAN BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds Livingston County 4-H & FFA Fair Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HEDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHOES FROM THE HEART ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH MISSOURI CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Roger a Browning Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger a Browning Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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