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Russell E Browning Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k25 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fair St Louis Foundation | $25,000 |
| St Joseph Institute for the Deaf | $25,000 |
| Town & Country Historical Society | $10,000 |
| Jazz St Louis | $7,000 |
| Beyond Housing | $5,000 |
| Forest Park Forever | $5,000 |
| World Pediatric Project | $5,000 |
| Belvedere Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| Proud Art St Louis | $2,500 |
| Missouri Veterans Endeavor | $2,500 |
| University City Childrens Center | $2,500 |
| Project Healing Waters | $2,500 |
| The Caregiver Club | $2,500 |
| Moms & Tots Samaritan House | $2,500 |
| St Louis Food Bank | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- JSJAZZ ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +10%
- SJST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF7× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +28%
- WPWORLD PEDIATRICS7× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SJSt Joseph Instituteone grant, 2021 · $15k
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +11%
CASTING FOR RECOVERYone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +24%
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.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Invest stl facilitates investment in the power of people and their neighborhoods to develop communities of justice and opportunity in places that continue to endure the legacy of systemic anti-black racism.
St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
As an active partner, leader and catalyst, we will assist african americans, other minority groups and the disadvantaged attain social and economic equality and stability through direct services and advocacy.
Economic development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Tom Browning Boys and Girls Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 81 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 JAZZ ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
- Who funds FAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds VP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Almost Home ↗
- Who funds STEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAVEN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Provident Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds THE CAREGIVER CLUB ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Care to Learn ↗
- Who funds ALL AMONG US INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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 · World Wide Technology Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Pershing Charitable Trust · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Robert E Browning Fund · St Louis Service Bureau Foundation · Centene Foundation
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 Russell E Browning Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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.
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