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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.

$130k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$208kArts & Culture$188kRecreation & Sports$91kHuman Services$75kEducation$73kPhilanthropy$52kReligion$50kHousing & Shelter$45kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Care to Learn: $3k → 21%Missouri Veterans Endeavor: $3k → 11%Care to Learn: $2k → 21%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $10k → 11%Care to Learn: $2k → 21%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $3k → 11%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $2k → 11%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $25k → 11%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $20k → 11%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $15k → 11%St Joseph Institute for the Deaf: $15k → 11%Catholic Charities of St Louis: $3k → 21%Make a Wish Foundation: $3k → 11%Make a Wish Foundation: $3k → 11%Make a Wish Foundation: $3k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MT
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
NC
MS
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$740k · 49 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
24

Total granted

$740k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+30%

Still filing today

57%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthInternationalOther
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

  • JS
    JAZZ ST LOUIS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +10%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
    7× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +28%
  • WP
    WORLD PEDIATRICS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $79k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SJ
    St Joseph Institute
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • SL
    St Louis Community Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • SP
    ST PATRICK CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +30%
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.

1
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
2
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
3
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Neighborhood Solidarity Fund

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.

Community Improvement
5
St James Place of Baton Rouge Foundation

St. james place foundation promotes compasssion through giving to advance living life well at st. james place.

Housing & Shelter
6
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
7
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
8
Council Apartments Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Avila University

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,…

Education
10
Council Apartments Ii Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
The Louisville Urban League Inc

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.

Human Services
12
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $24,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTERST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherBelvedere Scholarship Fund: $15,000 · OtherSt Joseph Institute: $15,000 · OtherAlmost Home: $14,000 · OtherBEYOND HOUSING INC: $19,000 · OtherForest Park Forever Inc: $26,000 · OtherForest Park Forever IncVP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+49 more: $242,250 · Other+49 moreJAZZ ST LOUIS: $138,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ ST LOUISSTEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM: $11,500 · Arts & CultureSTEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM+3 more: $11,500 · Arts & Culture+3 moreST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $89,500 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH INS…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $7,500 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH F…Care to Learn: $6,500 · Human ServicesCare to Learn+2 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesWORLD PEDIATRICS: $79,000 · InternationalWORLD PEDI…+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $51,500 · Recreation & SportsMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,500 · PhilanthropyYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 · PhilanthropyThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 · PhilanthropyTABOR ACADEMY: $15,000 · EducationCITY ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $8,250 · EducationSaint Louis Fashion Fund: $4,500 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · Education
Other$390,750Arts & Culture$161,000Human Services$109,000International$81,500Recreation & Sports$56,500Philanthropy$44,500Education$42,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJAZZ ST LOUIS: $138,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetST JOSEPH INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF: $89,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $79,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFAIR SAINT LOUIS FOUNDATION: $51,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBELVEDERE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $26,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $24,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetBEYOND HOUSING INC: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVP COMMUNITY IMPACT FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlmost Home: $14,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSTEAMBOAT ART MUSEUM: $11,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCITY ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAVEN OF GRACE: $9,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FOOD SEARCH INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $8,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProvident Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CAREGIVER CLUB: $7,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCare to Learn: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALL AMONG US INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICK CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAYSVILLE PLAYERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN GOLF FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINDEPENDENCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASTING FOR RECOVERY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSaint Louis Fashion Fund: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAlive Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTOM BROWNING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ST LOUIS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST ANDREWS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZEN ST LOUIS: $2,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI VETERANS ENDEAVOR: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 THE CAREGIVER CLUB ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Care to Learn ↗
  • Who funds ALL AMONG US INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK 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.

St Louis Community Fo…St Louis Community Fo…World Wide Technology…United Way of Greater…Edward Jones Foundati…Moneta Group Charitab…Commerce Bancshares F…Pershing Charitable T…Employees Community F…Robert E Browning FundSt Louis Service Bure…Centene Foundation
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO39× affinity18 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 · 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

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 Russell E Browning Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Russell E Browning Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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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How do I get to Russell E Browning Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Russell E Browning Family 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.

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 81 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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