Missouri · Private foundation
The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn
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.
- $182k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 68% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $182k | 86% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $156k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $170k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $175k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $205k | 73% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $180k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $210k | 89% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $209k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Crisis Aid Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Love the Lou | $80,000 | 4 | 4% |
| One Classroom | $72,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Archdiocesan Elementary Schools of the Archdiocese of St Louis | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Mission St Louis | $55,000 | 2 | 1% |
| South City Community School | $50,000 | 3 | 2% |
| St Mary's South Side Catholic High School | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tabernacle Community Development Corporation | $50,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Vitendo4africa | $42,000 | 2 | 30% |
| Rosati-Kain Academy | $40,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($418k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Vatterott Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · The E Walter Hausstette Charitable Foundation C/O Mike Moloney Big Sky · Norman J Stupp Foundation · The Neeb Family Foundation · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company
How this is measured
Compare The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn with peer funders
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About The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn
- How much does The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn give?
- The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn reported 7 grants totaling $181,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (15%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: International Crisis Aid Inc ($90k), Love the Lou ($80k), One Classroom ($72k).
- Does The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include St Louis Community Foundation Inc, St Louis Community Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn based?
- The Barbara and Helen Brown Family Fdn is based in MO.
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