South Carolina · Private foundation
The Brown Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $487k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 88%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $9.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations The Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $487k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $330k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $131k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $76k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $57k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go Tell Crusades Inc F/K/A Rick Gage Evangelistic Assoc | $61,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Send56 Ministry Inc | $56,000 | 2 | 4% |
| South Carolina Childrens Fund | $50,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $47,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Gotell Ministries Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Boys Farm Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Miracle Hill Ministries Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Straight Street Laurens Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Cherokee County Meals on Wheels | $20,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Spartanburg Soup Kitchen Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($526k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Brown Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Brown Family Foundation
- How much does The Brown Family Foundation give?
- The Brown Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $487,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Health (26%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are The Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Go Tell Crusades Inc F/K/A Rick Gage Evangelistic Assoc ($61k), Send56 Ministry Inc ($56k), South Carolina Childrens Fund ($50k).
- Does The Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brown Family Foundation 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 Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is The Brown Family Foundation based?
- The Brown Family Foundation is based in SC.
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