· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KIMBRELL FAMILY FUND | $200,500 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDREN'S FUND | $50,000 |
| CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS | $20,000 |
| BARTOW FAMILY RESOURCES AND BFR MEDICAL | $20,000 |
| CHEROKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CHEROKEE PREGNANCY CENTER | $20,000 |
| BOYS FARM | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CAMP LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY INC | $15,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $15,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY | $15,000 |
| GO TELL CRUSADES INC | $11,000 |
| SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| PAK7 US INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $398k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE3× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +106%
- BFBoys Farm Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +4%
- MHMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- SSSTRAIGHT STREET LAURENS INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -72%
- PEPINE EDEN CHRISTIAN RETREATone grant, 2023 · $25k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY LOW COUNTRYone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
Religious Travel in US and abroad to share the gospel of Jesus Christ. Church planting. Humanitarian aid (orphanages and feeding stations).
To give the gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth to the poor and dejected of the world. We do this by caring for widows, orphans, and broken people around the world. We care for hem by feeding, clothing, and encouraging them in Jesus by His…
To help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Feeding the hungry
Missionary support ministry to pastors and missionaries in Africa and India. We encouraging and uplifting them with spiritual and devotional teachings of Jesus using the internet. Partners in winning souls for the Kingdom of God.
To teach the bible to pastors and church leaders in africa and asia, while funding food for orphaned and abandonded children
Evangelizing the lost through gospel crusades, camps and conferences; Empowering orphans and widows and those in need through Christ-centered vocational training; and Equipping ministers of the gospel through Christian seminars and…
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Teach the ministry of christ
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 46 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 GO TELL CRUSADES INC F/K/A RICK GAGE EVANGELISTIC ASSOC ↗
- Who funds Send56 Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GOTELL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT STREET LAURENS INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds THE SPARTANBURG SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR GEORGETOWN COUNTY SC INC ↗
- Who funds IM JAI HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Lighthouse Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS ↗
- Who funds LEGACY ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM FIRST MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PAK7 US Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING VINE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION PATRIOTS FOB 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brown Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brown Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
How this is measured
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