· Private foundation
The Brown 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $101k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENVILLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $100,500 |
| DARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DARKE COUNTY EDUCATIONAL HISTORY | $2,000 |
| DARKE COUNTY AGICULTURAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| FREE STORE FOOD BANK-CINCINNATI | $2,000 |
| LIFE UNTETHERED INC | $1,000 |
| DARKE COUNTY PREGNANCY CENTER | $1,000 |
| GHS VOCAL MUSIC BOOSTERS | $1,000 |
| PURRFECT HAVEN PET SHELTER | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MURALS OF GREENVILLE OHIO | $1,000 |
| MAIN STREET GREENVILLE | $1,000 |
| GREENVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS | $500 |
| GREENVILLE CITY SCHOOLS | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DCDARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +20%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENVILLEINC9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +84%
- AOANNIE OAKLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $8k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- DCDARKE CO HISTORICAL SOCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FFFREESTORE FOODBANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +61%
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Preserve history of starke county indiana
Protect and revitalize the historically and culturally significant commercial area of danville, ohio.
To enhance the economic and cultural vitality of the greenport village business district.
To foster interest in the agriculture community and to bring the community together to better understand how to raise and produce agricultural products.
To provide a place for youth and residences of muskingum county to display, sell and buy agricultural products produced within muskingum county. to provide live entertainment and a social gathering for the residents of the county.
To give young women who find themselves in unexpected pregnancy the guidance, support, and education needed to enable them to make responsible decisions regarding parenting.
To preserve and share local history
To collect and preserve any and all historic materials books artifacts machinery etc.
Historical Society Museum
To educate the public about the history of hamilton county, indiana and to preserve historic structures in hamlton county, indiana
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 DARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DARKE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENVILLEINC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE INSTRUMENTAL BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNIE OAKLEY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENVILLE ATHLETIC BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE UNTETHERED ↗
- Who funds DARKE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOLO OF DARKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PURFECT HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BEAR'S MILL 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: Lydia Schaurer Memorial Trust Fund · Harry D Stephens Memorial Inc · Ketrow Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brown Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brown Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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