· Private foundation
The Brown Foundation for Shared Prosperity
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.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Rosies Place | $5,000 |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program | $5,000 |
| Community Servings | $5,000 |
| Kids Meals | $5,000 |
| Montrose Grace Place | $2,500 |
| THE BEACON | $2,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 8 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brown Foundation for Shared Prosperity funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brown Foundation for Shared Prosperity. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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