· Private foundation
The Browning Family Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Browning Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Browning Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 33 organizations, $25k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL VERMONT HOME HEALTH & HOSPICE INC | $1,500 |
| ST MONICA CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| FALL MOUNTAIN FRIENDLY MEALS | $1,000 |
| WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $1,000 |
| FREEZING FUN FOR FAMILIES INC | $1,000 |
| ELM CITY CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC | $1,000 |
| Walpole Elementary School | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $1,000 |
| CIRCLE INC | $1,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF BURLINGTON | $1,000 |
| THREE ANGELS FUND | $750 |
| OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER | $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 (FY17–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% 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.
53 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 88% 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
- VFVERMONT FOODBANK7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +50%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $19k · revenue +145%- GMGREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC6× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SEST ELIZABETH OF HUNGARY PARISHone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEone grant, 2018 · $3k
- WWWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT LONG TERM SUPPORT TRone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Veic is a sustainable energy company on a mission to generate the energy solutions the world needs (continues in schedule o). (continued), working to combat the climate crisis, boost community resilience, and lower energy costs. for nearly…
Vermont electric cooperative is a member owned not-for-profit whose mission is to provide safe, affordable, and reliable energy services to its members.
Serve as the governing organization for physicians who are employed to provide clinical services to affiliated member hospitals (the "affiliated hospitals") of the university of vermont health network ("uvm health network").
Southwestern vermont health care exists to provide exceptional health care and comfort to the people we serve. see schedule o for additional details.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To care for and comfort our patients, residents, and their loved ones and to improve the health status of the communities we serve. the purpose of the organization is also to promote and support the development and maintenance of a highly…
To provide comprehensive, high-quality home healthcare to the community to all who need services within our financial resources and through the generosity of the communities served by the vna.
How this is measured
71 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 71 of the 99 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 RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Myositis Association ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds FALL MOUNTAIN FRIENDLY MEALS ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WALPOLE VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- Who funds VERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRANARA SKERRY TRUST ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA 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: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Richard E and Deborah L Tarrant Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Browning Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Browning Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Foundation of Recovery Inc: 81% of income from government
- Turning Point of Franklin County I: 71% of income from government
- Good Samaritan Haven Inc: 63% of income from government
- Circle Inc: 60% of income from government
- Vermont Granite Museum of Barre: 19% of income from government
- Green Mountain United Way Inc: 15% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank: 13% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
- Central Vermont Home Health & Hospice Inc: 3% of income from government
- Aldrich Public Library: 2% of income from government
- Central Vermont Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
- Vermont Public Co: 0% of income from government
- Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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