· Private foundation
The Elizabeth Brown Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER | $20,000 |
| OPEN SPACE COUNCIL | $16,000 |
| AUDUBON CENTER RIVERLANDS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SHORE RIVERS | $10,000 |
| GREAT RIVERS LAW CENTER | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISHORERIVERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +11%
- DDDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +9%
DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY4× · 2020–2023 · $42k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- CGCITY GREENS MARKET INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -21%
- FPForest Park Forever Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +137%
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEESone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +14%
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 mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
To acquire and build a botanical garden
Development in Gardening is improving the nutrition and livelihoods of some of the world's most uniquely marginalized people by teaching them to plant regenerative gardens that grow health, wealth, and a sense of belonging.
Missouri gateway green building council works collaboratively to accelerate the greening of buildings and communities in our region; promoting environmentally responsible, prosperous, healthy, and equitable places to live, work, and learn.
Exploring, explaining and celebrating the world of plants.
To beautify chicagoland's expressway system, its gateways andneighborhoods surrounding the expressways.
Baltimore Green Space is a land trust that partners with communities to preserve and support community gardens , forest patches , pocket parks , and other community-managed spaces.
The primary program of the lincoln park conservancy is to grow a sustainable organic garden.
DC Greens advances health equity by building a just and resilient food system.
The memphis botanic garden exists to enhance lives by connecting people with nature to increase awareness and appreciation of our environment.
Providing financial and volunteer support for parks in st charles county missouri.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DREAM BUILDERS 4 EQUITY ↗
- Who funds Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation ↗
- Who funds SEED ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CITY GREENS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Pocketparks ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Elizabeth Brown Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elizabeth Brown Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
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