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The John and Rosemary Brown 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.

$6.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
123
Grants FY2025
106
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
48 to 119
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
17
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving119$6.0M30%
FY2024106$5.5M25%
FY2023119$4.5M34%
FY2022101$4.0M32%
FY202190$4.5M52%
FY202048$3.1M19%
FY201967$3.8M27%
FY201871$3.3M54%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11MHealth$11MArts & Culture$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.0MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MCrime & Legal$1.1MHousing & Shelter$1.1MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
MO
KY
VA
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
GA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc$4,620,00074%
Duke University$1,680,00080%
Freed-Hardeman University$1,600,00091%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$1,365,00091%
Emory University$1,343,0005n/a
Auburn University Foundation$1,020,00090%
Samford University$1,000,00010%
Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc$1,000,00022%
Georgia Justice Project Inc$835,000910%
Emory University$762,50040%
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All grantees of The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc$4,620,00074%
Duke University$1,680,00080%
Freed-Hardeman University$1,600,00091%
United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc$1,365,00091%
Emory University$1,343,0005n/a
Auburn University Foundation$1,020,00090%
Samford University$1,000,00010%
Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc$1,000,00022%
Georgia Justice Project Inc$835,000910%
Emory University$762,50040%
Spelman College$729,00090%
The Atlanta Opera Inc$600,80096%
Georgia Tech Foundation Inc$526,00030%
Feeding America$500,00010%
Charity Global Inc$500,00011%
Westside Future Fund Inc$499,00094%
Hope Atlanta Inc$450,00012%
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc$450,00012%
Open Hand Atlanta Inc$450,00013%
Meals on Wheels Atlanta Inc$440,00082%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$417,00060%
Downtown Emergency Service Center$350,0001n/a
The Grady Health Foundation Inc$345,00031%
Part of the Solution$300,0001n/a
Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation$300,00017%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc$300,00011%
Housing Development Alliance Inc$250,00012%
Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc$240,00030%
Southern Center for Human Rights$225,00051%
The Paideia School Inc$217,50090%
East Main Church of Christ$210,0005n/a
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$185,00040%
The Atlanta Womens Foundation Inc$180,00053%
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc$170,00051%
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc$150,00090%
Project Als Inc$150,00023%
Shepherd Center Foundation Inc$128,000834%
Indiana University Foundation$115,00060%
Anti-Defamation League$110,00060%
Atlanta Memorial Park Conservancy Inc$110,000710%
Usher's New Look Inc$100,00019%
Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra$100,00013%
Agape Community Center$100,00081%
Kalamazoo Gospel Mission$100,0002n/a
Latino Community Fund Inc$100,00013%
American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons$100,0001n/a
Visiting Nurse Health System Inc$98,50040%
The Sheltering Arms Inc$90,00070%
Atlanta Beltline Partnership Inc$90,00060%
United States Fund for Unicef$85,00050%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$85,00040%
Onboard Inc$85,00053%
Trinity School Inc$85,00080%
Trinity Presbyterian Church$80,0003n/a
The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc$79,00070%
Gapaba Law Foundation Inc$75,000523%
Covenant House Georgia Inc$75,00040%
Atlanta Shakespeare Company Inc$75,00071%
The Atlanta Botanical Garden Inc$75,00060%
Jewish Family & Career Services Inc$70,00060%
Lyric Opera of Chicago$70,00070%
Delta Research & Educational Foundation$70,00011%
Georgia Research Alliance Inc$65,00050%
United Way of South Central Michigan$65,00050%
Museum of Modern Art$62,50050%
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc$61,00070%
Kalamazoo Civic Theatre$60,0003n/a
George West Mental Health Foundation Inc$60,00050%
The Gateway Center Inc$60,00053%
Riverside Park Conservancy Inc$60,00040%
Rochester Christian University$60,00080%
Foundation for Physical Therapy Research Inc$60,00060%
The Trust for Public Land$57,00050%
Morehouse School of Medicine$55,00020%
Leadership Atlanta Inc$55,00041%
Georgia Legal Services Program Inc$55,00060%
Atlanta Historical Society Inc$55,00050%
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Inc$54,00050%
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation In$52,50060%
Water for Good$50,0001n/a
The Park Club$50,000122%
America-Israel Cultural Foundation Inc$50,00012%
Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc$50,00050%
Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta Inc$50,00051%
Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc$50,00010%
NAMI Georgia Inc$50,00051%
Foundation Christian Academy Inc$50,00011%
The Atlanta Girls' School Inc$45,00030%
American Cancer Society Inc$42,50040%
Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc$41,25030%
Arts Critic Atl Inc$40,00044%
Women's Foodservice Forum$37,50050%
Health Talents International Inc$35,00011%
Georgia Orthopaedic Society Inc$35,00025%
Mercy Care Foundation Inc$34,50030%
Chris 180 Inc$30,00040%
The Carnegie Hall Corporation$30,00020%
Auditory Verbal Center Inc$30,00012%
American Brain Foundation$30,00020%
Agnes Scott College$30,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta Inc$30,00030%
Atlanta Children's Shelter Incorporated$30,00021%
Marigold Collective$25,00019%
Mustard Tree Foundation Inc$25,000122%
Baptist Health Care Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Merian Ensemble Inc$25,000313%
Ellis Island Honors Society Inc$25,00041%
Hands on Atlanta Inc$25,00030%
Franklin Pond Chamber Music Inc$24,000310%
Status Home Inc F/K/A Jerusalem House Inc$20,00020%
The Boyce L Ansley School Inc$20,00023%
Sylvias Attic Inc$20,0001n/a
Junior Achievement of Southwest Michigan Inc$20,0002n/a
Black Economic Alliance Foundation$20,00020%
United Spinal Association Inc$20,00040%
Raising Expectations Inc$20,00021%
Hillels of Georgia Inc$20,00030%
National Center for Civil and Human Rights Inc$15,00020%
The Posse Foundation Inc$15,00030%
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc$15,00020%
Cwc Alliance Inc$15,00011%
Midtown Assistance Center Inc$15,00011%
Smile Train Inc$15,00010%
Codeorg$15,00010%
Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta Inc$15,00020%
Equal Justice Works$15,0001n/a
Nami Northside Atlanta Inc$12,5003n/a
Center for the Visually Impaired Foundation Inc$12,00021%
East Alabama Medical Center Foundation$10,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$10,00010%
The Giving Kitchen Initiative Inc$10,00010%
Camp Twin Lakes Inc$10,00010%
Atlanta Ballet Inc$10,00010%
Rustic Youth Camp$10,0001n/a
United Way of Long Island$10,00010%
Johnny Mac Soldiers Fund Inc$10,00010%
United Way Suncoast Inc$10,00010%
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption$10,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10,00010%
Georgia Education Foundation Inc$10,00026%
Heart of South Downtown Inc$10,0001n/a
Chastain Horse Park Ltd$10,0001n/a
Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Foundation Inc$10,00013%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$10,00010%
Intown Collaborative Ministries Inc$10,00010%
New York Shakespeare Festival$10,00010%
The Jack and Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation$10,00011%
Teach for America Inc$10,00020%
Shults-Lewis Child & Family Svcs I$10,00011%
Enactus$8,00020%
The Georgia Association of Black Women Attorneys$5,00017%
Atlanta Police Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Cancer Support Community Greater Philadelphia$5,00011%
Kipp Metro Atlanta Collaborative Inc$5,00010%
All for Lunch Inc$5,00013%
Trinity Academy Incorporated$5,00010%
Achieve Atlanta Inc$5,00010%
United Way of Northwest Indiana Inc$5,00010%
Atlanta Master Chorale$5,0001n/a
Foundation for Hospital Art Inc$5,00020%
American Marketing Association$5,00010%
Medshare International Inc$5,00010%
The Carter Center Inc$5,00010%
The Theatrical Outfit Inc$5,0002n/a
National Down Syndrome Congress$5,00010%
Texas Children's Hospital$5,00010%
Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc$5,00010%
Kate's Club Inc$5,00010%
Junior League of Atlanta Inc$5,00011%
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$5,00010%
East Cobb Church of Christ Inc$5,0001n/a
Wellstar Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Life House Atlanta Inc$5,00017%
Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation$5,00010%
Georgia Leadership Institute for School Improvement Inc$5,00010%
Temple Kol Emeth Ltd$5,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
American Farmland Trust$5,00010%
Fernbank Inc$5,00010%
Spruill Center for the Arts Inc$5,00010%
21st Century Leaders Inc$3,50010%
Wheels of Happiness Foundation Inc$3,00031%
Maui United Way$3,00010%
Angela Hospice Home Care Inc$2,50010%
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution$2,5001n/a
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc$2,50010%
Glioblastoma Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Joy Development School$2,00010%
Pretty Lake Vacation Camp Inc$1,00010%
FRAXA Research Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Ukrainian American Youth Association Inc$1,00010%
American Parkinson Disease Assoc$1,00010%
The Kyle Pease Foundation Inc$1,00010%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Kalamazoo College$1,00010%
Operation Hope Inc$1,00010%
Porch Inc$1,00010%
National Brain Tumor Society Inc$1,0001n/a
Childspring International Inc$1,00010%
ACLU Foundation of Georgia Inc$1,00010%
The Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation$1,00010%
Catawba Lands Conservancy$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 90 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 180 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPiedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc: $4,620,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetDuke University: $1,680,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFreed-Hardeman University: $1,600,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Atlanta Inc: $1,365,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $1,020,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSamford University: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGeorgia Justice Project Inc: $835,000 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetEmory University: $762,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $729,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Atlanta Opera Inc: $600,800 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetGeorgia Tech Foundation Inc: $526,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Global Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWestside Future Fund Inc: $499,000 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetHope Atlanta Inc: $450,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Foundation of America Inc: $450,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOpen Hand Atlanta Inc: $450,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $440,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $417,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Grady Health Foundation Inc: $345,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOrthopaedic Research and Education Foundation: $300,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHousing Development Alliance Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAtlanta Community Food Bank Inc: $240,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Center for Human Rights: $225,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Paideia School Inc: $217,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Atlanta Womens Foundation Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetHudson Valley Shakespeare Festival Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetRobert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc: $150,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProject Als Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetShepherd Center Foundation Inc: $128,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $115,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $110,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Memorial Park Conservancy Inc: $110,000 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetUsher's New Look Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetKalamazoo Symphony Orchestra: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetAgape Community Center: $100,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLatino Community Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetVisiting Nurse Health System Inc: $98,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Sheltering Arms Inc: $90,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Beltline Partnership Inc: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $85,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOnboard Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTrinity School Inc: $85,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $79,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 180.

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA61.5× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · AEC Trust · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation

How much does The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation give?
The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation reported 123 grants totaling $6,030,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 119 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (28%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Piedmont Healthcare Foundation Inc ($4.6M), Duke University ($1.7M), Freed-Hardeman University ($1.6M).
Does The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Imlay Foundation Inc, Georgia Power Foundation Inc.
Where is The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation based?
The John and Rosemary Brown Family Foundation is based in GA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 299 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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