Kentucky · Private foundation
The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 95
- Grants FY2024
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $333,453
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 85
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 16
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 64 | $2.6M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $3.1M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $3.2M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 85 | $2.9M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $1.8M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $1.1M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 53 | $1.0M | 72% |
| FY2017 | 41 | $453k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky College of Art Design | $1,808,284 | 5 | 35% |
| Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc | $1,289,895 | 4 | 10% |
| Tsoknyi Humanitarian Foundation | $834,460 | 6 | 19% |
| Speed Art Museum | $808,114 | 8 | 2% |
| The Louisville Orchestra Inc | $624,864 | 5 | 3% |
| Maiden Voyage Productions Inc | $508,146 | 8 | 80% |
| The Thacher School Inc | $401,234 | 3 | 1% |
| Katherine Delmar Burke School | $341,357 | 4 | 1% |
| Center for Interfaith Relations | $276,942 | 6 | 27% |
| Mind & Life Institute | $276,689 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 169 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 150 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Brooke Brown Barzun Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Owsley Brown II Family Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Norton Foundation Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found
- How much does The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found give?
- The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found reported 95 grants totaling $2,710,992 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 85 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Arts & Culture (26%), Religion (8%).
- Who are The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kentucky College of Art Design ($1.8M), Parks Alliance of Louisville Inc ($1.3M), Tsoknyi Humanitarian Foundation ($834k).
- Does The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found 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 Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Sociable Weaver Foundation Inc, The Gheens Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found based?
- The Owsley Brown III Philanthropic Found is based in KY.
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