Tennessee · Private foundation
The Robert H Brethen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $707k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $495,632
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations The Robert H Brethen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $682k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $215k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $626k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $146k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $249k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $229k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $202k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $582k | 25% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miami Valley Hospital Foundation | $704,632 | 5 | 2% |
| Dayton History | $618,160 | 6 | 4% |
| Covenant Health Foundation | $300,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Daybreak Inc | $266,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Ohio's Hospice Foundation | $250,654 | 6 | 1% |
| Pelotonia | $162,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Humane Society of Greater Dayton | $119,750 | 5 | 3% |
| Goodwill Easter Seals Miami Valley | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Seedling Foundation of Dayton Ohio | $50,500 | 1 | 8% |
| The Animal Protectorates | $44,500 | 4 | 17% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($365k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert H Brethen Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · The Berry Family Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Iddings Benevolent Trust Xxxxx5009 · Mathile Family Foundation · The Jesse and Caryl Philips Foundation · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · The United Way of the Greater Dayton Area · Virginia Conlogue Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Robert H Brethen Foundation
- How much does The Robert H Brethen Foundation give?
- The Robert H Brethen Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $706,632 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Robert H Brethen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Arts & Culture (26%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are The Robert H Brethen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Miami Valley Hospital Foundation ($705k), Dayton History ($618k), Covenant Health Foundation ($300k).
- Does The Robert H Brethen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert H Brethen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Robert H Brethen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dayton Foundation Plus Inc, The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository.
- Where is The Robert H Brethen Foundation based?
- The Robert H Brethen Foundation is based in TN.
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