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The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
65
Grants FY2025
74
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$219,000
Organizations funded a year
44 to 74
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentFood & 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 arriving62$1.5M13%
FY202474$1.6M9%
FY202373$1.2M11%
FY202274$1.2M11%
FY202170$1.3M23%
FY202053$454k15%
FY201959$375k37%
FY201844$240k39%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$1.9MEducation$1.3MHealth$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.2MHuman Services$704kArts & Culture$557kEnvironment$303kFood & Nutrition$267kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

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
The Bg Charitable Foundation$685,0005100%
Dutchess Community College Foundation Inc$530,00065%
North Naples United Methodist Church$324,0009n/a
Vassar Brothers Medical Center$225,00070%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$163,00090%
Dutchess County Spca Inc$127,50081%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$124,00080%
Naples Children Foundation Inc$123,00080%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$122,00050%
Scenic Hudson Inc$115,00070%
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All grantees of The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Bg Charitable Foundation$685,0005100%
Dutchess Community College Foundation Inc$530,00065%
North Naples United Methodist Church$324,0009n/a
Vassar Brothers Medical Center$225,00070%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$163,00090%
Dutchess County Spca Inc$127,50081%
Midwest Food Bank Nfp$124,00080%
Naples Children Foundation Inc$123,00080%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$122,00050%
Scenic Hudson Inc$115,00070%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc$113,00080%
First Colony Foundation$106,000583%
National Military Family Association$100,00071%
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida$84,50070%
Hyde Park Food Pantry Inc$82,000629%
Abilities First Inc$77,00050%
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc$75,00010%
The Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad$75,00062%
Epilepsy Florida Inc$67,00080%
Church Club of New York$66,5009n/a
Family Services of Westchester Inc$65,00050%
Beatrix Farrand Garden Assoc Inc$63,000723%
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc$50,00020%
Cardinal Hayes Home for Children$49,00070%
Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill Inc$35,00043%
Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc$33,50051%
Day One of New York Inc$25,00011%
The Trustees of Princeton University$25,00020%
Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem$24,50080%
The Society of the Cincinnati$20,00050%
Cathedral Church of St John the Divine$18,0009n/a
The New Deal Creative Arts Center Inc$17,500313%
Anderson Center for Autism$17,50020%
American Heart Association Inc$16,00020%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$10,50070%
Photo Safe Inc$10,0002n/a
The Frick Collection$8,50060%
Community of the Holy Spirit$8,0009n/a
House of the Redeemer$8,00070%
Pleasant Valley Free Library$8,00011%
The Decorative Arts Trust$7,50030%
Claudio Cares Foundation Inc$7,000244%
Yale University$6,0006n/a
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy Inc$6,00060%
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc$6,00040%
The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc$5,75070%
Jewish Federation of Dutchess Count$5,00011%
The American Austrian Foundation Inc$5,00010%
The Trustees of the Smith College$5,00010%
Living Church Foundation Inc$4,50030%
Decorative Arts Society Inc$4,00048%
Whitney Museum of American Art$3,60020%
The Society of Colonial Wars$3,50023%
Shanta Foundation Inc$3,25080%
Buckley Institute Inc$2,50050%
Daniel's Music Foundation$2,50050%
Poets House Inc$2,50050%
Brooklyn Academy of Music Inc$2,00010%
Yale University$2,0002n/a
East Side House Inc$2,00010%
The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital$1,00010%
Yale University$1,0001n/a
Stuyvesant Cove Park Association Inc$1,0001n/a
Death of Classical Inc$50010%
Calvin Hill Day Care Center Inc$50010%
Juilliard School$50010%
National Breast Cancer Foundation Inc$50010%
The Brady Hunter Foundation Inc$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Bg Charitable Foundation: $685,000 over 5y, 100% of budgetDutchess Community College Foundation Inc: $530,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetVassar Brothers Medical Center: $225,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $163,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDutchess County Spca Inc: $127,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetMidwest Food Bank Nfp: $124,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Children Foundation Inc: $123,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $122,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $115,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Florida Inc: $113,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Colony Foundation: $106,000 over 5y, 83% of budgetNational Military Family Association: $100,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetThe Conservancy of Southwest Florida: $84,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHyde Park Food Pantry Inc: $82,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetAbilities First Inc: $77,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Oklahoma Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Poughkeepsie-Highland Railroad: $75,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEpilepsy Florida Inc: $67,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFamily Services of Westchester Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBeatrix Farrand Garden Assoc Inc: $63,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetCary Institute of Ecosystem Studies Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCardinal Hayes Home for Children: $49,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetFund for Park Avenue New York Inc: $33,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDay One of New York Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPriory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hosp / St John of Jerusalem: $24,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Society of the Cincinnati: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe New Deal Creative Arts Center Inc: $17,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetAnderson Center for Autism: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHouse of the Redeemer: $8,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPleasant Valley Free Library: $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Decorative Arts Trust: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetClaudio Cares Foundation Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetFour Freedoms Park Conservancy Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc: $5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Federation of Dutchess Count: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe American Austrian Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Church Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDecorative Arts Society Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Society of Colonial Wars: $3,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetShanta Foundation Inc: $3,250 over 8y, 0.1% 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 58.

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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 Bg Charitable FoundationNY32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bg Charitable Foundation · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Herbert H Redl Family Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Peckham Family Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift 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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About The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP

How much does The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP give?
The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP reported 65 grants totaling $1,525,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Education (16%), Health (15%).
Who are The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Bg Charitable Foundation ($685k), Dutchess Community College Foundation Inc ($530k), North Naples United Methodist Church ($324k).
Does The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP 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 William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bg Charitable Foundation, Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc, The Dyson Foundation.
Where is The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP based?
The William Brown Foundation Inc Co Morrison Cohen LLP is based in NY.

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 125 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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