Arizona · Public charity
Thomas R Brown Family Foundation
The Thomas R Brown Family Foundation promotes, encourages, and aids the East Texas Communities Foundation in their charitable, scientific, qualified religious and educational activities.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2022
- 12
- Grants FY2022
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 1
- Total assets, FY2022
- $417k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 36% of the organizations Thomas R Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 11 | $3.9M | 36% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $3.6M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $840k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $1.5M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $1.8M | 55% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Arizona Foundation | $4,667,728 | 6 | 1% |
| Thomas R Brown Foundation | $4,000,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pima Community College Foundation Inc | $2,555,000 | 2 | 48% |
| Flinn Foundation | $1,144,635 | 6 | 3% |
| Pima County School Superintnd | $391,211 | 4 | n/a |
| Literacy Connects | $225,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Startup Tucson | $195,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Southern AZ Research Science & Eng FDN | $195,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Live the Solution Dba Earn to Learn | $151,000 | 1 | 15% |
| YWCA of Southern Arizona | $125,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Thomas R Brown Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Absolon Foundation · Marshall Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Helios Education Foundation · Burton Family Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona · Jewish Community Foundation of Southern Arizona · The Stocker Foundation
How this is measured
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About Thomas R Brown Family Foundation
- How much does Thomas R Brown Family Foundation give?
- Thomas R Brown Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $3,982,194 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Thomas R Brown Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (52%), Philanthropy (40%), Science & Tech (2%).
- Who are Thomas R Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: University of Arizona Foundation ($4.7M), Thomas R Brown Foundation ($4.0M), Pima Community College Foundation Inc ($2.6M).
- Does Thomas R Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas R Brown Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southern Arizona, Absolon Foundation, Marshall Foundation.
- Where is Thomas R Brown Family Foundation based?
- Thomas R Brown Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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