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Vaughan W 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 43
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$894k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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 arriving24$38k8%
FY202428$51k18%
FY202327$40k4%
FY202243$49k21%
FY202129$40k28%
FY202024$35k13%
FY201924$38k29%
FY201841$52k46%
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What it funded, over time

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

Animals$94kEducation$93kHealth$53kArts & Culture$36kEnvironment$27kHuman Services$26kReligion$21kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ID
MT
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
DC
GA
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.

Show all 75 grantees
All grantees of Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eastside College Preparatory School Inc$50,00090%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$20,50090%
Atlanta International School$15,00090%
The Wildlife Center of Virginia$14,50080%
Hope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc$13,50081%
Windhorse Equine Learning$10,50033%
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc$10,50080%
Atlanta Speech School Inc$10,50090%
Georgia Conservancy Inc$10,00090%
Atlanta Historical Society Inc$9,50090%
Big Life Foundation USA$9,50070%
Artists in Middleburg$8,50061%
Animal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane$8,00090%
Cardigan Mountain School$7,50060%
Friends of the Patapsco Female Inst$7,2002n/a
Albemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc$7,00060%
Wild Love Preserve$6,50061%
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society$6,50040%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$6,50050%
Cottonwood Day School$6,00020%
Virginia Historical Society$6,00070%
Southeast Llama Rescue$5,75064%
Ocean Conservancy$5,00020%
Warrior for Life Fund$4,50030%
4 Paws Rescue Team Inc$4,50050%
Thrive Inc$4,25040%
Eagle Mount$4,00030%
The Great Escape Inc$3,85032%
Haven$3,50030%
The Nemours Foundation$3,50020%
Jorge Pastore Foundation$2,50014%
Spikes K9 Fund$2,50010%
Whole Child Inc$2,5001n/a
Neigh Savers Foundation Inc$2,50041%
Heroes and Horses Inc$2,50030%
Police Activities League of Austin$2,5002n/a
Dec My Room Inc$2,50020%
Preservation Howard County Inc$2,3002n/a
The Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Inc$2,00023%
The Traveling School$2,00010%
Paws Atlanta Incorporated$2,00010%
One Summit Inc$2,00010%
International Neighbors Inc$1,75020%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$1,70020%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc$1,50010%
The Lisbon Volunteer Fire Company$1,50020%
Reach Inc$1,50020%
The Trustees of Reservations$1,50020%
Shepherd Center Inc$1,50020%
New Hope Inc$1,50010%
Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc$1,50010%
Meals on Wheels of Central Marylandinc$1,50020%
Montana Raptor Conservation Center Inc$1,50030%
Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program Inc$1,50010%
Warriors & Quiet Waters Foundation Inc$1,40020%
Blaine County Hunger Coalition Inc$1,00020%
Colorado Horse Rescue$1,00010%
The Loomis Institute D/B/A the Loomis Chaffee School$1,00010%
Horses and Humans Research Foundation$1,00011%
Gallatin Valley Back Country Horsemen$1,0002n/a
Healing Warriors Program$1,00010%
Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center$1,00010%
Lilys Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary$1,00010%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Colorado$1,00010%
Howard County Antique Farm Machinery Club Inc$70011%
Howard County Historical Society Inc$7001n/a
Service Dogs of Virginia Inc$50010%
Owl Research Institute Inc$50010%
LightWell Foundation$50011%
Bear Hug Cattle Co$50011%
Spot Sun Valley Inc$50010%
Blaine County Seniors Council Inc the Senior Connection$50010%
Pets Bring Joy$50010%
National Parks Conservation Association$25010%
Maryland Zoological Society Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEastside College Preparatory School Inc: $50,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $20,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta International School: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wildlife Center of Virginia: $14,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHope's Legacy Equine Rescue Inc: $13,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWindhorse Equine Learning: $10,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetThe David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust USA Inc: $10,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Conservancy Inc: $10,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAtlanta Historical Society Inc: $9,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBig Life Foundation USA: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetArtists in Middleburg: $8,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAnimal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane: $8,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCardigan Mountain School: $7,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlbemarle Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWild Love Preserve: $6,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSea Shepherd Conservation Society: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCottonwood Day School: $6,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVirginia Historical Society: $6,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Llama Rescue: $5,750 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWarrior for Life Fund: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budget4 Paws Rescue Team Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThrive Inc: $4,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEagle Mount: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Great Escape Inc: $3,850 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHaven: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nemours Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJorge Pastore Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSpikes K9 Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNeigh Savers Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHeroes and Horses Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDec My Room Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Nanticoke Historic Preservation Alliance Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetThe Traveling School: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPaws Atlanta Incorporated: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Summit Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Neighbors Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lisbon Volunteer Fire Company: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetReach Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShepherd Center Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hope Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWindrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMeals on Wheels of Central Marylandinc: $1,500 over 2y, 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 69.

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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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Gilhousen Family Foundation · The J & E Berkley Foundation · Caplin Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Charles Fund Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust · One Valley Community Foundation · Robert a Waller Foundation · The Oak Hill 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 Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation

How much does Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation give?
Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (24%), Education (24%), Health (13%).
Who are Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Eastside College Preparatory School Inc ($50k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($21k), Atlanta International School ($15k).
Does Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Vaughan W 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 Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Gilhousen Family Foundation, The J & E Berkley Foundation.
Where is Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation based?
Vaughan W Brown Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 82 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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