Kentucky · Private foundation
W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation
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.
- $4.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2024
- 82
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,466,836
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 82
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $656k 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 | 62 | $4.7M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 82 | $4.1M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $4.7M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 70 | $5.8M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 76 | $6.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $5,420,601 | 5 | 0% |
| The Frick Collection | $1,871,028 | 5 | 2% |
| Storm King Art Center | $1,560,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $1,000,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Teton County Search & Rescue Foundation | $670,000 | 4 | 12% |
| The Amazon Biodiversity Center | $602,576 | 4 | 25% |
| Norton Museum of Art Inc | $466,328 | 5 | 2% |
| Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
| 564 Park Avenue Preservation Foundation | $300,000 | 5 | 13% |
| Grand Teton National Park Foundation | $277,500 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 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 · Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc · Trippe Fund Inc · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Fairfield Foundation · The Willinphila Foundation · The McCance Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Jeanann Gray Dunlap Foundation · Valley Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation
- How much does W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation give?
- W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $4,806,524 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 82 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (40%), Education (26%), Environment (17%).
- Who are W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($5.4M), The Frick Collection ($1.9M), Storm King Art Center ($1.6M).
- Does W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable 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 W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Ina B Bond Ashbourne Charitable Fund Inc, Trippe Fund Inc.
- Where is W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation based?
- W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation is based in KY.
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