Kentucky · Nonprofit
ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC
ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,851,917 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,851,917). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $617k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Robert L Brown Foundation Inc does
Mission
To support blue grass community foundation, inc.'s mission to create generous, vibrant and engaged communities throughout central and appalachia kentucky, specifically in sharpsburg and bath county, kentucky. In addition, the foundation's activities will support the exempt purposes of other 501(c)(3) organizations in these areas. These activities will serve charitable purposes, including economic development and supporting youth services, each of which supports the economically disadvantaged and combats community deterioration. By performing programming in sharpsburg or making donations to government entities, the foundation will perform the charitable act of lessening the burdens of government, which is particularly beneficial in small towns such as sharpsburg.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To support blue grass community foundation, inc.'s mission to create generous, vibrant and engaged communities throughout central and appalachia kentucky, specifically in sharpsburg and bath county, kentucky. In addition, the foundation's activities will support the exempt purposes of other 501(c)(3) organizations in these areas. These activities will serve charitable purposes, including economic development and supporting youth services, each of which supports the economically disadvantaged and combats community deterioration. By performing programming in sharpsburg or making donations to government entities, the foundation will perform the charitable act of lessening the burdens of government, which is particularly beneficial in small towns such as sharpsburg.furthermore, the foundation's activities serve an educational purpose. The foundation may make grants to organizations or government entities to support various types of education. Additionally, the foundation may fund scholarships to deserving high school graduates of bath county high school to pursue further education.
$276,268 spentof which $35,281 as grants$1,075 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $276,268.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $607k to $1.1M (+87%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Alice Hilton
Executive director
Board chair
Lisa Adkins
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC?
- ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,851,917 to it, the largest being BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,851,917). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,851,917 in grants to ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC?
- BLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,851,917 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROBERT L BROWN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing