Funder Standing / James Graham Brown Foundation Inc

James Graham Brown Foundation Inc

KY · EIN 610724060 · 100M+ · data as of FY2024
Adds new grantees regularly

18 of 45 organizations James Graham Brown Foundation Inc funded in FY2024 had not been funded in the prior 3 years.

Across all compared years the rate is 39.6%. Foundations of a similar size sit at 31.9%.

The numbers

New-grantee rate
39.6%
Pooled across compared years
Median grant
$200,000
Range $450 – $1,500,000
Repeat-dollar share
61.0%
Dollars to prior-year grantees
Accepts unsolicited
Yes
Inferred from the filing — see below
Match rate
100.0%
Grant lines resolved to an organization
Filing years used
5
Consecutive returns on file

Who they funded in FY2024

RecipientAmount
RITA JUNE FOUNDATIONnew$1,500,000
KENTUCKY DERBY MUSEUMnew$1,025,000
KENTUCKY COUNCIL ON POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION$1,000,000
CENTRE COLLEGE$979,303
FEDERATION OF APPALACHIAN HOUSING ENTERPRISESnew$880,625
LOUISVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONnew$755,000
PARKS ALLIANCE OF LOUISVILLE$750,000
AMPEDnew$750,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$586,286
THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC$575,000
KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC$550,000
AMERICANA COMMUNITY CENTERnew$500,000
YMCA OF GREATER LOUISVILLEnew$500,000
J B SPEED ART MUSEUM$500,000
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KENTUCKY INC$500,000
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION FOUNDATIONnew$500,000
TEACH KENTUCKY INC$350,000
SIMMONS COLLEGE OF KENTUCKY$342,750
FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC$251,100
DELTA FOUNDATION INC$250,000
RIVERSIDE FARNSLEY-MOREMAN LANDING INC$250,000
ART CENTER OF THE BLUEGRASSnew$250,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INCnew$250,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE$205,000
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT EXCELLENCE$200,000

Showing the 25 largest of 45 grants.

How to read this

Every US private foundation files Form 990-PF, and Part XV of that return itemises each grant it paid, with the recipient's name. Lining those lists up across filing years shows which organizations were funded for the first time.

That does work the application checkbox cannot. Whether a foundation says it accepts unsolicited proposals is self-reported and never audited. The grant ledger is behaviour.

What this page does not tell you. Whether your work fits what James Graham Brown Foundation Inc funds — no tax return contains that. Whether anyone on your board already knows a trustee, which is how a great deal of foundation money actually moves. Or anything that has changed since the last filing, which runs twelve to twenty-four months behind.
Source. IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV line 3a (grants paid during the year), tax years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Excludes. Grants approved for future payment, which the return lists separately
Computed. 2026-08-03 · Next recompute. 2026-11-01
Distribution. GivingTuesday Data Lake mirror of the IRS e-file corpus

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