The Brown Foundation is seeking applications for its grant program to build, sustain, and enhance organizations that make Houston a stronger, more vibrant community.
Donor Name: The Brown Foundation
State: Texas
City: Houston
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 05/31/2023
Details:
The aim of the foundation is to support organizations dedicated to ambitious goals, excellence, and exceptional impact.
Historically and today, education and the arts are the Foundation’s top grantmaking priorities. They also support organizations within human services; health and medicine; conservation and land protection; parks and urban green space; civic assets; and more.
Program Areas
The Foundation considers submissions from a broad range of organizations. Organizations have the ability to self-select a program area in their application system.
Types of Requests
The Foundation reviews requests for general operating funds; program support; and capital campaigns/projects. For capital requests, additional documentation is required.
Geographic Focus
The Foundation primarily makes grants in Houston and the surrounding areas. As a family directed foundation, they selectively make grants across Texas and in other parts of the country. They rarely approve unsolicited applications from beyond the greater Houston area.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for a grant from The Brown Foundation, Inc. your organization must be a tax-exempt charitable organization, as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The Foundation does not make grants
- Individuals
- Individual scholarship funds
- Endowments or endowment campaigns
- Debt retirement or to cover past operating deficits
- Any type of fundraising and/or marketing event
- Any type of activity intended to support candidates for political office or influence legislation
- Religious or doctrinal purposes, although faith-based organizations may apply for support for educational or social service programs
For more information, visit The Brown Foundation.
