Total Assets: $128,679,364
Total Giving: $3,173,658
Louisiana Mississippi
Program-Related Investment, Service Learning Program
The following grants were reported in 2007:
$525,000 to SPCA – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. For General operational support, payable over 1 year.
$450,618 to Brown Foundation – Service Learning Program, General operational support for payable over 1 year.
$200,000 to National World War Ii Museum, Houston, TX. For Special exhibits gallery, payable over 1 year.
$150,000 to Salk Institute For Biological Studies, Cancer related research for payable over 1 year.
$102,500 to Preservation Resource Center, New York, NY. For General operational support, payable over 1 year.
$100,000 to New Orleans Reserve Police Found, New Orleans, LA. For Equipment & supplies for NOPD reserves, payable over 1 year.
$100,000 to Second Harvest Food Bank – Greater New Orleans, New Orleans, LA. For 5A Day The Head Start Way, payable over 1 year.
$65,000 to Governor’s Program For Gifted Children, General operational support for payable over 1 year.
$60,000 to Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, New Orleans, LA. For General operational support, payable over 1 year.
$52,000 to Make A Wish Foundation, General operational support for payable over 1 year.
Giving limited to southern LA and the New Orleans area, and the Gulf Coast of MS.
No support for organizations that are less than 3 years old, or for indirect grants to intermediary institutions, or institutional indirect (overhead) costs, public/charter or private schools grades K-12, or local chapters of national organizations.
No grants for equipment, vehicles, videos, computer systems, endowments, building funds, large community-wide capital drives, or multi-year grants, (additional years at the foundation’s option for PRIs).
Giving primarily to fund medical research, housing for the homeless, organizations that care for the sick, hungry or helpless, religious and educational institutions, and organizations and groups that are concerned with improving the foundation’s local community.
Type of Grantmaker: Independent foundation
Established in 1959 in LA.
Louisiana Mississippi
Phone: (504) 834-3433
Email: BethBuscher@thebrown…
Address:
c/o The Brown Foundation Center
320 Hammond Hwy., Ste. 500
Metairie, LA 70005-5100
Procedure:
The foundation has discontinued awarding new scholarships to individuals. Application form and guidelines are available on foundation web site. All applications must be received at least 3 months before funds are required. Application form required. Applicants should submit the following:
1. Qualifications of key personnel
2. Copy of IRS Determination Letter
3. Copy of most recent annual report/audited financial statement/990
4. Listing of board of directors, trustees, officers and other key people and their affiliations
Initial approach: Proposal
Copies of proposal: 1
Board meeting date(s): On Fridays mid-monthly
Deadline(s): Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30
Final notification: 1-2 months
Donors:
Joe W. Brown
Dorothy Dorsett Brown
Officers and Trustees:
D.P. Spencer, President
B.G. Spencer, Vice President
D.B. Spencer, Vice President
E.K. Hunter, Secretary
B.M. Estopinal, Treasurer
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