Thomas R Brown Family Foundation

Analysis

Thomas R Brown Family Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Tyler, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Thomas R Brown Family Foundation reported income of $417k and spending of $7.4m, spending 1775% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income fell from $2.7m to $417k (-84%), an average of -37% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2023, when income dropped by 86%. Over the whole period it spent 170% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Thomas R Brown Family Foundation sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hope Institute ($416k), National Association of Nigerian Nurses in North America Inc ($417k) and Winged Foot Foundation Inc ($416k).

At year end it held assets of $723k against liabilities of $3,644, net assets of $719k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.