Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation Grants

• Locality - Funds must benefit Louisiana and Mississippi only, with primary interest in the Greater New Orleans Areand the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
• Five main areas of grant making:
  • Health and Science
  • Community Benefit
  • Human Services
  • Religion and Education
  • Conservation and Environment;
  • The Arts
• Within the above five areas, the focus is primarily on alleviating human suffering, secondary interest includes cultural, spiritual, educational, or scientific initiatives.
• While the merit of a request is primary, favor occurs where volunteers are utilized, the ratio of administrativeexpense to charitable giving is low, the grant will eventually benefit many people and the grant will have not onlya favorable impact on the area and people served, but also the entire community.
• We favor requests for funds where funds are generally unavailable from most other sources.
• Grants for medical research and housing will be generally structured as a program related investments.
• We will not approve:
  • Brick and mortar grants; computer systems; equipment; vehicles; videos.
  • Contributions to endowments, building funds or large community wide capital drives.
  • Multi-year Grants (additional years at our option for PRI's).
  • Indirect grants to intermediary institutions.
  • Grants to offset budget mandated cutbacks.
  • Institutional indirect (overhead) costs added to proposals.
  • Grants to organizations less than three years old.

The Brown Foundation Center
320 Hammond Highway
Suite 500
Metairie, LA 70005
(504) 834-3433

If you have any questions, please email:
BethBuscher@thebrownfoundation.org or MaryCalabrese@thebrownfoundation.org