Grant Recipient News | Dana Brown Charitable Trust

Ronald McDonald Family Room Opens at St. Louis Children’s Hospital

The Ronald McDonald House Charities of St. Louis opened a brand-new 3,000 square-foot Ronald McDonald Family Room at St. Louis...

Teach For America Welcomes New Corps Members

Teach For America welcomed its incoming corps members to the UMSL campus on May 27 for its annual new teacher...

Get To Know The Biome School

One of the 50 institutions awarded grants in the Fall 2017 Dana Brown Charitable Trust Grant cycle is The Biome...

Announcing Great Circle Academy

Dana Brown loved St. Louis. Although not a native resident, our fair city became his adopted home, the place where...

CHAMP Support Dogs Mission in Action

Meet Payton and her CHAMP Public Access Service Dog, Whitt. They are a part of Dana Brown Charitable Trust funded...

Congrats To The Zoo

We all know Dana Brown and his penchant for safaris, coffee, and storytelling, but not all of us know the...

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Animal Protective Association of Missouri

Mercy Health Foundation

At Mercy, our mission is to bring to life the ...

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Are multi-year grants awarded?

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We are shifting to ONLY fund multi-year grants to organizations in the “always funded” bucket, representing up to 40% of our annual allocation.

The Executive Director and Grant Chair integrated this new policy to provide transparency and communication in response to the 2023 independent legal and organizational review recommendations.

Despite Dana Brown not designating a beneficiary or naming specific organizations to fund, he used explicit language that followed his quiet philanthropy approach during his lifetime.

Due to that guidance in the original trust document, the organizations below will always be considered for annual funding:
• Saint Louis Zoo
• St. Louis Children’s Hospital
• SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital
• Mercy Children’s Hospital St. Louis
• Ranken Jordan Pediatric Bridge Hospital

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