• The Foundation has proudly awarded $1,209,630 in grants to Bridge House / Grace House. “If it is hard for you to watch someone suffering from addiction, imagine how miserable it must be to live with addiction. Bridge House / Grace House serve a vital role in relieving human suffering and it is our privilege to support their programs” - Ronald Spencer, MD, Brown Foundation Healthcare Program Officer and Trustee.


    For the past several years the Foundation has committed hundreds of thousands of dollars to help Holy Cross create and establish a food science degree program. In September of 2017, the Foundation renewed its commitment to Holy Cross’s food science program and will now assist with the development of the beverage science concentration program.


  • Support for the Atchafalaya Terrebonne Basin is and always has been of crucial importance to the Brown Foundation. The Brown Foundation has proudly awarded grants totaling $220,000 to the Atchafalaya Basinkeeper. Special thanks to @johnchittyimages for the stunning photograph.


    We wish to recognize Patricia Gay who recently retired from the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans and applaud her relentless efforts and achievements in preserving the past for our present and future. Foundation contributions to PRCNO: $1,450,000


  • Second Harvest Food Bank and the Brown Foundation have partnered in the relief of human suffering for many years. Our support for the relentless efforts of Second Harvest have recently eclipsed $1.3 million. Their mission - ending hunger in the Gulf Coast states by providing food access & disaster response – should be admired by all.


    Joe W. Brown identified polio as “the greatest plague of our time” and worked tirelessly to help distribute the vaccine. In the decades that followed, Dorothy Dorsett repeatedly hailed Jonas Edward Salk as a “hero, champion, and miracle worker” and credited him with “saving humanity by solving polio”. Over the past several decades, the Foundation has proudly supported the SALK Institute for Biological Studies’ research initiatives in the amount of $2,573,140.


  • One of Dorothy Dorsett Brown’s favorite charities: The Foundation is proud to have given over $1 million in grants to the Salvation Army in honor of her.




  • Executive Director, Jim Kelly (left) graciously received our Board Chair, David Spencer (right) for a tour and meeting at Covenant House. Foundation contributions: $540,000


  • Our partners at The Nature Conservancy have been champions of our environment for decades. Grants totaling $1.6 million have also been awarded to The Nature Conservancy for their environmental efforts.


    The Foundation introduced service learning to Louisiana. Through our Service Learning Program we have proudly contributed $6,195,922 to our community in Louisiana and Mississippi. Contact our program managers - Tina Bouzon and Jonathan Baynham - for more information.


  • Our President, E.F. Hunter III speaking at the Annual Service Learning Event, held at the Ponchartrain Center 9/12/2017.


    The Foundation is proud to have supported Camp Bon Coeur for children with heart disease in the amount of $350,000 since 1999. The program officers of the Foundation enjoyed their recent summer site visit.


  • The Foundation has given $2.9 million to Tulane University and its affiliated programs over the past two decades. Most recently, we are proud to announce support for The Tulane Cancer Center’s Belancio Laboratory. Victoria Belancio, Ph.D. will work with Emmy Noether Scholars for one year, and teach them how to use bioinformatic tools to analyze human genome sequencing data. Pictured above is Dr. Belancio (left) with Madison Smither (right) at the 2017 Emmy Noether Award Inaugural Event. Dr. Belancio and Madison wrote the grant for the Tulane Cancer Center and were approved in full!


    2017 Emmy Noether Award Scholars


  • Since 2008, the Foundation has contributed $336,500 to Victories In Services, an organization addressing student motivation in the upper-ninth ward by creating an environment where students can experience success and learn skills needed to increase motivation to learn.


    The Foundation is proud to announce a large research grant has been issued to UNO Department of Biological Sciences for the Howard Laboratory; two STEM projects approved to Delgado that will send a team to compete in iGEM in Boston, and a new partnership with Tulane Medical School to reduce the backlog of autism diagnosis in New Orleans from 180 to 30 over a two year period.


  • In honor of the Greatest Generation, the Brown Foundation is proud to announce its contributions to The National WWII Museum totaling $2,956,000.


    E.F. Hunter, President, signing a $900,000 PRI grant in favor of local New Orleans homeless shelter.


  • Since June 2016, an osprey has been regularly seen on the Brown Foundation’s building light fixtures.


    The Foundation partnered with The Nature Conservancy and St. Paul’s Episcopal School to build an osprey nesting platform adjacent to our building. Now we await the great birds to occupy the habitat!


  • 2017 Emmy Noether Award Winner, Hailey Rowbatham


    E.F. Hunter, President, with Ilaria Simeone and Madison Smither, working on the Emmy Noether Award.