Dana Brown Charitable Trust Grant

Dana Brown Charitable Trust Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: Dana Brown Charitable Trust
Last Updated: March 19, 2026

Summary

The Dana Brown Charitable Trust Grant supports organizations in the St. Louis area that aid financially disadvantaged children, focusing on health, education, and welfare. It encourages programs that expand children's knowledge of nature and wild animals. The Trust favors collaborative, high-impact projects and prioritizes immediate needs over long-term funding. Notably, individual grants are not awarded directly to individuals, and only one Letter of Intent is permitted per year.

Overview

Rules and Regulations The primary purpose of Dana Brown Charitable Trust is to provide grants to organizations in the St. Louis area that support financially disadvantaged children (up to age 18) and programs that enable children to expand their knowledge of the world and nature through programs featuring wild animals in the St. Louis, Missouri, Metropolitan area (MSA). Your grant request will be required to satisfy the above expectations. Specifically: Your funding request must directly positively impact the health, education, and welfare of underprivileged/economically disadvantaged children and/or support programs that enable children to expand their knowledge of the world and nature through programs featuring wild animals and/or zoology.Secondarily, for animals, the Dana Brown Charitable Trust will continue to consider grant requests for programs with animals that provide services and resources for financially disadvantaged children, focusing on mental health, support, and community building.Your funding request must be allocated to organizations in the St. Louis, Missouri—Illinois Metro Area. Visit our Frequently Asked Questions section to see which counties this includes. Additionally, The Dana Brown Charitable Trust is focused on high-impact, low-risk funding and places high importance on those organizations that work collaboratively with other nonprofits.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. The Dana Brown Charitable Trust is not an operating charitable foundation. Its purpose is to disburse funds to public charities that are presently recognized as qualified 501(c)(3) organizations for the accomplishment of the Trust’s outlined and directed charitable purposes.Multi-year grants will be limited based on the original Dana Brown Trust document, and the fulfillment of immediate needs will generally be preferred over long-term possibilities.Regardless of whether or not your organization receives a grant from the Dana Brown Charitable Trust, you can only submit one Letter of Intent per year. That means if you submit a Letter of Intent for the Spring 2024 grant cycle, you cannot submit another Letter of Intent until Spring 2025.Additionally, suppose you are invited to submit a full grant application, regardless of whether or not you receive funding. In that case, you can still not submit a new Letter of Intent until the following yearFinally, if you do receive funding from The Dana Brown Charitable Trust, you may not submit a new Letter of Intent until a full year after you’ve received your final grant-payment from The Dana Brown Charitable Trust.

Ineligibility

Grants will not be made directly to individuals. In addition, the DBCT Grant Review Committee may wish to make grants directly to the charitable organizations that will utilize the funds and, therefore, generally will not consider requests from Supporting Organizations. Grants will not be awarded for feasibility studies.