· Private foundation
Ann & Bill Brine Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
88% of Ann & Bill Brine Family Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Martha'S Vineyard Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Ann & Bill Brine Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $35k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k21 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER | $8,750 |
| SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION | $3,750 |
| DISMAS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $1,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| GOOD NEIGHBOR HEALTH CLINICS | $500 |
| COVER | $500 |
| WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES | $500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - NEW HAMPSHIRE | $500 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL INFUSION CLINIC | $350 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EDGARTOWN COUNCIL ON AGING | $300 |
| FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $250 |
| MANHATTANVILLE COLLEGE | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER6× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +78%
- SMSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2022 · $17k · revenue +311%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM INC3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +485%
Funded once
- SSST SEBASTIANS SCHOOL INCone grant, 2018 · $1k
- CSCANTERBURY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +82%
- FRFAMILY REACH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +98%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Cvph medical center's mission is to provide quality health care for the north country region in upstate new york.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The martha's vineyard agricultural society supports a resilient and sustainable agricultural community on martha's vineyard. we do this by:- offering services, education, marketing, and technical support for farmers and farmworkers on the…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheriff's Meadow Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 59 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPPAQUIDDICK COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MEDIATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Navigator Homes of Marthas Vineyard ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds LISTEN Lebanon in Service to Each Neighbor ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
- Who funds POLLY HILL ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation Inc · Schon Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Lubbe Family Foundation · Robert Miller & Catherine Miller Charitable Foundation · The Help for People Foundation · Barrette Family Fund · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ann & Bill Brine Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Martha's Vineyard Mediation Program Inc — 71% of income from government
- The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Navigator Homes of Marthas Vineyard — 28% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Cambridge College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.