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Berry Drew Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$995k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$401k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.3MArts & Culture$797kEducation$375kPhilanthropy$250kFood & Nutrition$131kHuman Services$102kEnvironment$59kAnimals$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $555k
  • $250k+1 grant · $401k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$401,000
EMERSON HOSPITAL$200,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$200,000
COMMUNITY SERVINGS$55,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$50,000
NATURERX MEDIA FOUNDATION$50,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$10,000
BEAR SPOT FOUNDATION$9,200
KICKS FOR CANCER (FRIENDS OF CONCORD CARLISLE)$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$4,130
THE TREVOR PROJECT$4,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,500
RICHMOND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$2,500
NEW ENGLAND DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%HUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $55k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $25k → 16%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION: $750 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $750 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 9 repeat orgs$499k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
22

Total granted

$2.4M
$489k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+3%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $790k · revenue +22%
  • EH
    EMERSON HOSPITAL
    2× · 2024–2025 · $400k · revenue +6%
  • COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC
    5× · 2018–2025 · $131k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • TS
    THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF CONCORD AND CARLISLE
    one grant, 2022 · $104k · revenue -16%
  • DA
    Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +9%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

D-HH operates to establish, manage, govern, and fundraise for an integrated healthcare delivery System. To that end, D-HH is particularly focused to: - Manage the healthcare System to provide services to the public in the most…

Health
7
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
8
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
11
Emerson Health System Inc

Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…

Health
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 35 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $906,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCEMERSON HOSPITAL: $400,000 · HealthEMERSON HOSPITAL+4 more: $12,350 · HealthBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $790,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN…+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH: $250,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DART…NATURERX MEDIA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherNATURERX MEDIA F…BEAR SPOT FOUNDATION: $51,125 · OtherBEAR SPOT FOUNDA…+15 more: $57,068 · Other+15 moreTrustees of Dartmouth College: $270,000 · EducationTrustees of D…THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF CONCORD AND CARLISLE: $104,000 · EducationTHE SCHOLARSH…COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $130,750 · Human ServicesHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human Services+1 more: $750 · Human ServicesDrylands Agroecology Research Foundation: $50,000 · Food & NutritionLINCOLN YOUTH SOCCER INC: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Health$1,318,350Arts & Culture$792,000Other$458,193Education$374,000Human Services$146,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Recreation & Sports$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $906,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $790,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $270,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $130,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF CONCORD AND CARLISLE: $104,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetDrylands Agroecology Research Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetLINCOLN YOUTH SOCCER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetHUNDRED NIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $9,273 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DRESSAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLAAD INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends For Tomorrow Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Berry Drew Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Berry Drew Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Community Health Programs Incorporated: 13% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Festival Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Emerson Hospital: 3% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Berry Drew Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Berry Drew Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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