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Brennan Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Brennan Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$450kHealth$75kArts & Culture$42kEmployment$25kHuman Services$10kCrime & Legal$5k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $185k
$185,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$131k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEEFIELD ACADEMY$185,000
BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND: $20k → 7%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $25k → 8%DEEFIELD ACADEMY: $185k → 14%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $10k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $15k → 16%COLORADO COLLEGE: $5k → 9%THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 7%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $5k → 8%DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $150k → 14%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $10k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $10k → 16%COLORADO COLLEGE: $5k → 9%THE PARK SCHOOL: $40k → 7%POCKUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $6k → 14%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $10k → 16%POCKUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL AS: $6k → 14%BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS: $25k → 16%BEACON ACADEMY: $10k → 16%STEPPINGSTONE: $10k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%NEW BEGINNINGS RE-ENTRY SERVICES: $5k → 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.
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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$95k · 4 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$95k
$277k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $210k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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

  • BH
    BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +78%
  • ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +83%
  • TC
    THE COLORADO COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +102%
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • PS
    PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +8%
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
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
4
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
5
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
6
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
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
9
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park School Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $150,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $40,000 · EducationPARK SCHOOL CORPORATIONBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · EducationBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INCTHE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INCTrustees of Hamilton College: $25,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton CollegeBEACON ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationDEEFIELD ACADEMY: $185,000 · OtherDEEFIELD ACADEMYMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL+2 more: $12,000 · OtherBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $25,000 · HealthSTEPPINGSTONE INC: $10,000 · HealthISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$290,000Other$247,000Health$35,000Arts & Culture$30,000Crime & Legal$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOCUMTUCK VALLEY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 IncEastern Bank Foundati…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Brennan Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brennan Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • New Beginnings Reentry Services Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Boston Community Pediatrics Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 15 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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