· Private foundation
Brennan Family Charitable Trust Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN MEDICAL CENTER | $60,000 |
| PINGRY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BRENNAN GIVING FUND | $20,000 |
| VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| CAPTAIN ELIAS GIANGRANDE TREASURE CHEST FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $5,000 |
| VINEYARD GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 35% of Brennan Family Charitable Trust Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 51%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFoundation for Morristown Medical Center3× · 2023–2025 · $220k · revenue +46%
Fairfield University5× · 2018–2022 · $27k · revenue +84%- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- MMMORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $10k
- GSGREATER SOMMERSET COUNTY YMCAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NJNEW JERSEY STATE POLICEMEN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.
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…
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. villa mary immaculate is a member of st. peter's health partners…
The martha's vineyard shellfish group, a non-profit consortium of the shellfish departments of six island towns, provides shellfish propagation services to increase the availability of juvenile commercially valuable molluscan shellfish…
The martha's vineyard community foundation, inc., successor to the permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by making…
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the marjorie doyle rockwell center is a member of st. peter's…
The permanent endowment fund for martha's vineyard, the island's community foundation, puts charitable contributions to work for the people of martha's vineyard by makig grants that address community needs, funding scholarships for island…
Chatham place at mary wade (dba) is an 84 unit assisted living and memory care facility which provides high quality services which seek to maximize residents dignity and vitality.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Dmr Family Foundation Inc · The Stanton Family Foundation · Glff Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brennan Family Charitable Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brennan Family Charitable Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nourishnj Inc: 27% of income from government
- Somerset County Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 22% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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