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Brickbottom 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYNN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $250,000 |
| ELEMENT CARE | $10,000 |
| YOUNG STORYTELLERS | $7,500 |
| THE READ PROJECT | $5,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PROJECT GRACE | $5,000 |
| CAMP KETCHA | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING | $5,000 |
| HILARITY FOR CHARITY | $5,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| EMPATH | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| SAINT GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +43% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- EMECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $574k · revenue +50%
- YSYOUNG STORYTELLERS6× · 2018–2025 · $44k · revenue +65%
- HFHILARITY FOR CHARITY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- PRPROJECT READone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TGTHE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +44%
- LSLEUKEMIA SOCEITY LLS-GEORGIAone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Our mission: to end hunger in montana through food acquisition and distribution, education, and advocacy. we are the only statewide hunger organization, providing emergency food and increasing food access among needy children, seniors and…
Project bread integrates expertise earned through directly serving individuals, research, advocacy, and community engagement for a comprehensive approach that achieves large scale, sustainable impact to prevent hunger.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.
The alliance for aging research is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.
Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…
The food bank of western massachusetts' mission is to feed our neighbors in need and lead the community to end hunger. the food bank provides food both directly and through its member food pantries, meal sites, shelters and other social…
Mpha promotes a healthy massachusetts through advocacy, education, community organizing and coalition building. we are leaders in the movement to create health equity by addressing the root causes of health and wellness. we promote…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saco Food Pantry. 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 34 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
37 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. 37 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 ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG STORYTELLERS ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds HILARITY FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GRACE ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds Eastern Trail Alliance ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Ketcha Outdoors ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELEMENT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME 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: Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Narragansett Number One Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · AARP · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment 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 Brickbottom 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.
- Element Care Inc — 40% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Save Ellis Island Inc — 10% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% 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.
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