Massachusetts · Private foundation
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.
- $349k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Brickbottom Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $349k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $263k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $330k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $273k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $235k | 39% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $88k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $325k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $333k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Economic Mobility Pathways Inc | $574,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Young Storytellers | $44,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Stand Up to Cancer | $36,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Hilarity for Charity Inc | $22,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Project Grace | $20,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Southern Maine Agency on Aging | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Eastern Trail Alliance | $17,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Maine Inc | $17,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brickbottom Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Brickbottom Foundation
- How much does Brickbottom Foundation give?
- Brickbottom Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $349,269 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brickbottom Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (41%), Public Benefit (21%), Philanthropy (17%).
- Who are Brickbottom Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Economic Mobility Pathways Inc ($574k), Young Storytellers ($44k), Stand Up to Cancer ($36k).
- Does Brickbottom Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brickbottom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brickbottom Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Narragansett Number One Foundation.
- Where is Brickbottom Foundation based?
- Brickbottom Foundation is based in MA.
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