· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SOUTHERN MAINE AGENCY ON AGING | $5,000 |
| ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND | $5,000 |
| EMPATH | $5,000 |
| FOOD ALLERGY AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HILARITY FOR CHARITY | $5,000 |
| PROJECT GRACE | $5,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SAINT GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CAMP KETCHA | $5,000 |
| STAND UP TO CANCER | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +50% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- HHHEADING HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +273%
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.
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…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 59 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.
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG STORYTELLERS ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds HILARITY FOR CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL REFUGE LEAGUE OF GREATER PORTLAND ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GRACE ↗
- Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging ↗
- 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 Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Ketcha Outdoors ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- 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 DETROIT CREATIVITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COALITION OF MAINE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brickbottom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brickbottom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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