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Brigham Hill Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k26 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WILLARD CLOCK MUSEUM | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN | $10,000 |
| DANA FARBER | $6,000 |
| WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| GRAFTON ARTS | $3,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC | $3,000 |
| WORCESTER ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL | $2,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,500 |
| COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT | $1,500 |
| WGBH | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
44 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HLHARVARD LAMPOON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +269% · 33% of their budget
- WAWORCESTER ACADEMY6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC4× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $23k
- DBDAVID BENET FUND MT AUBURN CEMETARYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- YOYMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
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.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Willard House & Clock 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.
Your grantees are a median of 63 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 72 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 HARVARD LAMPOON INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Apple Tree Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GRAFTON LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds Grafton Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VNA Care Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
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: The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · The George I Alden Trust · Judy and Tony King Foundation · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Wyman Gordon · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable 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 Brigham Hill 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.
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- Grafton Arts Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Music Worcester Inc — 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Worcester Historical Museum — 5% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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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