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Brigham Hill Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$265kEnvironment$191kEducation$120kPhilanthropy$102kFood & Nutrition$60kHuman Services$21kHealth$20kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$286k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC$3,000
GRAFTON ARTS$3,000
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM$2,500
AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY$2,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$2,000
UMASS MEMORIAL$2,000
COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT$1,500
NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,500
WGBH$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT: $40k → 11%ST JOHN PAUL ACADEMY: $10k → 16%ST PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $10k → 14%WILLARD CLOCK MUSEUM: $27k → 11%ST JOHN PAUL ACADEMY: $10k → 16%DAVID BENET FUND MT AUBURN CEMETARY: $10k → 8%WILLARD CLOCK MUSEUM: $13k → 11%DANA FARBER: $6k → 16%COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT: $10k → 11%GRAFTON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5k → 11%GRAFTON ARTS: $3k → 11%HARVARD LAMPOON: $78k → 8%HARVARD LAMPOON: $10k → 8%HARVARD LAMPOON: $5k → 8%HARVARD LAMPOON: $5k → 8%ST ANTHONY'S SHRINE: $4k → 16%UNITED WAY: $23k → 11%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $23k → 11%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $23k → 11%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $23k → 11%MUSIC WORCESTER: $5k → 11%MUSIC WORCESTER: $3k → 11%BLACKSTONE HERITAGE: $26k → 11%BLACKSTONE HERITAGE: $15k → 11%GRAFTON LAND TRUST: $13k → 11%APPLE TREE ARTS: $12k → 11%APPLE TREE ARTS: $10k → 11%APPLE TREE ARTS: $7k → 11%APPLE TREE ARTS: $5k → 11%WORCESTER ACADEMY: $30k → 11%WORCESTER ACADEMY: $20k → 11%MA AUDOBON: $11k → 11%WORCESTER ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WORCESTER ACADEMY: $10k → 11%WORCESTER ACADEMY: $10k → 11%YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 11%AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $13k → 11%WORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $6k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN: $51k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN: $28k → 11%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $25k → 11%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $12k → 11%NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN: $10k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN: $10k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN: $7k → 11%WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $5k → 11%TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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ID
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
MD
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$784k · 44 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
22

Total granted

$784k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+74%

Still filing today

55%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HL
    HARVARD LAMPOON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $106k · revenue +269% · 33% of their budget
  • WA
    WORCESTER ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +28%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $71k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2017 · $23k
  • DB
    DAVID BENET FUND MT AUBURN CEMETARY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • YO
    YMCA OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
2
Wheaton College

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…

Education
3
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Western New England University

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…

Education
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
7
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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10
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
11
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Worcester Land Trust; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN: $111,000 · OtherTOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDENUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $70,500 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INCNEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN: $48,200 · OtherNEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDENWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $40,800 · OtherWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INCIndividual grant recipient: $40,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNITED WAY: $22,500 · OtherST JOHN PAUL ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $19,950 · Other+37 more: $109,350 · Other+37 moreHARVARD LAMPOON INC: $105,500 · Arts & CultureHARVARD LAMPOON INCApple Tree Arts Inc: $37,140 · Arts & CultureApple Tree Arts IncMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $12,972 · Arts & CultureMUSIC WORCESTER INCWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $12,500 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $8,100 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $5,695 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ACADEMY: $80,100 · EducationWORCESTER ACAD…AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $26,000 · EducationAMERICAN ANTIQ…+4 more: $2,775 · EducationCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $57,500 · Food & NutritionGRAFTON LAND TRUST INC: $21,000 · EnvironmentWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,500 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 · Environment+7 more: $2,447 · EnvironmentVNA Care Network Inc: $1,800 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $500 · Health
Other$482,800Arts & Culture$181,907Education$108,875Food & Nutrition$57,500Environment$31,447Health$2,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARVARD LAMPOON INC: $105,500 over 8y, 33% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $80,100 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $70,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $57,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetWILLARD HOUSE & CLOCK MUSEUM INC: $40,800 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetApple Tree Arts Inc: $37,140 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $26,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGRAFTON LAND TRUST INC: $21,000 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetMUSIC WORCESTER INC: $12,972 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $8,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrafton Arts Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Care Network Inc: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,032 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRAFTON ELDERS INC: $550 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD MAGAZINE INC: $495 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $370 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $320 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GARDEN CLUB OF AMERICA: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForest Society of Maine: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WORCESTER LAND TRUST: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

The Fred Harris Danie…Greater Worcester Com…Ruth H & Warren a Ell…The Fletcher Foundati…Stoddard Charitable T…The George I Alden Tr…Judy and Tony King Fo…Hoche-Scofield Founda…Wyman GordonMildred H McEvoy Foun…Webster Five Foundati…Schwartz Charitable F…
The Fred Harris Daniels FoundationMA26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brigham Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brigham Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Brigham Hill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brigham Hill Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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