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Britten Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$27,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$32,265
Organizations funded a year
5 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Britten Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$160k14%
FY20245$10k40%
FY202313$20k46%
FY202210$19k20%
FY202110$15k30%
FY20209$18k11%
FY20199$17k0%
FY201815$32k47%
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$126kEnvironment$71kReligion$67kHealth$21kArts & Culture$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kEducation$2kHuman Services$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
United States Catholic Conference$55,7659n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$35,75060%
Boykin Spaniel Rescue Inc$34,00026%
Delaware Riverkeeper Network$20,25060%
Houston Zoo Inc$16,00080%
The Seeing Eye Inc$16,00010%
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$9,00060%
All 4 Paws Rescue$5,00050%
Quakertown Fire Co Inc$4,5002n/a
Hunterdon Art Museum$2,25020%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($99k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Britten Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $35,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoykin Spaniel Rescue Inc: $34,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetDelaware Riverkeeper Network: $20,250 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHouston Zoo Inc: $16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNaples Botanical Garden Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAll 4 Paws Rescue: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHunterdon Art Museum: $2,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLitchfield Beautification Foundation: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Oscar Hammerstein Museum and Theatre Education Center: $1,250 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Educational Innovation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Amendments for the Generations: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFlorida Keys Educational Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Jersey: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQuakertown Volunteer Emergency Medical Service Inc(Bankrupt)C/O Des Esq Ttee: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBelle W Baruch Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBideawee Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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 Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Britten Fund

How much does Britten Fund give?
Britten Fund reported 7 grants totaling $160,265 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Britten Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (41%), Environment (23%), Religion (22%).
Who are Britten Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United States Catholic Conference ($56k), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($36k), Boykin Spaniel Rescue Inc ($34k).
Does Britten Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Britten Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Britten Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Britten Fund based?
Britten Fund is based in NJ.

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 34 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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