· Private foundation
Brk Family 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 $10k12 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| US-JAPAN BRIDGING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| THE COLLEGE DIABETES NETWORK (DIABETES LINK) | $15,000 |
| HUDSON INSTITUTE INC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $7,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET LAND COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| COX SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM | $5,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $5,000 |
| PALM BEACH DIOCESAN SERVICES APPEAL | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Brk Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 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; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +49%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D3× · 2017–2023 · $118k · revenue +49%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $4k
- GHGREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +2%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hudson Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LAND & WATER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE DIABETES NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET SHELLFISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ISAMU NOGUCHI FOUNDATION AND GARDEN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brk Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brk Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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