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Broadbent Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$618kEnvironment$568kArts & Culture$150kAnimals$127kHealth$44kRecreation & Sports$30kYouth Development$28kInternational$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $290k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$45,000
GREENWICH ACADEMY$40,000
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$40,000
VERO BEACH MUSEUM FOR THE ARTS$25,000
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST$15,000
RIVERSIDE THEATRE$15,000
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH$10,000
ONE PLYMPTON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION$10,000
GREENWICH LAND TRUST$10,000
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD$10,000
CLEVAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FDN$10,000
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%WILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION: $25k → 12%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $25k → 16%PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER: $10k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CHRIST CHURCH: $10k → 13%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $25k → 17%THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PRTNERSHP: $10k → 14%VERO BEACH MUSEUM FOR THE ARTS: $25k → 12%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $50k → 15%GREENWICH LAND TRUST: $25k → 9%ONE PLYMPTON PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%PROSPERITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER: $10k → 10%AMERICANS FOR OXFORD: $10k → 17%VERO BEACH MUSEUM FOR THE ARTS: $25k → 12%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $50k → 15%ROUND HILL NURSERY SCHOOL: $10k → 9%VERO BEACH MUSEUM FOR THE ARTS: $25k → 12%BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST: $25k → 15%GREENWICH LAND TRUST: $10k → 9%RIVERSIDE THEATRE: $15k → 12%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $10k → 17%INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST: $15k → 12%RIVERSIDE THEATRE: $10k → 12%RIVERSIDE THEATRE: $10k → 12%RIVERSIDE THEATRE: $8k → 12%MCKEE GARDENS: $25k → 12%MCKEE GARDENS: $25k → 12%MCKEE GARDENS: $25k → 12%MCKEE GARDENS: $20k → 12%MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10k → 12%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $75k → 9%MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $10k → 12%GREENWICH ACADEMY: $75k → 9%INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST: $50k → 12%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $50k → 9%INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST: $25k → 12%GREENWICH ACADEMY: $50k → 9%INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST: $25k → 12%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $45k → 9%INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST: $20k → 12%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $40k → 9%INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST: $10k → 12%GREENWICH ACADEMY: $40k → 9%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $20k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $10k → 9%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $10k → 9%BRUNSWICK SCHOOL: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 23 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
19

Total granted

$1.5M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • BS
    BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +39%
  • TM
    THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +248%
  • GA
    GREENWICH ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $170k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • HU
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY FRIENDS AND FELLOWS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • PA
    PROSPERITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TR
    THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +60%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
2
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
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

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.

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6
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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7
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
8
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
9
Wetlands America Trust Inc

Wetlands america trust, inc. is a nonprofit organization formed in 1985 to expand ducks unlimited, inc's mission to provide leadership in the protection of the natural balance of wetlands ecosystems ensuring the future viability of…

Environment
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Diamond Sage Grouse Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsCommunity Arts OrganizationsYouth Development CentersEarly Childhood Education C…Community FoundationsCancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Environmental Advocacy Orga…Land Conservation Organizat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%47%35–55yr16%38%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,530

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $180,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCEINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $145,000 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INCMontana Environmental Information Center — $75,000 · EnvironmentMontana Environmental Information Ce…THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $55,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INCWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION — $35,000 · EnvironmentWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATIONMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $20,000 · Environment+2 more — $13,040 · EnvironmentBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $250,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $170,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INCAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $60,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC+6 more — $35,000 · Education+6 moreMCKEE GARDENS — $95,000 · OtherMCKEE GARDENSVERO BEACH MUSEUM FOR THE ARTS — $75,000 · OtherVERO BEACH MUSEUM FOR T…CLEVAND CLINIC INDIAN RIVER FDN — $35,000 · OtherCLEVAND CLINIC INDIAN R…HARVARD UNIVERSITY FRIENDS AND FELLOWS — $25,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY FRIE…ROUND HILL NURSERY SCHOOL INC — $22,700 · OtherROUND HILL NURSERY SCHO…PROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $15,000 · Other+19 more — $73,500 · Other+19 moreBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $125,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH …THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE …+2 more — $2,000 · AnimalsRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $43,000 · Arts & CultureOne Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $20,000 · International
Environment$523,040Education$515,000Other$341,200Animals$137,000Arts & Culture$53,000Youth Development$25,000International$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $180,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC — $170,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $145,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $125,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMontana Environmental Information Center — $75,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC — $55,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetRIVERSIDE THEATRE INC — $43,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN RURAL LANDS FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROUND HILL NURSERY SCHOOL INC — $22,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROPERTY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH CENTER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOne Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Friends of Christ Church Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $4,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES COURT TENNIS PRESERVATION FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER AND PLAINS SOCIETY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN PLAINS RESOURCE COUNCIL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDiamond Sage Grouse Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Henry E & Consuelo S …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation IncMI13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Henry E & Consuelo S Wenger Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Broadbent Family Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Broadbent Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Broadbent Family Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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