Massachusetts · Community foundation
Brookline Community Foundation Inc
The brookline community foundation creates opportunity and promotes equity through the transformative power of giving.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $545,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 28
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Brookline Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $1.6M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.0M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.1M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $993k | 32% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $573k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $612k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $474k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Brookline | $1,564,524 | 8 | n/a |
| Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center | $1,498,163 | 8 | 3% |
| Brookline Teen Center | $730,011 | 8 | 37% |
| Brookline Housing Authority | $610,100 | 8 | n/a |
| Steps to Success Inc | $566,285 | 8 | 11% |
| Fii - National | $545,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Brookline Improvement Coalition Inc | $282,673 | 4 | 25% |
| Brookline Food Pantry Inc | $249,235 | 8 | 7% |
| Women Thriving Inc | $119,868 | 5 | 36% |
| Brookline Early Education Program Parent-Teacher Organization | $107,214 | 7 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Brookline Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Brookline Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Brookline Community Foundation Inc give?
- Brookline Community Foundation Inc reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,552,725, out of $1,591,415 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Brookline Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Health (21%), Housing & Shelter (20%).
- Who are Brookline Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Town of Brookline ($1.6M), Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center ($1.5M), Brookline Teen Center ($730k).
- Does Brookline Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brookline Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Brookline Community Foundation Inc based?
- Brookline Community Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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