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Brookline Community Foundation Inc

The brookline community foundation creates opportunity and promotes equity through the transformative power of giving.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$545k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MHealth$1.7MHousing & Shelter$1.6MYouth Development$1.1MFood & Nutrition$709kArts & Culture$413kHuman Services$270kRecreation & Sports$126kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $1,552,725, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,591,415 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,690 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $552k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $433k
  • $250k+1 grant · $545k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FII-NATIONAL DBA UPTOGETHER$545,000
TOWN OF BROOKLINE FINANCE DEPARTMENT$196,500
BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER$136,000
BROOKLINE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH$100,000
STEPS TO SUCCESS INC$46,000
PUPPET SHOWPLACE THEATER$45,000
BUILDING BRIDGES EDUCATION INC$32,500
TOWN OF BROOKLINEPUBLIC SCHOOLS OF BROOKLINE$31,400
BROOKLINE INTERACTIVE GROUP$30,625
BROOKLINE RECREATION DEPARTMENT$30,000
BROOKLINE HOUSING AUTHORITY$30,000
BROOKLINE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$27,500
TOWN OF BROOKLINEBROOKLINE ADULT AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION$25,500
SPRINGWELL INC$25,000
FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$25,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $833k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FII-NATIONAL DBA UPTOGETHER: $545k → 9%THE CITY SCHOOL INC: $6k → 16%THE CITY SCHOOL INC: $5k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $12k → 16%THE PRICE CENTER: $15k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $25k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $15k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $10k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $10k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $10k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $5k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $5k → 8%WOMEN THRIVING INC: $48k → 7%WOMEN THRIVING INC: $38k → 7%WOMEN THRIVING INC: $14k → 7%WOMEN THRIVING INC: $11k → 7%WOMEN THRIVING INC: $10k → 7%GATEWAY ARTS: $15k → 7%GATEWAY ARTSVINFEN: $15k → 7%GATEWAY ARTSVINFEN: $10k → 7%VINFEN CORPORATION: $10k → 7%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Brookline Community Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 96%.

Brookline Community Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 34 repeat orgs$983k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
22

Total granted

$6.7M
$326k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+41%

Still filing today

82%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BC
    BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +225%
  • BT
    BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER
    8× · 2017–2025 · $730k · revenue +36% · 37% of their budget
  • ST
    STEPS TO SUCCESS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $566k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • BN
    BLACK N BROWN CLUB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $79k · revenue +67%
  • WC
    Wellesley Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +63%
  • HW
    HER WINGS FIRST
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
2
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
3
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
4
Brookline Cable Community Trust

Big is a community media arts center that provides community cable and online news and information channels for brookline, ma. big facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism and…

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5
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
6
Boston Cares Inc

Boston cares organizes and leads team-oriented volunteer opportunities and services in and around boston that have a positive impact on individuals and communities.

—
7
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
8
Boston Center for Adult Education Inc

To provide educational opportunities for adult learners in boston and surrounding communities that responded to the ongoing and evolving needs for professional growth and personal enrichment.

Education
9
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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10
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
11
Brookline Schools Staff Children's Cente

The organization's missions is to provide quality child care to children of teachers in the brookline, ma school system and others as per qualification procedures.

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12
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Steps to Success Inc; the most unlike its peers is Women Thriving Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 67 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
39/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF BROOKLINE: $1,564,524 · OtherTOWN OF BROOKLINEBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $1,498,163 · OtherBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTE…BROOKLINE HOUSING AUTHORITY: $610,100 · OtherBROOKLINE HOUSING AUTHORITYBROOKLINE IMPROVEMENT COALITION INC: $282,673 · OtherBROOKLINE IMPROVEMENT COALITION INC+32 more: $835,064 · Other+32 moreSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $566,285 · EducationSTEPS TO SUC…Cape Cod Foundation Inc: $200,000 · EducationCape Cod Fou…BUILDING BRIDGES EDUCATION: $32,500 · EducationMARTIN TRUST PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION FOR EARLY LEARNERS INC: $32,338 · Education+5 more: $77,500 · Education+5 moreFII - NATIONAL: $545,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIO…Women Thriving Inc: $119,868 · Human ServicesWomen Thriv…SPRINGWELL INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGWELL …VINFEN CORPORATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesVINFEN CORP…+3 more: $37,967 · Human ServicesBROOKLINE TEEN CENTER: $730,011 · Youth DevelopmentBROOKLINE …+1 more: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentBrookline Arts Center: $99,138 · Arts & CultureBLACK N BROWN CLUB INC: $79,000 · Arts & CulturePUPPET SHOWPLACE INC: $52,500 · Arts & CultureBROOKLINE IL PERETZ SCHOOL OF THE WORKMENS CIRCLE INC: $40,150 · Arts & CultureABILITIES DANCE INC: $31,700 · Arts & CultureARTBARN COMMUNITY THEATER INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBROOKLINEDOTNEWS CORPORATION: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $249,235 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $53,500 · HealthThe Heartofagiant Foundation Inc: $6,500 · Health
Other$4,790,524Education$908,623Human Services$832,835Youth Development$737,011Arts & Culture$352,988Food & Nutrition$254,235Health$60,000

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 budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $1,498,163 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetBROOKLINE TEEN CENTER: $730,011 over 8y, 37% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $566,285 over 8y, 11% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $545,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetBROOKLINE IMPROVEMENT COALITION INC: $282,673 over 4y, 25% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $249,235 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWomen Thriving Inc: $119,868 over 5y, 36% of budgetBrookline Arts Center: $99,138 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $57,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $53,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPET SHOWPLACE INC: $52,500 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetVINFEN CORPORATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE MULTI SERVICE CENTER CORP CENTER CORPORATION: $48,142 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $44,900 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLINE IL PERETZ SCHOOL OF THE WORKMENS CIRCLE INC: $40,150 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $39,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $36,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $34,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES EDUCATION: $32,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetMARTIN TRUST PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION FOR EARLY LEARNERS INC: $32,338 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC: $32,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetABILITIES DANCE INC: $31,700 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetWellesley College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTactical Reintegration Project Inc: $23,587 over 2y, 31% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $17,780 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC: $17,300 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetVoices Boston Inc: $15,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetARTBARN COMMUNITY THEATER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCOLLEGE AFFORDABLE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $14,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDevotion Primary Extended Day Program Inc: $14,010 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC: $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBROOKLINEDOTNEWS CORPORATION: $12,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe City School Inc: $11,467 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWHITE SNAKE PROJECTS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHEATH SCHOOL EXTENDED DAY INC: $10,356 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBROOKLINE CHINESE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ST MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HEBREW ACADEMY: $9,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLINCOLN EXTENDED-DAY ACTIVITIES PROGRAM INC: $7,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBROOKLINE HUB INC: $6,250 over 1y, 21% 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 BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STEPS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINE IMPROVEMENT COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Women Thriving Inc ↗
  • Who funds Brookline Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK N BROWN CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PUPPET SHOWPLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds VINFEN CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINE MULTI SERVICE CENTER CORP CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLINE IL PERETZ SCHOOL OF THE WORKMENS CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds MARTIN TRUST PARTNERSHIP IN EDUCATION FOR EARLY LEARNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILITIES DANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wellesley College ↗
  • Who funds Tactical Reintegration Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds Voices Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARTBARN COMMUNITY THEATER 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.

The Hamilton Company Charitable FoundationMA42.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Evening Clinic Foundation Inc

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 Brookline Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brookline Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Vinfen Corporation: 83% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Newton Community Service Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Women Thriving Inc: 14% of income from government
  • New England Hebrew Academy: 10% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc: 10% of income from government
  • White Snake Projects Inc: 8% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Voices Boston Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Puppet Showplace Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Brookline Arts Center: 2% of income from government
  • Abilities Dance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Brookline Teen Center: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 67 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 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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