· Community foundation
Brookline Community Foundation Inc
The brookline community foundation creates opportunity and promotes equity through the transformative power of giving.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $552k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $433k
- $250k+1 grant · $545k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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.
How this is measured
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 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%.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +225%
- BTBROOKLINE TEEN CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $730k · revenue +36% · 37% of their budget
- STSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $566k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- BNBLACK N BROWN CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $79k · revenue +67%
- WCWellesley Collegegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +63%
- HWHER WINGS FIRSTone 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.
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.
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…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
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…
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…
Boston cares organizes and leads team-oriented volunteer opportunities and services in and around boston that have a positive impact on individuals and communities.
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…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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