Colorado · Private foundation
Brothers Brook 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.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 54
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 54
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $104M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Brothers Brook Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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 | 52 | $3.2M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 54 | $3.4M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $3.5M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $3.0M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $2.6M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $2.1M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $2.2M | 17% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waterside School Inc | $1,925,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The Brookings Institution | $1,525,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Family Centers Inc | $1,228,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Mianus River Gorge Inc | $1,165,160 | 8 | 21% |
| Women in Need Inc | $873,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Domus Kids Inc | $752,350 | 8 | 1% |
| St Lawrence University | $739,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund | $700,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Greenwich Land Trust Inc | $605,800 | 8 | 23% |
| New England College | $590,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 87 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($864k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brothers Brook Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Impact 100 Fairfield County · The Goodnow Fund · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
How this is measured
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About Brothers Brook Foundation
- How much does Brothers Brook Foundation give?
- Brothers Brook Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $3,691,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 54 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Brothers Brook Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Health (15%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Brothers Brook Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Waterside School Inc ($1.9M), The Brookings Institution ($1.5M), Family Centers Inc ($1.2M).
- Does Brothers Brook Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brothers Brook Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brothers Brook Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Near and Far Association Inc, The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Brothers Brook Foundation based?
- Brothers Brook Foundation is based in CO.
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