· Private foundation
Brown Charitable 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S ROOM-CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN & TEENAGERS INC | $20,000 |
| THE PINE STREET INN | $18,000 |
| BIRTHDAY WISHES INC | $17,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $17,000 |
| SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $13,000 |
| BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC | $13,000 |
| PROJECT SMILE | $5,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS | $3,500 |
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, $392k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +99%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +162%
PINE STREET INN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +123%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +35%
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.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
To provide shelter and affordable housing, as well as advocacy and support services, to homeless, battered and low-income women, with or without children. abby's house empowers the women we serve to lead self-directed lives filled with…
Mary's shelter is committed to empowering homeless youth by providing housing, education, and social service programs.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brown Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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