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Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp
The foundation's mission is to address the educational and other needs of economically disadvantaged individuals and groups, primarily, but not exclusively in massachusetts, connecticut, rhode island, new york city (ny), orange county (ca), washington d.c.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $231,530 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $317,547 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $86,017 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $137k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH CARE FOR ALL | $55,872 |
| NEW YORK CITY DEBATE LEAGUE INC | $20,000 |
| FREE ARTS NYC | $20,000 |
| EAST BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL | $17,658 |
| UNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SO | $15,000 |
| UC IRVINE SCHOOL OF LAW | $12,500 |
| EMERSON COLLEGE DBA ELMA LEWIS | $12,000 |
| THE HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK THEATRE BALLET | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| E INC | $8,000 |
| CENTURY HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| GENERATION CITIZEN | $7,500 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $128k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Grants abroad, by region — $48k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: TRAINING · YOUTH AMBASSADOR PRG · SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 4 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HCHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $373k · revenue +404%
- NYNEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +240%
- USUNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TFTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +98%
- AHACHIEVE HARTFORD INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -100%
- KTKONQUER TOGETHER PROJECTSone grant, 2022 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieve Hartford Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bronx Letters Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds E INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE AFTER SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Health Care for All Inc — 44% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 34% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 22% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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