How much does Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp give?

Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp reported 16 itemized grants totaling $231,530, out of $317,547 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (16%).

Who are Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Health Care for All Inc ($373k), New York City Urban Debate League Inc ($172k), The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc ($137k).

Does Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.

Where is Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp based?

Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp is based in MA.

Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp

Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp at a glance

· Community foundation

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.

$318k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$56k

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 2024.

Education$664kHealth$373kArts & Culture$279kYouth Development$103kHousing & Shelter$85kEnvironment$66kHuman Services$58kPublic Benefit$45kOther$0

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 16 grants below total $231,530, the rows itemized in this filing. The $317,547 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $86,017 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 · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $39k
$10k–50k10 grants · $137k
$50k–250k1 grant · $56k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL	$55,872
FREE ARTS NYC	$20,000
NEW YORK CITY DEBATE LEAGUE INC	$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
BRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION	$10,000
NEW YORK THEATRE BALLET	$10,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN	$10,000
THE HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY	$10,000
E INC	$8,000
CENTURY HIGH SCHOOL	$8,000
ROSIE'S PLACE	$7,500
GENERATION CITIZEN	$7,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

Region not stated$48k · 100% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: TRAINING · YOUTH AMBASSADOR PRG · SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL

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. 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.6M · 19 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+98%

Still filing today

95%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

HC
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $373k · revenue +404%
NY
NEW YORK CITY URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue +243%
US
UNITED STATES CAPITOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY
8× · 2017–2024 · $131k · revenue +22%

Funded once

TF
THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +98%
AH
ACHIEVE HARTFORD INC
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -100%
KT
KONQUER TOGETHER PROJECTS
one grant, 2022 · $6k

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.

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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education

Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education

Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education

Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Achieve Hartford Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 23 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/21

Grantees still filing

13/21

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$655,827Education$417,950Arts & Culture$278,800Human Services$128,000Environment$110,496Youth Development$65,000Crime & Legal$50,000

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.

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.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation IncMA15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brown Rudnick Charitable Foundation Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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.

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