· Private foundation
Brownington Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k95 grants · $351k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $370k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $50,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| QUEBEC LABRADOR FOUNDATION (ANNUAL FUND) | $35,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $25,000 |
| ST EDMUNDS RETREAT INC | $20,000 |
| QUEBEC LABRADOR FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| THE BREARLEY SCHOOL | $15,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $15,000 |
| EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $11,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $10,500 |
| BERSHIRE NATIONAL RESOURCES COUNCIL (BNRC) | $10,000 |
| PUBLIC BROADCAST SERVICES | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 22 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
- NENEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $330k · revenue +24%
- TQTHE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $113k · revenue +36%
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +37%
Funded once
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TPTHE PUTNEY SCHOOL (DISCRETIONARY FUND)one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanity Forward Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The William Alanson White Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 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) — 2% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 173 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 NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHINA INSTITUTE IN AMERICA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds WORLD LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds Riverfront Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc
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 Brownington Foundation Inc 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.
- Noank Community Support Services Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc — 53% of income from government
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Riverfront Childrens Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 18% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Thames Valley Music School Inc — 3% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- New London Area Food Pantry — 1% 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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