· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE WESTMINSTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $10,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NENEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $330k · revenue +11%
- TQTHE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $113k · revenue +36%
- TBTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- TPTHE PUTNEY SCHOOL (DISCRETIONARY FUND)one grant, 2020 · $10k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%- HFHUMANITY FORWARD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -87%
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 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…
How this is measured
104 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. 104 of the 173 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.
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 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- 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 PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brownington Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brownington Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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