· Private foundation
Brownstein Family 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| PIERREPONT SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| WALKING MOUNTAINS SCIENCE CENTER | $62,500 |
| THE VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $52,500 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MILL RIVER PARK COLLABORATIVE | $6,210 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
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.
11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPIERREPONT SCHOOL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $875k · revenue +27%
- QCQUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $810k · revenue +71%
- WMWALKING MOUNTAINS8× · 2018–2025 · $488k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- GCGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +152%
- TKTHE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMWNTone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SHSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k
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…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 PIERREPONT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds QUEENS COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP ORANGE 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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brownstein Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brownstein Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
How this is measured
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