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Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$50k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2026
11
Organizations funded FY2025
18%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
4
Total assets, FY2026
$9k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 18% of the organizations Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving12$50k25%
FY202511$52k18%
FY202410$53k20%
FY20239$46k0%
FY202212$102k8%
FY202111$69kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Education$151kEnvironment$77kHealth$73kArts & Culture$27kAnimals$19kFood & Nutrition$16kYouth Development$5kCivil Rights$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Miquon School$72,00060%
World Computer Exchange Inc$65,000644%
Discovery Museum Inc$17,00040%
The Food Project Inc$13,00030%
Citysprouts Inc$13,00060%
Raw Art Works Inc$5,00020%
Backyard Growers Inc$2,00020%
Congregation Eitz Chayim Inc$1,2502n/a
Council for a Livable World$1,25050%
Music for Food Inc$1,00021%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($181k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Miquon School: $72,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Computer Exchange Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetDiscovery Museum Inc: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCitysprouts Inc: $13,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRaw Art Works Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBackyard Growers Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCouncil for a Livable World: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMusic for Food Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation 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.

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About Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn

How much does Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn give?
Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn reported 12 grants totaling $49,570 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (40%), Environment (21%), Health (20%).
Who are Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: The Miquon School ($72k), World Computer Exchange Inc ($65k), Discovery Museum Inc ($17k).
Does Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn based?
Carla M Bregman Charitable Fdn is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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