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Fred J Brotherton Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Fred J Brotherton Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$682k
Granted FY2021
48
Grants FY2021
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
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01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.4MHealth$190kArts & Culture$82kReligion$82kEducation$65kYouth Development$52kHousing & Shelter$30kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2021 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 48 grants below total $610,436, the rows itemized in this filing. The $681,936 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $71,500 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k16 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $528k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$20k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Wistar Institute$25,000
New York City Relief, Inc.$25,000
Manhattan School of Music$25,000
Orleans Historical Society$25,000
Ariel Ministries$25,000
Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative, Inc.$25,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc.$25,000
Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center Inc.$25,000
Institute For Cancer Research$20,000
Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund$20,000
Franconia Mennonite Camp Assoc., Inc.$20,000
House of Little Pittsburgh$20,000
Hospitality Homes Inc.$20,000
Touch the World, Inc.$18,804
Inspire Sports Camps, Inc.$15,000
02Its 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.

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Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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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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Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
5
Humc Medical Observation Pa

To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.

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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
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Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
8
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
9
Laboure College of Healthcare Inc

Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.

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10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Humc Cardiovascular Partners Pc

The organization provides high quality medical care to the community that it serves and specifically provides cardiology & related professional medical services in conjunction with hmh hospitals corp.

Health
12
Hmh Hospitals Corporation

The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centenary University; the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
24/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc.: $25,000 · OtherSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Inc.LIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INCHouse of Little Pittsburgh: $20,000 · OtherHouse of Little PittsburghTOUCH THE WORLD INC: $18,804 · OtherTOUCH THE WORLD INCMultidisciplinary Assoc. for Psych Std: $10,000 · OtherCape Cod Comm. College Edu. Fndn, Inc.: $10,000 · OtherNorthern NJ Council Boy Scouts of America: $10,000 · OtherUnited Church of Christ: $10,000 · OtherTHIRD SCOTS & MARINERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherNEW CITY KIDS INC: $15,000 · OtherNEW CITY KIDS INCINSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC: $15,000 · OtherINSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INCFRANCONIA MENNONITE CAMP ASSOCIATIO: $20,000 · OtherFRANCONIA MENNONITE CAMP ASSOCIATIOMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $15,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC+10 more: $50,044 · Other+10 moreBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 · HealthBERGEN VOLUNTEER M…THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $25,000 · HealthTHE WISTAR INSTITU…KELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $20,000 · HealthKELLY ANNE DOLAN M…The Institute For Cancer Research: $20,000 · HealthThe Institute For …Gaylord Hospital INC: $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · HealthMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN SCHOO…ORLEANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureORLEANS HISTORI…ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY OF PERF…ARTS EMPOWERING LIFE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTS EMPOWERING…PATERSON MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $7,044 · Arts & CulturePATERSON MUSEUM…HUGUENOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEW PALTZ NY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHUGUENOT HISTOR…CITY RELIEF INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCITY RELIEF…CONNECTIONS AT HOME NEW JERSEY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTIONS…PONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPONY POWER …NATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL HO…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $14,544 · EducationCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationHolland Christian Home Foundation: $5,000 · EducationTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 · EducationARIEL MINISTRIES: $25,000 · ReligionChristian Herald Association Inc: $15,000 · ReligionHospitality Homes Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCHARLES RIVER EPISCOPAL CO-HOUSING ENDEAVOR INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$253,848Health$100,000Arts & Culture$82,044Human Services$60,000Education$44,544Religion$40,000Housing & Shelter$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORLEANS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBERGEN VOLUNTEER MEDICAL INITIATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIEL MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCITY RELIEF INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKELLY ANNE DOLAN MEMORIAL FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Institute For Cancer Research: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCONIA MENNONITE CAMP ASSOCIATIO: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS AT HOME NEW JERSEY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW CITY KIDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSPIRE SPORTS CAMPS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $14,544 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES RIVER EPISCOPAL CO-HOUSING ENDEAVOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCENTENARY UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPONY POWER THERAPIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTS EMPOWERING LIFE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOUGHTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATERSON MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $7,044 over 1y, 63% of budgetPATHLIGHT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGaylord Hospital INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUGUENOT HISTORICAL SOCIETY NEW PALTZ NY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWILD CAREINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHolland Christian Home Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD FELLOWSHIP CLUB OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLEASANT BAY COMMUNITY BOATING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF BERGEN COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP OF NJ INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

Columbia Bank Foundat…Investors Foundation …Ibm International Fou…Alfred N Sanzari Fami…Cape Cod Foundation I…Community Foundation …Verizon FoundationEquitable Foundation …T Rowe Price Program …The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…
Columbia Bank FoundationNJ22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · Investors Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Alfred N Sanzari Family Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Verizon Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable 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.
03Through Plinth

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How do I get to Fred J Brotherton Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fred J Brotherton Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 48 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $346k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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