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Henry & Wendy Breck 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.

$43k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

Education$327kEnvironment$141kArts & Culture$9kInternational$4kCrime & Legal$1kOther$126k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$966k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROTON SCHOOL$30,000
ST LUKE'S SCHOOL$10,000
THE THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION$1,000
THE PIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND$500
THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER FOR THE AGING$500
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS$500
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $75k → 8%NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE: $500 → 6%STONYBROOK FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NURSERY SCHOOL: $1k → 16%ST LUKE'S SCHOOL: $50k → 17%GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $55k → 8%BROOKEVILLE PBA: $250 → 6%ST LUKE'S SCHOOL: $10k → 17%GLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%THE PIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500 → 6%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $500 → 17%GROTON SCHOOL: $30k → 8%THE PIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $500 → 6%THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $10k → 17%GROTON SCHOOL: $30k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICT: $500 → 17%GROTON SCHOOL: $25k → 8%THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $100 → 17%GROTON SCHOOL: $25k → 8%TWO EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GROTON SCHOOL: $25k → 8%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: $1k → 17%HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%THE THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%GROTON SCHOOL: $20k → 8%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $1k → 17%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $1k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $500 → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: $500 → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $500 → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $500 → 17%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: $500 → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $500 → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $500 → 17%COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $500 → 17%NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $2k → 17%THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER FOR THE AGING: $1k → 17%THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER FOR THE AGING: $500 → 17%THE CARTER BURDEN CENTER FOR THE AGING: $500 → 17%TUSK USA: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$374k · 8 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

$374k
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+8%

Still filing today

88%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCrime & LegalInternationalOther

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

  • GROTON SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $155k · revenue +17%
  • SL
    ST LUKE'S SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +25%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARVARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • TU
    TUSK USA INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • SB
    STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +224%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
Foundation for Research of the New York Academy of Osteopathy Inc
5
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
9
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

10
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
11
New York University School of Business Foundation Inc

New york university school of business foundation inc, shall be operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, including the promotion, encouragement, and sponsorship of study, research, and (continued on schedule o)other…

12
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stony Brook Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Global Coral Reef Alliance Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GROTON SCHOOL — $155,000 · EducationGROTON SCHOOLPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeST LUKE'S SCHOOL — $60,000 · EducationST LUKE'S SCHOOL+3 more — $11,500 · EducationGLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC — $140,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE…+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentHARVARD COLLEGE — $100,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGETHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $10,100 · OtherTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOLTUSK USA INC — $10,000 · OtherTUSK USA INC+6 more — $6,250 · OtherTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE THIRTY SIX EAST SIXTY SECOND STREET FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC — $500 · Arts & CultureCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $4,000 · InternationalNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$326,500Environment$140,500Other$126,350Arts & Culture$8,500International$4,000Crime & Legal$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGROTON SCHOOL — $155,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL CORAL REEF ALLIANCE INC — $140,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S SCHOOL — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTUSK USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPIPING ROCK SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY13.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Henry & Wendy Breck Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Henry & Wendy Breck 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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