· Private foundation
Holbrook Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
73% of Holbrook Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Holbrook Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $45k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE | $2,500 |
| READY KIDS INC | $2,500 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FD | $2,500 |
| VILLAGE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SUSQUEHANNA ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,500 |
| SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY | $2,500 |
| HYDE HALL | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–21, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +15%
- VSVILLAGE SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · $8k · revenue +21%
- PLPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE3× · 2019–2021 · $7k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- MJMETROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +25%
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +10%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To support and to provide advice and assistance to the trustees of the hill-stead museum, a national historic landmark and public charity which preserves, displays and interprets the 1901 colonial home, property, and fine art collections…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds MILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FOR HELP IN EMERGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HYDE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds READYKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds FENIMORE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OTSEGO 2000 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: Alice Busch Gronewaldt Foundation Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Holbrook Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holbrook Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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