· Private foundation
Lyman B Brainerd Jr 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
53% of Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $44k. 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS | $10,000 |
| PUTNEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE VISIONS | $5,000 |
| READ TO GROW | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC WORKS | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP PLACE | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WOMEN AND FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ENSEMBLENEWSRQ | $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 (FY22–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +43%
- PSPUTNEY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +47%
- FPFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +56%
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONAone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -18%
- PPPLANNNED PARENTHOODone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 22 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE VISIONS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CONSERVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR INTEGRATIVE & COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY CO BURK & ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLENEWSRQ INC ↗
- Who funds AS 220 ↗
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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyman B Brainerd Jr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fellowship Place Inc: 56% of income from government
- Putney School Inc: 0% of income from government
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