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Marlborough Brigham Family Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,077
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,077
Organizations funded a year
12 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$461k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Marlborough Brigham Family Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationOther
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
FY2024still arriving11$54k36%
FY202313$52k38%
FY202214$57k50%
FY202116$56k69%
FY202012$59k50%
FY201912$49k25%
FY201812$52k17%
FY201717$51kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$89kHealth$77kEducation$74kYouth Development$57kArts & Culture$43kEmployment$29kFood & Nutrition$19kReligion$17kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($212k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Marlborough Brigham Family Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: $41,140 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFresh Start Furniture Bank Inc: $23,765 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMarlborough Historical Society: $23,500 over 5y, 29% of budgetEmployment Options Inc: $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThrive Support and Advocacy Inc: $20,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAddiction Referral Center Inc: $20,140 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetThe Metrowest Free Medical Program Inc: $15,140 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetOut Metrowest Inc: $9,597 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBetter Day Adult Social Day Program Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMarlborough Public Schools Music Association: $6,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetTeam Sharing Inc: $5,077 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetYMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909): $4,654 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cottage Children's Center Inc: $2,955 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Tri County Inc: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Concern Pregnancy Resource Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAssabet Valley Mastersingers: $1,500 over 1y, 3.2% 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 16.

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.

Avidia Charitable Foundation IncMA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Marlborough Savings Charitable Foundation · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · The Sudbury Foundation · Cutting E M Uw Bo a H Winn Et Als · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Marlborough Brigham Family Trust

How much does Marlborough Brigham Family Trust give?
Marlborough Brigham Family Trust reported 11 grants totaling $53,832 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marlborough Brigham Family Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Health (18%), Education (17%).
Who are Marlborough Brigham Family Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc ($41k), Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc ($24k), Marlborough Historical Society ($24k).
Does Marlborough Brigham Family Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marlborough Brigham Family Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marlborough Brigham Family Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Main Street Group Foundation Inc.
Where is Marlborough Brigham Family Trust based?
Marlborough Brigham Family Trust 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 55 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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