· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $5,077 |
| METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM | $5,077 |
| FRESH START FURNITURE BANK | $5,077 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METROWEST | $5,077 |
| TEAM SHARING | $5,077 |
| ADDICTION REFERRAL CENTER | $5,077 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF MARLBORO | $5,077 |
| OUT METROWEST | $4,654 |
| WAYSIDE INN FOUNDATION | $4,654 |
| YMCA OF CENTRAL MASS | $4,654 |
| UNITED WAY COMMUNITY CUPBOARD | $4,331 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Marlborough Brigham Family Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +66%
- FSFRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC6× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +74%
- MHMARLBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +177% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- COCOUNCIL ON AGING MARLBORO SENIOR CENTERone grant, 2020 · $6k
- CSCITIZENS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF MARLBORO - ANNUAL GRANT AWARD 2022one grant, 2022 · $6k
- MPMARLBOROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOLS - VIRTUAL JOB SHADOWone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
North suffolk community services supports individuals and families across the lifespan in their pursuit of independence and stability by providing a comprehensive array of treatment and recovery services. our approach is to intervene as…
The medway village food pantry is a 100% choice pantry serving over 2,500 children, adults, and seniors in metrowest ma. each week clients may choose from a wide variety of items including fresh produce, eggs, cheese, shelf-stable foods,…
Old colony ymca helps children, families, and individuals develop to their fullest potential. we respond to ever-changing community needs and view our services through three lenses: youth development, healthy living, and social…
Melmark new england, is a multi state human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark new england is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
The Childrens Room creates safe, supportive commuities so that no child, teen or family has to grieve alone.
Mwcil enhances the full participation of persons with disabilities in the community.
Operation of a daycare facility, including pre-school, before and after school care,and summer camps for children living in the local community
We provide services to the senior citizens of Marlborough, MA
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Employment Options Inc and the most unlike its peers is Assabet Valley Mastersingers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds Addiction Referral Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds OUT METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER DAY ADULT SOCIAL DAY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Marlborough Public Schools Music Association ↗
- Who funds TEAM SHARING INC ↗
- Who funds KITS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Central Massachusetts (2909) ↗
- Who funds THE COTTAGE CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST CONCERN PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
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.
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
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 Marlborough Brigham Family Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Employment Options Inc — 100% of income from government
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Better Day Adult Social Day Program Inc — 0% of income from government
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.