Massachusetts · Private foundation
Roaring Brook 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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Roaring Brook Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 56 | $2.2M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $2.2M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $1.6M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $1.9M | 8% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $1.6M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $1.2M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 60 | $980k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $955k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Putney School Inc | $1,325,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Roots Rising Inc | $510,000 | 7 | 23% |
| Earthjustice | $475,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ocean Conservancy | $425,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Greenagers Inc | $400,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Gulf of Maine Research Institute | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ecology Education Inc | $375,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Freshfarm Markets | $370,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Latin American Youth Center | $353,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Telling Room | $350,000 | 8 | 10% |
Show all 109 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($852k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Roaring Brook Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Geoffrey C Hughes Foundation Inc · Oristaglio Family Foundation · Lee Bank Foundation Inc · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Roaring Brook Family Foundation
- How much does Roaring Brook Family Foundation give?
- Roaring Brook Family Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $2,245,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Roaring Brook Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Education (25%), Food & Nutrition (19%).
- Who are Roaring Brook Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Putney School Inc ($1.3M), Roots Rising Inc ($510k), Earthjustice ($475k).
- Does Roaring Brook Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Roaring Brook Family Foundation 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 Roaring Brook Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc, Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Roaring Brook Family Foundation based?
- Roaring Brook Family Foundation is based in MA.
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