· Private foundation
Sharon a & Brian T Bruyette Fdtn Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER | $10,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BRIANS FUND | $5,000 |
| MERRY MIXERS | $5,000 |
| HOPE RURAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BBE SPORTS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS | $5,000 |
| FILOTIMO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| CT FOOD SHARE | $5,000 |
| MARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK | $5,000 |
| FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL | $4,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- HRHOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +65%
- FIFOODSHARE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +65%
- OFOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPHone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +5%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +4%
- TCTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Tertiary care academic medical center
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…
To provide healthcare services.
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Connecticut children's medical center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. we embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Malta House of Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Conscious Kids Inc - Agy Main. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 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. 32 of the 54 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 UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Merry Mixers Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FILOTIMO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISITING DENTAL HYGIENE 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: United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation
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 Sharon a & Brian T Bruyette Fdtn Inc 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.
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Visiting Dental Hygiene Inc — 74% of income from government
- Immacare Inc — 52% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hope Rural School Inc — 6% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.