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Sharon a & Brian T Bruyette Fdtn Inc at a glance

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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.

$115k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$174kFood & Nutrition$114kEducation$112kArts & Culture$73kHuman Services$56kHousing & Shelter$45kRecreation & Sports$43kPhilanthropy$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH$10,000
JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER$10,000
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$7,000
MERRY MIXERS$5,000
BBE SPORTS$5,000
FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS$5,000
HOPE RURAL SCHOOL$5,000
FILOTIMO FOUNDATION$5,000
THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC$5,000
BRIANS FUND$5,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$5,000
MARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK$5,000
CT FOOD SHARE$5,000
OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE$4,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%VISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC: $3k → 8%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%VISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC: $3k → 8%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $8k → 10%FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS: $5k → 9%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $7k → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $5k → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $5k → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $5k → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
NV
OH
CT
RI
MD
DE
KS
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$600k · 31 repeat orgs$152k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$600k
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+12%

Still filing today

55%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HR
    HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +65%
  • FI
    FOODSHARE INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $40k · revenue +65%
  • OF
    OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • TC
    THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $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.

04Its field

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.

1
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
4
The Mercy Hospital Inc

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…

Health
5
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
6
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
8
Connecticut Children's Medical Center

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…

Health
9
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

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…

Health
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

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…

Health
11
Winchester Hospital

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…

Health
12
Joslin Clinic Inc

To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Malta House of Care Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARSTOW REED SOCIETY: $70,000 · OtherBARSTOW REED SOCIETYFOODSHARE INC: $39,500 · OtherFOODSHARE INCPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $31,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCBRIANS FUND: $30,000 · OtherBRIANS FUNDKANE CENTER ENDOWMENT - COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $21,000 · OtherKANE CENTER ENDOWMENT - COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNT…CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $18,000 · OtherNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $15,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $14,000 · OtherTHE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $13,000 · Other+24 more: $123,500 · Other+24 moreUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SA…HOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC: $40,500 · EducationHOPE RURAL SCHOO…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY O…THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $6,500 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIM…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $47,000 · HealthJOSLIN DIABET…MALTA HOUSE OF CARE INC: $12,000 · HealthMALTA HOUSE O…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber C…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH …THE HERREN PROJECT: $5,000 · HealthTHE HERREN PR…Merry Mixers Inc: $5,000 · HealthMerry Mixers …+1 more: $1,000 · HealthOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $38,200 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION …MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUS…MALTA HOUSE INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterMALTA HOUS…Habitat for Humanity of Florida Inc: $3,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesVISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK INC: $33,500 · Public BenefitFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $25,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$375,000Education$112,000Health$90,000Housing & Shelter$69,200Human Services$47,500Public Benefit$33,500Food & Nutrition$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $47,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE RURAL SCHOOL INC: $40,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $39,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $38,200 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMARINER SANDS CHARITY WEEK INC: $33,500 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $32,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMALTA HOUSE OF CARE INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFILOTIMO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERREN PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMerry Mixers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetVISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Florida Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMACARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSCIOUS KIDS INC - AGY MAIN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDempsey Center for Quality Cancer Care: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THAI DAUGHTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FILOTIMO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Merry Mixers Inc ↗
  • Who funds VISITING DENTAL HYGIENE INC ↗

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.

United Way Inc United…Eversource Energy Fou…Hartford Foundation f…The William and Alice…J Walton Bissell Foun…Sbm Charitable Founda…Farmington Bank Commu…Peoples United Commun…Arbella Insurance Fou…Fairfield County's Co…Aetna Foundation IncTd Charitable Foundat…
United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne ConnecticutCT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sharon a & Brian T Bruyette Fdtn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sharon a & Brian T Bruyette Fdtn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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