Massachusetts · Private foundation
Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust
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.
- $185k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 | 45 | $185k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $175k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $110k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $115k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $107k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $110k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $117k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $100k | 36% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Shepherds Table Inc | $105,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $95,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Classroom 2 Community Inc | $60,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Miriam's Kitchen | $58,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Anacostia Watershed Society Inc | $47,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Skidmore College | $31,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Brookside Gardens Inc | $30,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Martha's Table Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Create Arts Center Inc | $28,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Williamstown Community Chest | $25,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($430k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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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: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust
- How much does Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust give?
- Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust reported 48 grants totaling $185,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Arts & Culture (16%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Shepherds Table Inc ($105k), Food & Friends Inc ($95k), Classroom 2 Community Inc ($60k).
- Does Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shirley Brownrigg Charitable 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 Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company, Greater Washington Community Foundation.
- Where is Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust based?
- Shirley Brownrigg Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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