Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Behrakis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $187k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 73% of the organizations The Behrakis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k 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 | 32 | $187k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $142k | 73% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $111k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $109k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $73k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $78k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Learn Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Crossroads for Kids Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The National Hellenic Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Trinity Church | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lowell Association for the Blind Inc | $6,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Project Learn Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Crossroads for Kids Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The National Hellenic Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Holy Trinity Church | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lowell Association for the Blind Inc | $6,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marine Toys for Tots Foundation | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greek Institute Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 4% |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Blind in Greece | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Heroes Foundation of America Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hellenic Women's Club Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Behrakis Foundation 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: Demoulas Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Behrakis Foundation
- How much does The Behrakis Foundation give?
- The Behrakis Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $186,580 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Behrakis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Education (23%), Health (15%).
- Who are The Behrakis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($45k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($25k), Int'L Orthodox Christian Charities Inc ($25k).
- Does The Behrakis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Behrakis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Behrakis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Demoulas Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Behrakis Foundation based?
- The Behrakis Foundation is based in MA.
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