· Private foundation
The Behrakis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $45,000 |
| NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF LOWELL | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $10,000 |
| PROJECT MEXICO | $10,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL LUNG CENTER | $7,500 |
| WHISTLER HOUSE | $5,500 |
| LOWELL ASSOC FOR THE BLIND REISSUED | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES (HURRICANE HELENE) | $5,000 |
| MSPCA- NEVINS FARM | $5,000 |
| BOYS CLUB OF LOWELL | $5,000 |
| KOSMOS PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WHISTLER HOUSE 200TH | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 14 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PLPROJECT LEARN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +57%
- LALOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +53%
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $25k
- TUTUFTS UNIVERSITY FLETCHER SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ULUMASS LOWELL GREEK ARCHIVESone grant, 2021 · $17k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL HELLENIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Behrakis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Behrakis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lowell Association for the Blind Inc: 49% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc: 5% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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