New Jersey · Private foundation
The Breen Foundation
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.
- $15k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,039
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,839
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $151k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Breen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 7 | $15k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $31k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $22k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $40k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $41k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $19k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $14k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $16k | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh University | $47,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Franciscan University of Steubenville | $26,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Save Barnegat Bay Inc | $8,957 | 9 | 0% |
| Homefront Inc | $7,080 | 8 | 0% |
| Marquand Park Foundation | $6,300 | 9 | 2% |
| Princeton Friends School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgia Aquarium Inc & Subsidiary | $285 | 1 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $225 | 1 | 0% |
| Womanspace Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| St Dunstans Episcopal Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lehigh University | $47,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Franciscan University of Steubenville | $26,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Save Barnegat Bay Inc | $8,957 | 9 | 0% |
| Homefront Inc | $7,080 | 8 | 0% |
| Marquand Park Foundation | $6,300 | 9 | 2% |
| Princeton Friends School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgia Aquarium Inc & Subsidiary | $285 | 1 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $225 | 1 | 0% |
| Womanspace Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| St Dunstans Episcopal Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Historical Society of Princeton | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($117k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Breen 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: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Breen Foundation
- How much does The Breen Foundation give?
- The Breen Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $14,702 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Breen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Animals (34%), Environment (8%).
- Who are The Breen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lehigh University ($48k), Franciscan University of Steubenville ($26k), Save Barnegat Bay Inc ($9k).
- Does The Breen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Breen Foundation 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 The Breen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Breen Foundation based?
- The Breen Foundation is based in NJ.
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