New York · Private foundation
The Brennan Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $377k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $51,332
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations The Brennan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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 | 29 | $377k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $324k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $405k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $400k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $249k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $368k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $323k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $238k | 24% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area Association | $107,850 | 9 | 7% |
| Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc | $79,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Little Club Scholarship Foundation Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 19% |
| The Naval Institute Foundation Inc | $58,600 | 6 | 1% |
| Gettysburg Foundation | $49,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Community Action of Southold Town Inc | $42,500 | 3 | 2% |
| Good Shepherd Services | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Christian School | $32,750 | 4 | 84% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The National Sporting Library and Museum | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Brennan Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Luminescence Foundation Inc · Dun Foundation · William M Backer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Principato Family Foundation Inc · The Seilheimer Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About The Brennan Family Foundation
- How much does The Brennan Family Foundation give?
- The Brennan Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $376,982 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Brennan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Philanthropy (21%), Religion (16%).
- Who are The Brennan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area Association ($108k), Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ($80k), The Little Club Scholarship Foundation Inc ($70k).
- Does The Brennan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brennan Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Brennan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Luminescence Foundation Inc, Dun Foundation, William M Backer Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Brennan Family Foundation based?
- The Brennan Family Foundation is based in NY.
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