· Private foundation
The Brennan Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH (FAITH DIRECT) | $51,332 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| ELIH FOUNDATION | $48,000 |
| BARUCH COLLEGE | $44,650 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| RC CHURCH OF SACRED HEART | $20,000 |
| CAST | $18,000 |
| SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE | $12,000 |
| SACRED HEART PARISH | $10,000 |
| THE ACADEMY OF MOUNT ST URSULA | $5,000 |
| VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| OLD COVE YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MILITARY EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY MUSEUM | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those 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 +92% since the first grant, against +49% for those funded once.
67 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 5 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VPVIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +38%
- BHBethesda Hospital Foundation Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +186%
- TNTHE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +139%
Funded once
- NWNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +53%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTHgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +49%
- TFTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALLone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -39%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
How this is measured
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 126 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 VIRGINIA PIEDMONT HERITAGE AREA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bethesda Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LITTLE CLUB SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAVAL INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SOUTHOLD TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Christian School ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds TRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN KINDERGARTEN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CRC RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FLORIDA COALITION FOR PRESERVATION INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brennan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brennan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
- Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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