· Private foundation
The Brennan Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FOUNDERS FUND INC | $75,000 |
| THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RIDE TO REMEMBER | $10,000 |
| THE RYAN SHAW FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $2,500 |
| WILLIAM J BOYLE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,500 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $2,000 |
| EAST BOSTON LITTLE LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| BILL BELICHICK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LONGMEADOW AQUATIC CLUB | $1,800 |
| ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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
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 +31% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +31%
- RTRIDE TO REMEMBER INC6× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +29% · 89% of their budget
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS7× · 2017–2023 · $36k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDERS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SOSISTERS OF SAINT JOSEPHone grant, 2017 · $15k
- CHCARING HEALTH CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +40%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint mary's hospital is a member of trinity health of new…
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint mary's hospital foundation is a member of trinity health of…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 72 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 THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE TO REMEMBER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RYAN SHAW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BOYLE SCHOLARSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CARING HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MERCY HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Path University ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINA'S HOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BILL BELICHICK FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · The Antonacci Family Foundation for Charitable Giving Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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.
- Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
- Caring Health Center Inc: 39% of income from government
- Bay Path University: 3% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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