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The Brett & Meaghan Barakett Foundation at a glance

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The Brett & Meaghan Barakett 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$325k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$6.4MScience & Tech$1.8MSocial Science$1.0MHealth$656kRecreation & Sports$172kCommunity Improvement$51kArts & Culture$30kCrime & Legal$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $700k
  • $250k+1 grant · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Harvard University$325,000
Villanova University$200,000
Ivey Business School at UWO$145,000
Fordham University$125,000
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research$100,000
Brunswick School Inc$80,000
Friends of Recreation Inc$50,000
Greenwich Academy$25,000
Center for Mind-Body Medicine$25,000
One Girl Inc$20,000
Sea Star Waldorf School Initiative$11,000
Sudc Foundation$10,000
Mount Auburn Preservation Foundation Inc$10,000
Rohis Liberation Station Inc$10,000
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EXHALE TO INHALE INC: $2k → 17%EXHALE TO INHALE INC: $1k → 17%JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of The Brett & Meaghan Barakett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Brett & Meaghan Barakett Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 21 repeat orgs$910k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
35

Total granted

$6.2M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+27%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • GA
    GREENWICH ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $775k · revenue +31%
  • BS
    BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $745k · revenue +69%
  • FU
    Fordham University
    3× · 2021–2025 · $625k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • HU
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY - PLEDGE
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +52%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL - DR SANTUCCI
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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6
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Western New England University

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…

Education
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is It Starts With Soccer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 66 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,500,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $775,000 · EducationGREENWICH ACADEMY INCBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $745,000 · EducationBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INCFordham University: $625,000 · EducationFordham UniversityTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $400,000 · EducationTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INCVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · Education+5 more: $93,000 · EducationHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $1,010,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLIVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL AT UWO: $973,300 · OtherIVEY BUSINESS SCHOOL AT UWOBrown University - Pledge: $500,000 · OtherBrown University - PledgeFordham University - Pledge: $500,000 · OtherFordham University - PledgeHARVARD UNIVERSITY - PLEDGE: $250,000 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY - PLEDGE+26 more: $322,261 · Other+26 moreWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $400,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $50,000 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE: $25,000 · HealthWestchester Medical Center Foundation: $25,000 · Health+7 more: $25,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementFriends of Recreation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SUDC FOUNDATION: $35,000 · PhilanthropyJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNorth Palm Beach Rowing Club Inc: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsTreasure Coast Rowing Club Inc: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsGREENWICH YOUTH LACROSSE INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Mount Auburn Preservation Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$5,338,000Other$3,555,561Health$525,000Community Improvement$505,000Philanthropy$111,000Recreation & Sports$96,000Arts & Culture$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH ACADEMY INC: $775,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $745,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFordham University: $625,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: $400,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Palm Beach Rowing Club Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUDC FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTreasure Coast Rowing Club Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetROHIS LIBERATION STATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetA BETTER BALANCE INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Medical Center Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEA STAR WALDORF SCHOOL INITIATIVE: $21,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOVERCOMING BARRIERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTHE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HASTY PUDDING - INSTITUTE OF 1770 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWICH YOUTH LACROSSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTSERINGS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF THE PALM BEACHES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach Civic Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXHALE TO INHALE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBradley Hospital Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetABILIS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNutritionfactsorg Inc: $1,011 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIt Starts With Soccer: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA YOUTH NETWORK OF AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGHS Cardinal Hockey Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

Community Foundation …Synchrony FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundPaypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…
Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties IncFL13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Brett & Meaghan Barakett Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brett & Meaghan Barakett Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home