· Private foundation
The Brewer Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $169k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $515k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUNDWATERS | $700,000 |
| THE LANDING SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $35,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SAVE THE SOUND | $25,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $25,000 |
| SAINT LUKES SCHOOL | $21,198 |
| SAIL MAINE | $20,000 |
| FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY | $20,000 |
| PERSON TO PERSON | $18,000 |
| SILVER HILL HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 17 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; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SISOUNDWATERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $196k · revenue +15%
SAVE THE BAY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SHSTANFORD HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $10k
- STSKY'S THE LIMIT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
- CCCONN COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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 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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The Teddy Balkind Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 178 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds SAIL MAINE ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY ↗
- Who funds FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds YARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Shack Sackler Foundation · Fore River Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Brewer Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Thrive Irc Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Crystal Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rollins College — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.