Connecticut · 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2025
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 79
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Brewer Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 85 | $1.4M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 79 | $930k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $834k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $868k | 49% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $650k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $540k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $369k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 47 | $309k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soundwaters Inc | $1,215,000 | 8 | 22% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $196,381 | 8 | 0% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $195,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $185,120 | 8 | 0% |
| Sail Maine | $135,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Save the Sound | $135,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Villanova University | $105,100 | 6 | 0% |
| Friends of Casco Bay | $105,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Freeport Community Services | $85,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Brewer Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
About The Brewer Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Brewer Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Brewer Family Foundation Inc reported 85 grants totaling $1,434,359 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 79 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Brewer Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Education (26%), Health (16%).
- Who are The Brewer Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Soundwaters Inc ($1.2M), Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc ($196k), Save the Bay Inc ($195k).
- Does The Brewer Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brewer Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Brewer Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, New Canaan Community Foundation Inc, Horizon Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Brewer Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Brewer Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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