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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 FY2025still arriving
85
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$2.0MEducation$1.5MHealth$977kHuman Services$261kArts & Culture$244kRecreation & Sports$163kAnimals$120kYouth Development$117kOther$0
02FY2025 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $169k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $515k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUNDWATERS$700,000
THE LANDING SCHOOL$50,000
COLGATE UNIVERSITY$35,000
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION$30,000
SAVE THE SOUND$25,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$25,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$25,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$25,000
SAINT LUKES SCHOOL$21,198
FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES$20,000
FRIENDS OF CASCO BAY$20,000
SAIL MAINE$20,000
PERSON TO PERSON$18,000
MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST$15,000
MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION$15,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT HOME: $3k → 22%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $10k → 8%CARVER CENTER: $11k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $11k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%WORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%CARVER CENTER: $5k → 9%GUIDING EYES: $5k → 9%WORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%GUIDING EYES: $5k → 9%GUIDING EYES: $3k → 9%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $10k → 7%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 17%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8k → 7%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $10k → 9%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 7%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $10k → 9%FREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 7%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $5k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $3k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $3k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%MOTHERS FOR OTHERS: $1k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $5k → 9%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

ME
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 116 repeat orgs$242k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
43

Total granted

$5.7M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

62%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SI
    SOUNDWATERS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $196k · revenue +15%
  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $195k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • J
    JDRFORG
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • T
    TREVOR
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • ST
    SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
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
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
3
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
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
9
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
10
United States Telecom Association

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…

—
11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
12
Stony Brook Childrens Services 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 The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 178 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/100
Grantees still filing
69/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LANDING SCHOOL: $550,000 · OtherTHE LANDING SCHOOLSAVE THE SOUND: $202,000 · OtherSAVE THE SOUNDTHE LANDINGS SCHOOL: $175,000 · OtherTHE LANDINGS SCHOOL+114 more: $1,595,961 · Other+114 moreSOUNDWATERS INC: $1,215,000 · EnvironmentSOUNDWATERS INCSAVE THE BAY INC: $195,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY INCSAVE THE SOUND: $135,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $105,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF CASCO BAYMaine Island Trail Association: $60,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $60,000 · Environment+4 more: $26,000 · EnvironmentCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $196,381 · HealthCROHN'S & CO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $185,120 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $55,020 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH…SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 · HealthSILVER HILL …The Stamford Hospital: $30,000 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $27,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $23,000 · Health+4 more: $15,500 · HealthVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $105,100 · EducationCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationYARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $30,000 · EducationTrevor Day School: $30,000 · EducationTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $27,182 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $25,000 · EducationGRIER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Education+6 more: $32,000 · EducationFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $85,000 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $20,377 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $20,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesWORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $8,000 · Human Services+3 more: $5,840 · Human ServicesSAIL MAINE: $135,000 · Arts & CultureGREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $21,000 · Arts & CultureMaine Maritime Museum: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,588 · Arts & CultureFUTURE 5 INC: $58,110 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $35,175 · Youth DevelopmentSEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE: $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HT40 FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $500 · Youth Development
Other$2,522,961Environment$1,796,000Health$657,021Education$429,282Human Services$227,217Arts & Culture$185,588Youth Development$121,785

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUNDWATERS INC: $1,215,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $196,381 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $195,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $185,120 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL MAINE: $135,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $135,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $105,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASCO BAY: $105,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFREEPORT COMMUNITY SERVICES: $85,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Island Trail Association: $60,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $58,110 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $57,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $55,020 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK COMMON PANTRY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHORIZONS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFREEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $35,175 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYARMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $35,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Southern Maine: $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINDWARD SCHOOL: $27,182 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF INDEPENDENCE: $23,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $20,649 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $20,377 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaine Maritime Museum: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGRIER FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMIDCOAST HUMANE: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MARYLAND INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 SAIL MAINE ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
  • 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 HORIZONS INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT20.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Brewer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brewer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 178 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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