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The Brewster Family Foundation at a glance

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The Brewster Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$150kEnvironment$82kHealth$66kScience & Tech$64kPublic Benefit$45kHuman Services$26kInternational$6kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAMILY ANNEX$25,000
HORACE MANN SCHOOL$25,000
COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND$10,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
STUDIES IN GENDER & SEXUALITY$5,000
BROOKLYN BOTANICAL GARDEN$3,000
PROJECT REDWOOD$2,500
ASIAN WOMEN GIVING CIRCLE$500
YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK$500
NEW CANAAN YMCA$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%THE FAMILY ANNEX: $25k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $500 → 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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$371k · 12 repeat orgs$91k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against -79% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

$371k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-79%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CC
    COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +37%
  • BH
    Brooklyn Heights Association Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • FA
    FAMILY ANNEX CHILDCARE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • MA
    METROPOLITAN ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BB
    BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -79%
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
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
2
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
3
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…

Recreation & Sports
4
Brooklyn College Association Inc

To support and advance the education, research, and the public service mission of brooklyn college of the city university of new york (cuny).

Education
5
The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc

To generate, encourage and promote the educational purposes of brooklyn college of the city university of new york and the educational welfare of its students in their relations with each other, the members of the faculty, the alumni and…

Education
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
9
Brooklyn Charter School

Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…

Education
10
Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation

Creates experiences that ignite curiosity, celebrate identity & cultivate joyful learning.

Arts & Culture
11
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York; the most unlike its peers is Brooklyn Heights Association Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $64,000 · OtherRESEARCH FOUNDATIONRESEARACH FOUNDTION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INC: $60,000 · OtherRESEARACH FOUNDTION FOR MENTAL HYGIENE INCFAMILY ANNEX CHILDCARE: $25,000 · OtherFAMILY ANNEX CHILDCAREIndividual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+8 more: $18,700 · Other+8 moreTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEG…Horace Mann School: $25,000 · EducationHorace Mann SchoolSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDAT…BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $3,000 · EnvironmentCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $45,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUS…THE FAMILY ANNEX: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesPROJECT REDWOOD: $5,500 · PhilanthropyBrooklyn Heights Association Inc: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Other$180,700Education$125,000Environment$78,000Public Benefit$45,000Human Services$25,500Philanthropy$5,500Community Improvement$2,000

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 budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHorace Mann School: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY ANNEX: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPROJECT REDWOOD: $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Heights Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES: $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Brewster Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brewster Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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 21 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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