· Private foundation
The Brewster 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $399k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $246,281 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $152,500 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CEDARS - SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $15,000 |
| BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $10,000 |
| BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RAND CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| DENNIS CONSERVATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE URBAN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD | $1,000 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
The Trustees of Princeton University8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +5%
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +63%
THE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +27%
Funded once
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.
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.…
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Education and Research
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DENNIS CONSERVATION LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BREWSTER CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MILLER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE COMPACT OF CAPE COD CONSERVATION TRUSTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brewster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brewster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: 100% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Brewster Conservation Trust: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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