· Private foundation
The Broadbent Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GOVERNOR MIFFLIN HS COMMENCEMENT FUND | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of The Broadbent Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPARKER SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +82%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $60k · revenue +7%
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +22%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
Bucknell Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +45%
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.
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How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 PARKER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR READING AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR MIFFLIN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds GENEVA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Spring Arbor University ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Broadbent Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Broadbent Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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