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The Bromley Charitable Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $899k
- $250k+7 grants · $5.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HALE EDUCATION INC | $2,500,000 |
| WILD | $1,400,000 |
| ST MARK'S OF EPHESUS | $429,046 |
| PANTHERA | $400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $400,000 |
| ROUND THE BEND FARM | $250,000 |
| WILDLIFE GUARDIANS | $250,000 |
| NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST | $200,000 |
| BRIDGE BOSTON CHARTER SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE | $149,420 |
| THE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND | $100,000 |
| HUNTINGDON VALLEY CEMETERY & CHAPEL CO | $100,000 |
| RED GATE FARM | $50,000 |
| MARION INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| TCC EMPLOYEE FUND | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HEHALE EDUCATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +21% · 32% of their budget
REWILD2× · 2023–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +41%
THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +361%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $250k
- BCBROOKLINE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Build Health International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 93 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds PANTHERA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TOMPKINS CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds Round the Bend Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGDON VALLEY CEMETERY AND CHAPEL COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST ↗
- Who funds Youth Opportunities Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds Allen Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Westwood Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Barr Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Rands Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Bromley Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Susu Community Farm Inc — 10% of income from government
- Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Supportive Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Boston's Higher Ground Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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