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The Bromley Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$4.0MRecreation & Sports$3.1MFood & Nutrition$3.0MEducation$1.9MAnimals$1.4MReligion$1.1MCommunity Improvement$656kHealth$500kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $899k
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.6M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HALE EDUCATION INC$2,500,000
WILD$1,400,000
ST MARK'S OF EPHESUS$429,046
Individual grant recipient$400,000
PANTHERA$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
HUNTINGDON VALLEY CEMETERY & CHAPEL CO$100,000
THE COUNTRY CLUB EDUCATION FUND$100,000
TCC EMPLOYEE FUND$50,000
MARION INSTITUTE$50,000
RED GATE FARM$50,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE 1854 FOUNDATION: $100 → 22%ALLEN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $60k → 16%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $10k → 12%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTER: $100k → 11%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTER: $50k → 11%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTER: $25k → 11%NEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $25k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $50k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $25k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $25k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $25k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%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

VT
NH
MI
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
NM
NC
DC
TX
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 39 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
48

Total granted

$17M
$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+50%

Still filing today

72%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • REWILD
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +41%
  • THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +361%
  • PC
    PANTHERA CORPORATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
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
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment
5
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
6
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
7
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
8
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment
11
Natural Areas Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 93 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
43/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,521,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST MARK'S OF EPHESUS: $1,016,687 · OtherST MARK'S OF EPHESUSIndividual grant recipient: $1,000,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBRIDGE BOSTON CHARTER SCHOOL: $825,000 · OtherBRIDGE BOSTON CHARTER SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $404,350 · OtherRED GATE FARM: $275,000 · Other+59 more: $3,117,077 · Other+59 moreREWILD: $1,830,253 · AnimalsREWILDPANTHERA CORPORATION: $1,100,000 · AnimalsPANTHERA CORPORAT…+4 more: $135,000 · AnimalsHALE EDUCATION INC: $2,900,000 · Recreation & SportsHALE EDUCATION I…NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $910,000 · EnvironmentNORTHEAST WILDE…TOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $835,820 · EnvironmentTOMPKINS CONSER…Round the Bend Farm Inc: $835,000 · EnvironmentRound the Bend …MANOMET INC: $150,000 · Environment+5 more: $145,000 · EnvironmentTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $1,385,920 · Community ImprovementTHE URBAN …NEW PROFIT INC: $550,000 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT…+2 more: $30,000 · Community ImprovementBEACON ACADEMY INC: $550,800 · EducationWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $309,385 · EducationGIRLTREK INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Education+2 more: $55,000 · EducationTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $475,000 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $15,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$8,159,114Animals$3,065,253Recreation & Sports$2,900,000Environment$2,875,820Community Improvement$1,965,920Education$965,185Food & Nutrition$490,000

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 budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $2,900,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetREWILD: $1,830,253 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC: $1,385,920 over 6y, 24% of budgetPANTHERA CORPORATION: $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION: $910,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetTOMPKINS CONSERVATION: $835,820 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetRound the Bend Farm Inc: $835,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $550,800 over 3y, 12% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $550,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $475,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetWILLIAM PENN CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $309,385 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetNORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC: $175,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHUNTINGDON VALLEY CEMETERY AND CHAPEL COMPANY: $175,000 over 3y, 79% of budgetMANOMET INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $110,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWESTWOOD COMMUNITY CHEST: $85,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetYouth Opportunities Unlimited Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetAllen Neighborhood Center: $60,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetWestwood Land Trust Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWILDLIFE ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLTREK INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOEXISTENCE STORY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHE ANTHONY TRUST ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR MUSICAL ARTS INC: $46,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE MORY'S ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDARTMOUTH NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST INC: $35,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTRINITY YARD: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLewa Wildlife Conservancy USA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW POLITICS LEADERSHIP ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF BEDROCK GARDENS: $25,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDRIGHT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetST ANTHONY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONINC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN THE CITY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION LEAGUE OF PHILADELPHIA: $15,877 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EXPLORERS CLUB: $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDANIEL'S TABLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 Westwood Land Trust Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Rodman For Kids 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Highland Street Conne…The Carney Family Cha…Fidelity FoundationYawkey Foundation IICombined Jewish Phila…Barr FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…The Rands FoundationAdelard & Valeda Roy …
Boston Foundation IncMA30.1× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bromley Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bromley Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Bromley Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Bromley Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 93 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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