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Fj Brotherton Charitable Trust

Mount Pleasant, SC · EIN 99-6612263. Reported 57 grants totalling $491,691 to 56 recipients across tax years 2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$8,000median grant
$491,691granted, 2025
56recipients, as named on its returns
$7,868,606assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Fj Brotherton Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $8,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $25,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
13 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
26 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Homeless Prevention CouncilOrleans, MA$25,000112025
Tech Goes Home IncorporatedBoston, MA$25,000112025
Clarke School for the Deaf Dba Clarke Schools for Hearing and SpeechNorthampton, MA$20,000112025
Gore Place SocietyWaltham, MA$18,941112025
Cape AbilitiesHyannis, MA$15,000112025
Cape Cod Children's PlaceEastham, MA$15,000112025
Chatham Marconi Maritime CenterNorth Chatham, MA$15,000112025
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY$15,000112025
Mass AudubonSouth Wellfleet, MA$15,000112025
Palm Beach County Medical Society ServicesWest Palm Beach, FL$15,000112025
Preservation Society of CharlestonCharleston, SC$15,000112025
The Wistar InstitutePhiladelphia, PA$15,000112025
Volunteer Center of Bergen County IncParamus, NJ$15,000112025
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies IncSan Jose, CA$12,000112025
Arts Empowering LifeOrleans, MA$10,000112025
Behavioral Health InnovatorsChatham, MA$10,000112025
Bellforge Arts CenterMedfield, MA$10,000112025
Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$10,000212025
Dawn Treader Christian SchoolPaterson, NJ$10,000112025
Eliot School of Fine & Applied ArtsJamaica Plain, MA$10,000112025
Hancock Shaker VillagePittsfield, MA$10,000112025
Historic Huguenot StreetNew Paltz, NY$10,000112025
Historic Village at AllaireFarmingdale, NJ$10,000112025
Mid-Hudson Discovery MuseumPoughkeepsie, NY$10,000112025
Oasis - a Haven for Women and ChildrenPaterson, NJ$10,000112025
Open Door ArtsBoston, MA$10,000112025
SPECTRUM360West Orange, NJ$10,000112025
The Chatham Orpheum TheaterChatham, MA$10,000112025
The Highlands Nature Friends IncRingwood, NJ$10,000112025
Children's Day Preschool and Family CenterPassaic, NJ$8,000112025
End of Life Psychedelic CareAshland, OR$8,000112025
Junior Achievement of the Palm Beaches & Treasure Coast IncWest Palm Beach, FL$8,000112025
The Cordial Eye Gallery and Artist Space IncHyannis, MA$6,500112025
Catskill Flyfishing Center IncLivingston Manor, NY$5,000112025
Hospitality HomesBoston, MA$5,000112025
Lower Cape Outreach Council IncOrleans, MA$5,000112025
Provincetown Jazz FestivalOrleans, MA$5,000112025
St Paul's Community Development CorporationPaterson, NJ$5,000112025
The Academy of Performing ArtsOrleans, MA$5,000112025
The Mussel Ridge Historical SocietyOwls Head, ME$5,000112025
Bergen Volunteer Medical Initiative IncHackensack, NJ$4,000112025
Beyond the BoundsBrewster, MA$4,000112025
Champ Homes IncHyannis, MA$4,000112025
Push to WalkMontvale, NJ$4,000112025
The New York Academy of SciencesNew York, NY$4,000112025
Cape Code Museum of Natural HistoryBrewster, MA$3,500112025
PS5 PTAJersey City, NJ$3,000112025
YMCA Cape CodHyannis, MA$3,000112025
Ramapo College FoundationMahwah, NJ$2,500112025
Pleasant Bay Community BoatingHarwich, MA$2,000112025
Philanthropy RoundtableWashington, DC$1,250112025
CandidNew York, NY$1,000112025
Childrens Aid and Family ServicesParamus, NJ$1,000112025
Connections at HomeVerona, NJ$1,000112025
Friends of Bass RiverWest Dennis, MA$1,000112025
Thacher HallYarmouth Port, MA$1,000112025

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 31 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
9 grants
Human Services
5 grants
Education
4 grants
Health Care
3 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
3 grants
Housing & Shelter
2 grants
Recreation & Sports
1 grant
Environment
1 grant

Where its money goes

54% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Massachusetts
$264K
New Jersey
$94K
New York
$55K
Florida
$23K
Pennsylvania
$15K
South Carolina
$15K
California
$12K
Oregon
$8K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund28 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc20 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program17 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust16 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsEastern Bank Foundation11 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $8,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Fj Brotherton Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2024-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 3301 Salterbeck Street 200B, Mount Pleasant, SC, 29466. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 99-6612263 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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