2025–2026
Annual Report of Giving
A COMMUNITY
A COMMITMENT
A CUMULATIVE IMPACT
A CUMULATIVE IMPACT
A CUMULATIVE IMPACT
A CUMULATIVE IMPACT
A CUMULATIVE IMPACT
A CUMULATIVE IMPACT
Our shared dedication builds a cherished experience now, for the next generation.
HEAD OF SCHOOL
A message from the
HEAD OF SCHOOL
HEAD OF SCHOOL
HEAD OF SCHOOL
Meadowbrook’s strength is surging because of you, our donors. Thank you. Last year's donors gave almost $5.5 million to Meadowbrook.
The combination of a record-breaking $2,391,427 given to The Meadowbrook Fund and the income we receive from our growing endowment totaled approximately $4 million, directly contributing almost 18% of our annual operating budget. That is a staggering amount of money for our small community and reflects the commitment of those who are on campus today, as well as those who had the foresight to invest in Meadowbrook decades ago. This investment does not just provide “extras” or “nice-to-haves.” It is essential to our program and to the best-in-class education we aim to provide to our students.
As I write this, we have 329 students in our classrooms making deep connections with each other and the materials in front of them. They are being challenged by master teachers who want them to engage with their learning so that they not only retain information but also discuss it at the dinner table tonight, and want to find out even more tomorrow. Inspiring education like this cannot be done without intentional investment in our people and programs.
Below you will read about some of the initiatives we have been able to undertake this year because of the generosity of our community, including the creation of a new academic leadership position. You will also have a chance to meet two families—one that has been connected to Meadowbrook for decades and another that is new to our community—to hear about why they make Meadowbrook a philanthropic priority. I invite you to spend a few minutes looking at the list of donors as well. Last year, 613 people and organizations made gifts to Meadowbrook ranging from $5 to $1,000,000! Every one of these donors contributed to the growth and success of our students last year, and their impact will be felt for the rest of their lives.
I could not do this without each and every one of you.
With my immense gratitude,
arvind
THE NUMBERS
THE NUMBERS
THE NUMBERS
THE NUMBERS
OPERATING
STATEMENTS
AND CONTRIBUTIONS
FY26 Revenue
$25,363,516
FY26 Expenses
$25,347,222
FY26 Donations
$5,484,619
Note: All numbers are unaudited estimates
$28.7 Million
$28.7 Million
Endowment Market Value:
as of June 30, 2025
unaudited estimate
FUND
FUND
The Meadowbrook
FUND
FUND
Advancement Committee Chairs: Bryan Krause
The Meadowbrook Fund is the backbone of Meadowbrook’s fundraising program.
It provides vital support that allows Meadowbrook to hire the best teachers, give them the resources they need, offer financial assistance to amazing students, and give our students the chance to go beyond. Most of our donors choose to make unrestricted gifts, allowing the school the greatest flexibility to deploy funds where they are most needed. Some of our donors prefer to show their support for a particular area of the school by directing their gifts to a specific part of The Meadowbrook Fund: financial assistance, faculty support, or academic excellence.
Unrestricted
(Meadowbrook’s
Greatest Needs)
A gift to the Unrestricted Meadowbrook Fund impacts every facet of Meadowbrook, from our students and faculty to buildings and technology. It provides us with the most flexibility to deliver the best, most rigorous academic program to our world’s future leaders.
Faculty Support
A gift to The Meadowbrook Fund for Academic Excellence supports the academic rigor that Meadowbrook is known for by ensuring that our faculty has the tools they need to challenge students. Gifts also provide us with the invaluable ability to say “yes!” when a teacher comes up with a new idea to reshape their program, bring an expert into their classroom, or embark on an interdisciplinary project with one of our specialists.
EXCELLENCE
Academic Excellence
A gift to The Meadowbrook Fund for Academic Excellence supports the academic rigor that Meadowbrook is known for by ensuring that our faculty has the tools they need to challenge students. Gifts also provide us with the invaluable ability to say “yes!” when a teacher comes up with a new idea to reshape their program, bring an expert into their classroom, or embark on an interdisciplinary project with one of our specialists.
Financial
Assistance
A gift to The Meadowbrook Fund for Financial Assistance ensures that Meadowbrook can enroll talented students from socioeconomically diverse backgrounds, building a stronger community for all students. With your support, we can help ensure that any child can receive a transformative Meadowbrook education, regardless of their family’s means.
94%
Parent Participation
142
Alumni Donors
97%
Faculty Participation
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE
GIVE
Why We
D’Ann and Don Riemer, Grandparents
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D’Ann and Don Riemer have proudly supported The Meadowbrook Fund since their older grandchild, Jet ’26, started at Meadowbrook as a junior kindergartener. To them, Meadowbrook—from its foundational Lower School through the Middle School where students learn to lead and advocate for themselves—is well worth their continued generosity. “Meadowbrook focuses on the whole child, not only challenging kids intellectually, but helping them grow psychologically, socially, emotionally,” says D’Ann. “The curriculum extends well beyond the classroom. Kids come out of there confident and resilient with lifelong problem-solving skills,” adds Don.
As a young couple, the Riemers were determined to provide their own children with an impactful education. “It’s so fundamental to the person one becomes.” With help from their parents, D’Ann and Don sent their children to excellent schools. “Giving to The Meadowbrook Fund is our way of paying it forward. It’s how we can support our daughter Rachel, her wife, Maria Graciela, along with our grandchildren, the same way our parents supported us. It’s also our way of saying we believe in Meadowbrook’s mission.”
Meadowbrook provides their grandchildren with an education they admire, in a community that makes D’Ann and Don feel at home: “As we have visited over the years, we have come to realize that Meadowbrook is one of the most welcoming places. The school makes sure that grandparents and grandfriends know they are an important part of students’ lives.”
An excellent education, a warm community, incredible outcomes—the returns on the Riemers’ investment in The Meadowbrook Fund are indeed tenfold. “Our Meadowbrook experience has been meaningful. We want to see the school continue its great work of fostering a love for learning among its students.”
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Sharon Palmer and Megan Rodriguez, 2nd Grade Teachers
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“When the development office can cite the high percentage of faculty philanthropic participation to families and potential donors, it shows how much we, the teachers, believe in Meadowbrook’s mission. It motivates our whole community to participate and give more,” says Meadowbrook faculty Megan Rodriguez.
Megan along with Sharon Palmer, both 2nd grade teachers, are major advocates for faculty giving and team up to inspire fellow faculty members to participate. “It just makes sense to give. Because of the support from our community, Meadowbrook has been able to undertake incredible initiatives and growth—it’s amazing. We have more curriculum offerings, wonderful professional development, and broader opportunities for students,” says Sharon. “Strong participation in annual giving enables us to add resources to our classrooms. Often teachers have to pay out of their pockets for classroom supplies. We don’t have to do that. We can beautify our spaces, and there’s a pride that comes with that,” adds Megan.
The two strongly believe that all dollar amounts matter: “It’s all about participation. It’s not necessarily about bringing wealth—it’s about bringing your spirit. Smaller gifts might seem inconsequential, but they make an impact,” says Sharon.
Plus, Sharon and Megan agree: Meadowbrook faculty love a reason to come together, accomplish a goal, and celebrate reaching it. “We are a goal-oriented community; if we set a goal, boy, do we want to hit it,” says Megan.
What better goal than to enrich the experience for an entire learning community? Gift by gift, Meadowbrook faculty are making it happen.Megan along with Sharon Palmer, both 2nd grade teachers, are major advocates for faculty giving and team up to inspire fellow faculty members to participate. “It just makes sense to give. Because of the support from our community, Meadowbrook has been able to undertake incredible initiatives and growth—it’s amazing. We have more curriculum offerings, wonderful professional development, and broader opportunities for students,” says Sharon. “Strong participation in annual giving enables us to add resources to our classrooms. Often teachers have to pay out of their pockets for classroom supplies. We don’t have to do that. We can beautify our spaces, and there’s a pride that comes with that,” adds Megan.
The two strongly believe that all dollar amounts matter: “It’s all about participation. It’s not necessarily about bringing wealth—it’s about bringing your spirit. Smaller gifts might seem inconsequential, but they make an impact,” says Sharon.
Plus, Sharon and Megan agree: Meadowbrook faculty love a reason to come together, accomplish a goal, and celebrate reaching it. “We are a goal-oriented community; if we set a goal, boy, do we want to hit it,” says Megan.
What better goal than to enrich the experience for an entire learning community? Gift by gift, Meadowbrook faculty are making it happen.
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Michelle and Harry Archerman, Parents
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Although Evelyn ’29, Michelle, and Harry Archerman are fairly new to Meadowbrook School (Evelyn started in 5th grade in 2025), they were ready and eager to get involved right away. With three sons currently attending Roxbury Latin, Michelle and Harry know independent schools and what makes a good school partner, so the family has become an integral part of the Meadowbrook community’s fabric. Between joining committees and volunteering at special events such as Fall Fest and Faculty Grazing Day, the Archermans have seen firsthand the impact giving time and resources can have on a school.
“Evelyn was already benefiting from Meadowbrook from her first day. If we were able to participate, why wait?”
To the Archermans, community building and community giving go hand in hand. “For us, volunteering was actually one of the easiest ways to meet people. If you’re standing next to another parent helping kids launch rockets or packing boxes together, you naturally start talking. Sometimes you just say yes once, and then one thing leads to another.”
One yes has turned into several: hosting a new family, serving as room parents, and giving to The Meadowbrook Fund. Each is a way of passing along what they received.
“We were lucky that people made us feel welcome very quickly. So if we can do a little of the same for another family, that makes us happy.”
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2025–26 Annual
Report of Giving
We are grateful to all of our donors who reaffirm their commitment to our school through their philanthropic gifts. We are pleased to present you with our annual report of giving for 2025–26, which celebrates the hundreds of gifts we received that made the school year another astounding success.
Each year, members of our community show their support for Meadowbrook by making generous donations to the school.
DONORS
Honoring our
DONORS
DONORS
DONORS
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The newly established Alma Gray Legacy Society recognizes a dedicated group of alumni, families, and friends who wish to make a lasting impact on Meadowbrook’s future by providing critical long-term funding for the school. When you make a gift to Meadowbrook through your will, retirement assets, insurance policy, or another planned giving vehicle, we honor your generosity and vision through automatic membership in The Alma Gray Legacy Society.
A planned or estate gift is a powerful demonstration of your belief in the importance of a Meadowbrook education. It can provide financial and tax benefits for you and your family. You can choose to make an unrestricted gift or to designate your planned gift for a particular passion area or purpose, including faculty support and professional development, financial assistance, student programming, and facilities.
Members of The Alma Gray Legacy Society help secure a brighter future for Meadowbrook and ensure that we will live our mission to know, love, and challenge generations of students to come.
For more information or to discuss opportunities to give through your estate, please contact Chief Advancement Officer Michele Daly at mdaly@meadowbrook-ma.org or 781-314-9228.
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The definition of “true blue” is somebody who is unwavering in their commitment and extremely loyal. Meadowbrook is lucky to have many members of its community who show their unwavering commitment through their financial support of the school. The True Blue Society honors those donors who have made gifts to Meadowbrook for at least five consecutive years. Throughout the lists above, members of the True Blue Society will be identified with stars based on their consecutive years of giving:
1 star = 5 years
2 stars = 10 years
3 stars = 15 years
4 stars = 20+ years.
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One group that has been particularly integral in Meadowbrook’s success is the Bridges Society. Members of the Bridges Society have given a lifetime total of $250,000 or more across many initiatives and have been leaders both in their philanthropy and their tireless volunteer efforts on behalf of the school.
Click the button for the full list of Bridges Society members.
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The 1923 Society celebrates Meadowbrook’s loyal and generous parents, alumni, grandparents, and friends who make an annual gift of $1,000 or more. Gifts are recognized at the following levels:
Founder: $100,000+
Trailblazer: $50,000 – $99,999
Innovator: $25,000 – $49,999
Groundbreaker: $10,000 – $24,999
Visionary: $5,000 – $9,999
Champion: $2,500 – $4,999
Explorer: $1,000 – $2,499
See the full list by clicking on the button.
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Every donor is essential to Meadowbrook’s pursuit of excellence in learning, in teaching, and in shaping the student experience today.
The Century Society recognizes annual gifts at the following levels:
Mentor: $250 – $999
Advocate: $1 – $249
See the full list by clicking on the button
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
2025–26
Brian Sung, President
Tim Mack, Vice President/Finance Chair
Jessica Nigrelli, Vice President
Tarja Vuolteenaho, Secretary
Vincent Montemaggiore, Treasurer
Geraldine Alias
Ethan Bernstein
Megan Craigen
Elaine Dimopoulos
Suzanne Foley
Nina Freeman
Ty Howton
Clara Jackson
Bryan Krause
David Newbower
Jon Nuger
Christopher Parris
Arathi Reddy
Rachel Riemer
Rudina Seseri
Kearney Shanahan
Ethan Thurow
100%
Board Participation
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THANK YOU
To all who made Meadowbrook a philanthropic priority this year, we send our sincere gratitude. By making donations to our school, you have helped our faculty fulfill our mission: to know, love, and challenge every child, so they can truly learn without limits. We have made every attempt to ensure the accuracy of the lists contained in this report. Please accept our sincere apologies and notify us of any errors or omissions by contacting the Advancement Office.