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Brooke Family Foundation

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.

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$198kEducation$180kReligion$115kHuman Services$20kHealth$13kArts & Culture$5kInternational$4kScience & Tech$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$181k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$70,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA$50,000
WOODLAWN UNITED FOUNDATION$40,000
YMCA$20,000
MOUNTAIN BROOK CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$5,000
WILCOX EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
PARKINSONS ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA$5,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NOVO MISSION: $50k → 10%ALLEGRO SOLUTIONS: $4k → 16%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $58k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $70k → 17%LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY RETREAT: $3k → 13%YMCA: $20k → 14%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $50k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $70k → 17%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $50k → 16%THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $30k → 17%CRESTLINE COUGARS PTO: $5k → 16%MOUNTAIN BROOK CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50k → 16%COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15k → 16%JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM: $3k → 16%MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $3k → 16%WOODLAWN UNITED FOUNDATION: $40k → 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.
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$403k · 4 repeat orgs$144k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
8

Total granted

$403k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
PhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $170k
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $158k · revenue +19%
  • CP
    COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2023 · $65k

Funded once

  • NM
    NOVO MISSION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • RM
    RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
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
Boys & Girls Club of North Alabama

Inspire and enable young people to reach potential.

Youth Development
2
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
3
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
4
The Alabama Center for Law and Civic Education

The mission of ACLCE is to prepare youth to become active, engaged, and informed participants in a democratic society.

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5
Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives

A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.

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6
American Productivity & Quality Center Inc

See Schedule O. The mission of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) is to educate and broadly share information with people and organizations around the world to improve productivity and quality by:- Discovering, researching…

Community Improvement
7
Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Ala

To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.

Health
8
Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

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9
Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce

To serve our members and partners by improving the quality of life through regional economic prosperity.

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10
Alabama Lions Sight Association Inc

The Association's Mission is to fund quality eye treatment for the medically indigent of Alabama. Services provided include providing glasses, surgeries, anesthesia, medically necessary contact lenses, prosthesis, tests and eye medication.

Health
11
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
12
Chamber of Comm Executives Assoc of Alabama Inc

To build a better alabama through stronger chambers of commerce

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Alabama Inc; the most unlike its peers is Allegro Organizational Solutions 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

8 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. 8 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $170,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMACOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $65,000 · OtherCOVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHNOVO MISSION INC: $50,000 · OtherNOVO MISSION INCWOODLAWN UNITED FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherWOODLAWN UNITED FOUNDATIONYMCA: $20,000 · OtherYMCA+3 more: $15,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $157,733 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INCPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA I…Mountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $5,000 · EducationALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $3,500 · InternationalJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $2,500 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $2,500 · HealthMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$360,000Philanthropy$167,733Education$5,000International$3,500Community Improvement$2,500Youth Development$2,500Health$2,500Arts & Culture$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $157,733 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALABAMA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLighthouse Family Retreat Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Hackney FoundationThe Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Dunn-French FoundationAltecstyslinger Found…Natl Christian Charit…Enterprise Holdings F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Hackney FoundationAL15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hackney Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Dunn-French Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Brooke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brooke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Brooke Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Brooke Family Foundation 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 16 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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