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Brooks Charles for Charities

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$550k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$24,707
Largest grant, FY2025
$98,444
Organizations funded a year
19 to 20
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$12M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Brooks Charles for Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$550k0%
FY202420$580k0%
FY202320$607k0%
FY202219$1.1M0%
FY202120$1.0M15%
FY202020$980k0%
FY201920$562kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$1.0MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$510kEducation$399kPhilanthropy$82kEmployment$80kRecreation & Sports$80kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$639,0847n/a
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer$398,7567n/a
Upmc$289,1207n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh$283,96150%
Boy Scouts of America$281,29457%
Passavant Hospital Foundation$240,32672%
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf$160,03970%
Stbarnabas Charitable Foundation$82,30270%
Chatham University$82,30270%
Ligonier Camp & Conference Center$80,28771%
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All grantees of Brooks Charles for Charities by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Salvation Army$639,0847n/a
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer$398,7567n/a
Upmc$289,1207n/a
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh$283,96150%
Boy Scouts of America$281,29457%
Passavant Hospital Foundation$240,32672%
Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf$160,03970%
Stbarnabas Charitable Foundation$82,30270%
Chatham University$82,30270%
Ligonier Camp & Conference Center$80,28771%
Family Resources$80,28770%
The Children's Institute of Pittsburgh$75,93170%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brooks Charles for Charities supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Pittsburgh: $283,961 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBoy Scouts of America: $281,294 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetPassavant Hospital Foundation: $240,326 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetWestern Pennsylvania School for the Deaf: $160,039 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetStbarnabas Charitable Foundation: $82,302 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetChatham University: $82,302 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLigonier Camp & Conference Center: $80,287 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFamily Resources: $80,287 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Institute of Pittsburgh: $75,931 over 7y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 Pittsburgh FoundationPA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35 · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Mason Martha Lockhart · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

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About Brooks Charles for Charities

How much does Brooks Charles for Charities give?
Brooks Charles for Charities reported 20 grants totaling $550,269 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Brooks Charles for Charities fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Human Services (19%), Health (19%).
Who are Brooks Charles for Charities's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Salvation Army ($639k), Pittsburgh Theological Seminary of the Utd Preby Chrc Utd Sts Amer ($399k), Upmc ($289k).
Does Brooks Charles for Charities fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brooks Charles for Charities accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brooks Charles for Charities?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, M L Mason Mem Fund 12-26-35, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Where is Brooks Charles for Charities based?
Brooks Charles for Charities is based in PA.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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