· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $254k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $222k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POWER | $98,444 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $65,702 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $57,503 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,105 |
| PITTSBURGH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $40,995 |
| YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $40,995 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $40,610 |
| PASSAVANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $24,707 |
| UPMC MERCY | $24,707 |
| MAGEE-WOMENS HOSPITAL | $24,707 |
| WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $16,453 |
| LAGHEY CHURCH | $8,309 |
| FAMILY RESOURCES | $8,254 |
| ST BARNABAS CHARITABLE FDN | $8,254 |
| THE CHILDRENS INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH | $8,254 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $364k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH5× · 2021–2025 · $284k · revenue +53%
- PHPASSAVANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $240k · revenue +497%
- WPWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF7× · 2019–2025 · $160k · revenue +31%
Funded once
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.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The chambersburg hospital is a regional non-profit health care organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
To heal. to teach. to empower. to amaze.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Waynesboro hospital is a regional nonprofit healthcare organization committed to the improvement of the health and well-being of the people in southcentral pennsylvania.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
To empower children, adults and families by providing transformational quality whole person care.
Gettysburg hospital is a tax-exempt organization dedicated to providing high quality health care services for the people who live, work, travel through, and vacation in adams county, pennsylvania and northern maryland.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds PASSAVANT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds STBARNABAS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIGONIER CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brooks Charles for Charities funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brooks Charles for Charities. Bigger dots raise more.
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