Massachusetts · Private foundation
Brooks Family Foundation
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.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 108
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $18M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Brooks Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $2.2M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $764k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $3.6M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $573k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 83 | $26M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 108 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $30,015,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Southern Maine Community College Foundation | $330,000 | 6 | 11% |
| HealthReach Community Health Centers | $300,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Portland Stage Company | $202,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $170,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mayo Street Arts | $123,500 | 6 | 9% |
| Heart of Maine United Way | $100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| United Way Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mid-Coast Health Net Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Oasis Health Network Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 117 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($475k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brooks Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 107 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Legacy Foundation of Tompkins County · Davis Family Foundation · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Park Foundation Inc · United Way Inc · United Way of Tompkins County Inc
How this is measured
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About Brooks Family Foundation
- How much does Brooks Family Foundation give?
- Brooks Family Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $2,243,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 108 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Brooks Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (90%), Health (2%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are Brooks Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cornell University ($30M), Southern Maine Community College Foundation ($330k), HealthReach Community Health Centers ($300k).
- Does Brooks Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brooks Family Foundation 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 Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Sam L Cohen Foundation, Community Foundation of Tompkins County Inc.
- Where is Brooks Family Foundation based?
- Brooks Family Foundation is based in MA.
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