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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cornell University | $2,000,000 |
| Southern Maine Community College Foundation | $50,000 |
| Portland Stage Company | $32,500 |
| Mayo Street Arts | $22,000 |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $20,000 |
| Sunrise Opportunities | $10,000 |
| Doctors Without Borders USA | $10,000 |
| Kennebec Valley Dental Coalition DBA Waterville Community Dental Center | $10,000 |
| Foodlink Inc | $7,000 |
| Friends of Blaine House Inc | $5,000 |
| Saving Smiles Inc | $5,000 |
| Foodnet Meals on Wheels | $5,000 |
| Food Bank of Central New York | $5,000 |
| Grassroots International | $5,000 |
| FeedMore WNY | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
99 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Cornell University4× · 2020–2025 · $30M · revenue +46%- SMSOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +13%
- HCHealthReach Community Health Centers5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TFThe Foundation for Maine's Community Collegesone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -29%
- UWUnited Way of York Countyone grant, 2020 · $25k
- UWUNITED WAY OF TRI VALLY AREAone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To support maine physicians, advance the quality of medicine in maine, and promote the health of all maine people.
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
Advocate for maine people to be heard, respected, and well-served in a health system that provides coverage, access and quality, affordable care to all.
Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To build a permanent and powerful progressive movement in Maine. We will promote a healthy, just, equitable democracy through research, engagement, and education of Maine's citizens. We will engage in democracy expansion, voter engagement,…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Cei integrates financing, small business and industry expertise, and policy solutions to grow a vibrant future for people and communities in maine and rural regions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Androscoggin County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Build Health International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 148 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HealthReach Community Health Centers ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MAYO STREET ARTS ↗
- Who funds HEART OF MAINE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MID-COAST HEALTH NET INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF AROOSTOOK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANDROSCOGGIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds NUTRITION FOR THE ELDERLY IN TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PORTLAND COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MID-MAINE ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR CORTLAND COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROOME COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Maine's Community Colleges ↗
- Who funds FEEDMORE WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TOMPKINS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER PORTLAND LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF ITHACA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brooks Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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