How much did BROOKS FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of BROOKS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

volunteer fireexemptfire deptwest deerdeer volunteerboy scoutslower burrell

2023

educationalyouth activitiesculturalwestmorelandrotary

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k14 grants · $42k
$10k–50k3 grants · $34k
$50k–250k1 grant · $102k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$406k

Total assets

Largest grants

WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE$102,000
INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$12,000
FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE$12,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA$10,000
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION$7,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL$6,500
CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF PA FOUNDATION$6,000
YOUNG LIFE$5,000
ROTARY FOUNDATION$4,000
REDSTONE PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE$2,500
FRANKLIN REGIONAL PANTHER FOUNDATION$2,500
GRANTS UNDER 500 PER RECIPIENT$1,722
WQED MULTIMEDIA$1,200
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA$1,000
MURRYSVILLE COMMUNITY LIBRARY$1,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0M · 19 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%

+44%

Still filing today

37%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther

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

WJ
WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE
3× · 2022–2024 · $106k · revenue +2%
FR
FRANKLIN REGIONAL PANTHER FOUNDATION
3× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +1%
ML
MIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA
2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +120%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY OF WESTMORELAND
one grant, 2023 · $10k
CA
CHARTER ARTS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -28%
FO
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
one grant, 2022 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

William Penn University

William penn university provides the opportunity for an educational experience with a focus on leadership, technology, and the quaker principles of simplicity, peace-making, intergrity, community and equality.

Education

Allegheny College

Four year institution of higher education.

Education

Monroe Township Volunteer Fire Dept

To fight fires, maintain fire fighting equipment, and otherwise provide fire protection and fire prevention services.

Public Safety & Disaster

Lawrence Park Volunteer Fire Department

Providing emergency, safety and fire services to lawrence park township pennsylvania.

Public Safety & Disaster

University of Lynchburg

The University of Lynchburg, established in 1903, is a comprehensive private university in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. With over 100 undergraduate majors, minors, and certificate programs, 15 master's programs, and…

Education

Lancaster Township Fire Department

Fire protection for lancaster township, pa.

Public Safety & Disaster

Lower Macungie Fire Department

To provide fire protection and fire rescue services to lower macungie township and surrounding areas.

Public Safety & Disaster

Plymouth Fire Company # 1

Volunteer fire company plymouth township, montgomery county, pennsylvania

Public Safety & Disaster

Wartburg College

Wartburg college provides educational programs and experiences that challenge and nurture students for lives of leadership and service as a spirited expression of their faith and learning.

Education

Franklin Twp Volunteer Fire Department

To provide fire protection and emergency services for Franklin Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania

Public Safety & Disaster

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

As the first art museum and school in the us, pafa celebrates the transformative power of art and art-making.

Education

Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department

Fire protection and prevention, rescue operations, property conservation, fire education and basic life support

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Franklin & Marshall College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/23

the rest of the field

755/12,126

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

16/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$904,265Education$145,675Philanthropy$28,500Youth Development$7,000Human Services$3,500Recreation & Sports$2,500Public Safety & Disaster$2,000

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS TO FRIENDS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 233019409 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS TO FRIENDS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Brooks Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brooks Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BROOKS FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Brooks Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BROOKS FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Brooks Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph