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Brooks Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| SLIPPERY ROCK UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- WJWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $106k · revenue +16%
- FMFRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +2%
- MTMINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF WESTMORELANDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CACHARTER ARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -82%
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.
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Public lending library
Public lending library
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Delaware County Detachment Marine Corps League 288. 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 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 55 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 WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MINSI TRAILS COUNCIL #502 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Franklin Regional Panther Foundation ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL MURRYSVILLE EXPORT ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds CHARTER ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDSTONE PRESBYTERIAN SENIORCARE ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF WESTERN PA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS TO FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds MURRYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SETON HILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Murrysville Community Library ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS CONSERVANCY 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: Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Ppl Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 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.
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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