North Carolina · Private foundation
Brooks Family Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $495k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Brooks Family Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $495k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $425k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $460k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $550k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $403k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Paso Symphony Orchestra Assoc Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 4% |
| El Paso Pro-Musica | $225,000 | 4 | 18% |
| Animal Rescue League of El Paso Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 7% |
| El Paso Matters Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Dogbreath Express | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pet Guardian Angel Welfare Association Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
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 Hunt Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Brooks Family Foundation Trust
- How much does Brooks Family Foundation Trust give?
- Brooks Family Foundation Trust reported 8 grants totaling $495,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Brooks Family Foundation Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (68%), Animals (18%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Brooks Family Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: El Paso Symphony Orchestra Assoc Inc ($225k), El Paso Pro-Musica ($225k), Animal Rescue League of El Paso Inc ($110k).
- Does Brooks Family Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brooks Family Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brooks Family Foundation Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hunt Family Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Brooks Family Foundation Trust based?
- Brooks Family Foundation Trust is based in NC.
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