Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Brooks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $232k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 94%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 94% of the organizations Brooks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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 | 21 | $232k | 86% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $246k | 94% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $217k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $255k | 85% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $251k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $234k | 89% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $267k | 88% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $223k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Roche University | $48,589 | 2 | 0% |
| Coalition for Christian Outreach | $42,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Imani Christian Academy | $41,900 | 2 | 1% |
| Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation Inc | $41,780 | 2 | 1% |
| Westmoreland Museum of American Art | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Beverly's Pgh | $37,757 | 2 | 1% |
| United Methodist Church Union | $37,500 | 1 | 5% |
| South Hills Catholic Academy | $27,455 | 1 | 1% |
| Verland Foundation Inc | $27,415 | 2 | 0% |
| The Challenge Program Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 111 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($512k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brooks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 96 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Grable Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · The Jack Buncher Foundation · McKinney Charitable Foundation · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Howard & Nell E Miller Foundat · Aj and Sigismunda Palumbo Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Brooks Foundation
- How much does Brooks Foundation give?
- Brooks Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $232,468 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Brooks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Brooks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: La Roche University ($49k), Coalition for Christian Outreach ($43k), Imani Christian Academy ($42k).
- Does Brooks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 94% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brooks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brooks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Hillman Family Foundations, The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
- Where is Brooks Foundation based?
- Brooks Foundation is based in PA.
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