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Brooks Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$232k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$455kEducation$451kArts & Culture$317kReligion$163kHealth$153kRecreation & Sports$73kHousing & Shelter$61kYouth Development$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $194k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Learning Lamp$20,000
PITTSBURGH FILMMAKERS INC$20,000
WATER STREET MINISTRIES$17,200
HUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION$15,000
NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC$15,000
FAMILIES MATTER FOOD PANTRY$15,000
BOTTLE WORKSETHNIC ARTS CENTER$15,000
SAINT JOHNS HOSPICE$13,417
WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION$13,117
FEEDING THE SPIRIT$10,000
PITTSBURGH KIDS FOUNDATION INC$10,000
GRETNA PRODUCTIONS INC$10,000
PITTSBURGH YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH$10,000
SOCIETY TO PRESERVE THE MILLVALE MURALS$9,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Don Mills Achievement Center: $5k → 14%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $20k → 11%WATER STREET MINISTRIES: $17k → 9%GOOD KARMA GARAGE: $6k → 12%FAMILY GUIDANCE INC: $9k → 11%Lemoyne Community Center: $13k → 12%CHRISTIAN LAYMANS CORPS: $10k → 10%FOOTBRIDGE FOR FAMILIES INC: $10k → 11%NEW DAY INC: $15k → 16%FEEDING THE SPIRIT: $10k → 10%Bridges Cooperative Ministry: $15k → 16%VERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $17k → 11%BEVERLYS BIRTHDAYS: $23k → 10%VERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 11%BEVERLYS BIRTHDAYS: $15k → 10%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $13k → 10%EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH: $20k → 11%INVISION CUSTOMIZED SERVICES: $8k → 11%Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pit: $17k → 11%CORAOPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $13k → 11%BLESSING BOARD: $6k → 11%Holy Family Institute: $25k → 11%HUMAN SERVICES CENTER CORPORATION: $8k → 11%AMACHI PITTSBURGH: $19k → 11%RANKIN CHRISTIAN CENTER: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

18%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$387k · 13 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
113

Total granted

$387k
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IC
    IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $42k · revenue +43%
  • HL
    HUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $42k · revenue +12%
  • WM
    WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
    2× · 2019–2022 · $40k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $70k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE
    one grant, 2021 · $58k
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION
    one grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue -34%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Pittsburgh Council On Higher Education

To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.

Education
3
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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4
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
7
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…

Education
8
Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation

To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.

Arts & Culture
9
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…

Health
10
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
11
Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Inc

The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…

Arts & Culture
12
Pittsburgh Entertainment Project

To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Hills Community Outreach Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Bottleworks Inc Ethnic Arts Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

105 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 105 of the 144 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/105
Grantees still filing
69/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE: $57,747 · OtherCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $42,500 · OtherUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION: $37,500 · Other+70 more: $880,200 · Other+70 moreLA ROCHE UNIVERSITY: $48,589 · EducationLA ROCHE UNIVERSI…IMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $41,900 · EducationIMANI CHRISTIAN A…SOUTH HILLS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $27,455 · EducationSOUTH HILLS CATHO…THE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $20,591 · EducationTHE SEED SCHOOL O…CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 · EducationCARNEGIE LIBRARY …CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERSITYTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING LAMP…GENEVA COLLEGE: $18,280 · EducationGENEVA COLLEGELANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $15,000 · EducationPITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationPLUM BOROUGH COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $15,000 · EducationMANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE: $12,500 · Education+6 more: $50,780 · Education+6 moreBEVERLY'S PGH: $37,757 · Human ServicesBEVERLY'S PGHVERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $27,415 · Human ServicesVERLAND FOUNDATIO…HOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY INSTI…CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesCHALLENGED ATHLET…EMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesEMMAUS COMMUNITY …AMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $18,572 · Human ServicesAMACHI PITTSBURGH…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $17,253 · Human ServicesWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $17,200 · Human ServicesNEW DAY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $15,000 · Human ServicesLEMOYNE COMMUNITY CENTER: $12,500 · Human ServicesCORAOPOLIS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $12,500 · Human Services+10 more: $78,242 · Human Services+10 moreWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $40,000 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELA…RADIANT HALL STUDIOS: $17,500 · Arts & CultureRADIANT HA…PITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH…THE BOTTLEWORKS INC ETHNIC ARTS CENTER: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOTTLE…ACADEMY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY TH…KAMRATON: $12,912 · Arts & CultureKAMRATONCHATHAM BAROQUE INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureCHATHAM BA…MON VALLEY ACADEMY FOR THE ARTSINC: $12,400 · Arts & CultureMON VALLEY…WQED MULTIMEDIA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureART EXPRESSION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePRIME STAGE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFORT LIGONIER ASSOCIATION: $8,602 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMON GROUND PROJECT: $7,276 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $6,000 · Arts & CultureHUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $41,780 · Community ImprovementLITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA: $16,076 · Community ImprovementBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyLUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION: $15,394 · PhilanthropyFAMILIES MATTER FOOD PANTRY INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH HILLS AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $8,000 · PhilanthropyMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthACHIEVA: $11,412 · HealthLOST AND FOUND PHARMACY INC: $8,720 · HealthFaith & Gratitude Inc: $6,500 · HealthPROSTATE CANCER EDUCATION COUNCIL: $4,491 · HealthADOPTIONS TOGETHER INC DBA AS PATHS FOR FAMILIES: $1,874 · Health
Other$1,087,947Education$340,095Human Services$328,939Arts & Culture$202,190Community Improvement$72,856Philanthropy$63,394Health$47,997

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLA ROCHE UNIVERSITY: $48,589 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR CHRISTIAN OUTREACH: $42,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIMANI CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $41,900 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $41,780 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBEVERLY'S PGH: $37,757 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUNITED METHODIST CHURCH UNION: $37,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSOUTH HILLS CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $27,455 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVERLAND FOUNDATION INC: $27,415 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHALLENGE PROGRAM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPITTSBURGH NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE: $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH PENGUINS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOLY FAMILY INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF PHILADE OF PHILADELPHIA: $21,372 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $20,591 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF BUFFALO & WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING LAMP INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE-RICHLAND YOUTH CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEMMAUS COMMUNITY OF PITTSBURGH INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINDIANA COUNTY YMCA (5647): $19,653 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAMACHI PITTSBURGH INC: $18,572 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGENEVA COLLEGE: $18,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRADIANT HALL STUDIOS: $17,500 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $17,253 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATER STREET MINISTRIES: $17,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHORPOINT COUNSELING MINISTRY INC: $16,412 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF SOUTHWESTERN PA: $16,076 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetDELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $15,843 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetLOYALHANNA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $15,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLUTHERAN SENIORLIFE FOUNDATION: $15,394 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLANCASTER BIBLE COLLEGE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WESTERN PA CARES FOR KIDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetPITTSBURGH FESTIVAL OPERA: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPITTSBURGH URBAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRIDGEWAY CAPITAL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLUM BOROUGH COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACADEMY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEW DAY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSAMARITAN CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMANCHESTER ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGES COOPERATIVE MINISTRY: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetPITTSBURGH KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $14,286 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…Hillman Family Founda…The United Way of Sou…Eqt FoundationRichard King Mellon F…The Grable FoundationThe Heinz EndowmentsThe Jack Buncher Foun…McKinney Charitable F…Snee-Reinhardt Charit…Howard & Nell E Mille…Aj and Sigismunda Pal…
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA87.1× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brooks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brooks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: 16% of income from government
  • Hippodrome Foundation Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Students 2 Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Adoptions Together Inc Dba As Paths for Families: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 144 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home