· Public charity
Brooks Gives Back Inc
Brooks Gives Back is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that serves as the vehicle by which all members of the Brooks community can invest in nonprofit initiatives impacting people in the neighborhoods surrounding Brooks.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Clubs of San Antonio | $50,000 |
| Ride Connect Texas | $35,000 |
| Vibrant Works | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +18%
- SOSOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLE4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +66%
- SASAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SASOMERSET ACADEMY INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -14%
- CRCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- SASan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
San antonio foster care and adoption services inc. is a licensed child placement agency in the state of texas. the organization cares for children placed in foster care by the state of texas.
To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.
San antonio preparatory charter school provides a college preparaory education through high quality instruction and rigorous curriculum inside a challenging and supportive learning environment ensuring all students can learn, grow, and…
To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.
Partner with families to provide students a christ-centered education while fostering a life of faith and service. the school desires to associate with like-minded teachers, administrators, staff, parents, and students to communicate the…
Child Advocacy
To educate qualified individuals of public benefits that they may be entitled to. we accomplish this by working with local city, state, and federal agencies for the purpose of outreach and verification work. recently we have focused mainly…
To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.
To provide a neutral, child friendly organization that facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to the investigation, intervention and treatment of child abuse.
Children's advocacy centers of texas, inc. (cactx) is the statewide organization for its 70 children's advocacy centers (cac's) across texas. cactx leads efforts, in partnership with investigatory and prosecution agencies, to pursue…
To provide services which focus on nourishing lives, enabling independence and caring for the most frail and isolated residents in the greater san antonio region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presa Community Service Center and the most unlike its peers is Any Baby Can of San Antonio Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PRESA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education 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: San Antonio Area Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation Group Return · The Charity Ball Association of San Antonio Inc · St Luke's Lutheran Health Ministries Inc · John L Santikos Charitable Foundation · Harvey E Najim Charitable Foundation · United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County · Keith M Orme and Pat Vigeon Orme Charitable Foundation · Spurs Give · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · San Antonio Food Bank
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 Gives Back Inc 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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