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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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Human Services$310kYouth Development$165kEmployment$95kCrime & Legal$40kFood & Nutrition$40kEducation$30k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$411k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Antonio$50,000
Ride Connect Texas$35,000
Vibrant Works$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Ride Connect Texas: $35k → 16%Ride Connect Texas: $35k → 16%Ride Connect Texas: $25k → 16%The Children's Shelter: $20k → 16%The Children's Shelter: $20k → 16%Ride Connect Texas: $20k → 16%Any Baby Can of San Antonio Inc: $35k → 16%Any Baby Can of San Antonio Inc: $35k → 16%Any Baby Can of San Antonio Inc: $25k → 16%San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind: $25k → 16%San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind: $25k → 16%Vibrant Works: $25k → 16%Presa Community Service Center: $20k → 16%Presa Community Service Center: $20k → 16%San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind and Vision Impaired: $20k → 16%Presa Community Service Center: $20k → 16%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$650k · 8 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$650k
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO
    4× · 2022–2025 · $165k · revenue +18%
  • SO
    SOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +66%
  • SA
    SAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND
    4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • SA
    SOMERSET ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -14%
  • CR
    COMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • SA
    San Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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
San Antonio Foster Care and Adoption and Services

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.

Human Services
2
Communities in Schools of San Antonio

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.

Education
3
San Antonio Preparatory Charter School

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…

Education
4
San Antonio Council On Alcohol and Drug Awareness

To provide alcohol and drug use prevention, intervention and recovery services to children, youth and adults in the community.

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5
San Antonio Christian School

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…

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6
Tennis Officials of San Antonio Association
Recreation & Sports
7
Casa of South Texas Inc

Child Advocacy

Human Services
8
Advocates Social Services of San Antonio Texas

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…

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9
Texas Casa Inc

To promote and develop local court-appointed special advocates programs throughout texas.

Civil Rights
10
Children's Alliance of South Texas

To provide a neutral, child friendly organization that facilitates a multi-disciplinary approach to the investigation, intervention and treatment of child abuse.

Crime & Legal
11
Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
12
Meals On Wheels San Antonio

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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presa Community Service Center; 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.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $115,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLEANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INCSAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $95,000 · Human ServicesSAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLINDPRESA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $60,000 · Human ServicesPRESA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN AN…MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $40,000 · Food & NutritionCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $40,000 · Civil RightsSOMERSET ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$405,000Youth Development$165,000Food & Nutrition$40,000Civil Rights$40,000Education$20,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAN ANTONIO: $165,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST OUTREACH FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $115,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetANY BABY CAN OF SAN ANTONIO INC: $95,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSAN ANTONIO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRESA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES SAN ANTONIO: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S SHELTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOMERSET ACADEMY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS ROSE EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Antonio Foundation for Excellence in Education Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

San Antonio Area Foun…San Antonio Area Foun…The Charity Ball Asso…St Luke's Lutheran He…John L Santikos Chari…Harvey E Najim Charit…United Way of San Ant…Keith M Orme and Pat …Spurs GivePryor Myra Stafford C…Faye L & William L Co…San Antonio Food Bank
San Antonio Area FoundationTX21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gives Back Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brooks Gives Back Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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.
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    How do I get to Brooks Gives Back Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Brooks Gives Back Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 11 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 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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