· Private foundation
Brooks McCormick Jr Trust for Animal Rights Law and Policy
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of BROOKS MCCORMICK JR TRUST FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS LAW AND POLICY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $793k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROOKS INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS LAW AND POLICY INC | $2,900,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL - ANIMAL LAW & POLICY PROGRAM | $591,000 |
| VERMONT LAW SCHOOL | $248,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $190,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $135,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF LAW OF LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE | $120,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS | $30,000 |
| OUR HEN HOUSE | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | $17,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- BIBROOKS INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS LAW AND POLICY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $13M · revenue +62% · 100% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER4× · 2020–2024 · $952k · revenue +22%
- ALANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC3× · 2019–2022 · $708k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- OCOUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +64%
- FOFRIENDS OF WYCLIFFE HALLone grant, 2023 · $175k
- EFExotic Feline Rescue Centergraduatedone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +33%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern University and the most unlike its peers is Creaturekind. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
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 BROOKS INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL RIGHTS LAW AND POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Vermont Law School ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH COMMUNITY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds Exotic Feline Rescue Center ↗
- Who funds OUR HEN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CREATUREKIND ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds GRADUATE THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 McCormick Jr Trust for Animal Rights Law and Policy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Law School — 14% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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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