· Private foundation
Brookwood Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+1 grant · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WI PARKSIDE | $425,000 |
| KENOSHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| SHORELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL FEDERATION INC | $75,000 |
| NEW LIFE ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH DEERFIELD | $35,050 |
| OZAUKEE LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| NEW LIFE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| CHRISTIANS FORWARD SE ASIA | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM FELLOWSHIP | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF KENOSHA | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SLSHORELAND LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL FEDERATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WI PARKSIDE4× · 2022–2025 · $915k
- CPCHIWAUKEE PRAIRIE PRESERVATION FUND INC5× · 2019–2023 · $250k · revenue +45% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- TPTHE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +60%
- NYNEW YORK UNIVERSITY - TANDON SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2018 · $50k
- FLFOUNDATION LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $27k
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.
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.
provide career-based technical education to students in grades 9 -12
Educational.
The Cedarburg Education Foundation provides a means for schools individuals and businesses to work together to help students achieve their potential by providing financial support through private funding.
To provide waldorf elementary education for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in viroqua, wisconsin.
Kenosha area business alliance foundation, inc. develops education initiatives with local kenosha schools to increase graduation rates, improve the overall quality of education, and foster the best educational system in the state.
Kenosha christian academy is a private school that will provide a classical christian education to the children of kenosha's central city neighborhoods, in hopes of forming students, families, and staff who love god and neighbor.
Academic excellence in an atmosphere of christian love. celebration lutheran school provides christian education to students in preschool (3yr) through grade 8.
The foundation's mission is to help achieve and maintain an extra margin of excellence by employing private resources to supplement traditional school funding.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CHIWAUKEE PRAIRIE PRESERVATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KENOSHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP AND READ ↗
- Who funds THE BEN INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AVIATORS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF KENOSHA ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brookwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brookwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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