California · Private foundation
Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation
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.
- $5.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $275,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $507,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 69
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $66M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $5.8M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $6.5M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $12M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $5.6M | 49% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $9.2M | 75% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.9M | 56% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $1.5M | 58% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Los Angeles Free Clinic | $2,686,320 | 5 | 3% |
| Food Forward Inc | $2,200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $1,875,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law | $1,663,750 | 3 | 2% |
| Share Our Strength | $1,555,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Jericho Project | $1,310,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Clean Air Task Force Inc | $1,150,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Covenant House California | $1,025,000 | 4 | 2% |
| National Vote At Home Institute | $1,000,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Beauty Bus Foundation | $900,000 | 2 | 50% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($14M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 105 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Broder Foundation · The David Geffen Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation with peer funders
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About Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation
- How much does Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation give?
- Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $5,815,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 69 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (21%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Los Angeles Free Clinic ($2.7M), Food Forward Inc ($2.2M), Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ($1.9M).
- Does Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation based?
- Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation is based in CA.
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