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Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$508k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$10MFood & Nutrition$7.0MHousing & Shelter$4.0MArts & Culture$3.8MPhilanthropy$3.7MEducation$3.5MCivil Rights$3.2MYouth Development$1.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $650k
  • $250k+12 grants · $5.1M
$275,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA YOUTH NETWORK DBA EMERGING STRONGER$507,500
MY FRIEND'S PLACE$505,000
FOOD FORWARD INC$500,000
CASA OF LOS ANGELES$500,000
NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC$500,000
JERICHO PROJECT$500,000
HOLA - HEART OF LOS ANGELES$500,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$400,000
COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA$300,000
BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION$300,000
PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS$300,000
CEDARS SINAI MED CTR$275,000
MAKE GOOD INC$200,000
CRISIS TEXT LINE INC$150,000
CHILDREN OF HEROES OF UKRAINE FOUNDATION$100,000
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOU GOTTA BELIEVE: $25k → 20%HAVEN ADOLESCENT COMMUNITY RESPITE CENTER: $25k → 14%COVER NOW FUND: $10k → 11%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $400k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $300k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $275k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $250k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $100k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $50k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%PARA LOS NINOS: $25k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $300k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $100k → 14%YOUNG EISNER SCHOLARS: $40k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 56 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

56 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
106

Total granted

$29M
$14M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+37%

Still filing today

70%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TL
    THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +236%
  • FF
    FOOD FORWARD INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +64%
  • CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • UD
    UCLA DEPRESSION GRAND CHALLENGE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC
    one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -68% · 27% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SABAN FREE CLINIC
    one grant, 2023 · $552k
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
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Cangress Dba Los Angeles Community Action Network

Community organizing, education, advocacy, leadership development, direct services and organizational development for communities faced with immense poverty.

Community Improvement
5
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

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6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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8
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
9
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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10
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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11
Los Angeles County Bar Association (Lacba)

Meeting the professional needs of los angeles lawyers, and improving the administration of justice.

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12
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voter Registration Project; the most unlike its peers is Malibu Friends of Music. 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

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 175 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/114
Grantees still filing
74/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLA - HEART OF LOS ANGELES: $2,428,305 · OtherHOLA - HEART OF LOS ANGELESLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $1,663,750 · OtherLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under LawSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,555,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHUCLA DEPRESSION GRAND CHALLENGE: $1,000,000 · OtherCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $1,150,000 · OtherJERICHO PROJECT: $1,310,000 · Other+104 more: $17,142,687 · Other+104 moreTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $2,686,320 · HealthTHE LOS ANGELES FREE…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,875,000 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL…BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $900,000 · HealthBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATIO…MAYO CLINIC: $757,500 · HealthMAYO CLINICMAKE GOOD INC: $575,000 · HealthMAKE GOOD INCNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $500,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIA…CRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $375,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $300,000 · Health+8 more: $551,000 · Health+8 moreFOOD FORWARD INC: $2,200,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $400,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $300,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $210,000 · Food & NutritionHOPEWELL FUND: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC: $600,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK CARES INC: $150,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $285,000 · PhilanthropyUCLA FOUNDATION: $823,372 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $470,000 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $250,000 · EducationEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $225,000 · EducationDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $200,000 · EducationWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $145,000 · EducationMEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA: $110,000 · Education826 National Inc: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $148,500 · EducationNational Vote At Home Institute: $1,000,000 · Civil RightsCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $750,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Civil RightsLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc: $100,000 · Civil RightsPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $170,000 · Civil RightsCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1,025,000 · Human ServicesPARA LOS NINOS: $450,000 · Human ServicesPATH: $300,000 · Human ServicesYoung Eisner Scholars: $140,000 · Human Services+6 more: $110,000 · Human Services
Other$26,249,742Health$8,519,820Food & Nutrition$3,110,000Philanthropy$2,535,000Education$2,471,872Civil Rights$2,245,000Human Services$2,025,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC: $2,686,320 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $2,200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $1,875,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $1,663,750 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $1,555,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $1,500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJERICHO PROJECT: $1,310,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $1,150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1,025,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $1,000,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION: $900,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $823,372 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $757,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES: $750,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $605,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC: $600,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMAKE GOOD INC: $575,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $505,347 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT: $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $470,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPARA LOS NINOS: $450,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBABY2BABY: $405,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC: $375,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County: $350,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $350,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCHILDREN OF HEROES OF UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetPATH: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA: $300,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $285,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMANECER COMMUNITY COUNSELING SERVICE A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $270,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERYBODY DANCE LA: $225,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $215,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY: $200,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTHE STARS OF TOMORROW PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC: $180,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNEW YORK CARES INC: $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetArt Division: $150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $145,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Eisner Scholars: $140,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $125,000 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.

  • Who funds THE LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds JERICHO PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds National Vote At Home Institute ↗
  • Who funds BEAUTY BUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds CASA OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE GOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds VOTER REGISTRATION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
  • Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS TEXT LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗

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.

California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Annenberg Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…Jewish Communal FundThe Broder FoundationThe David Geffen Foun…
California Community FoundationCA30.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Innocence Project of Florida Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Diane and Dorothy Brooks Foundation 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 175 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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