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English Family Foundation Co Amie Brooks

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$96k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Arts & Culture$128kEnvironment$121kPhilanthropy$97kHealth$93kAnimals$78kYouth Development$75kFood & Nutrition$56kEducation$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $69k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$2,062
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$15,000
FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL EASTERN NC$12,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION$7,000
MARYLAND FOOD BANK$6,898
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND$5,000
CHESAPEAKE BAY ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$4,000
CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$4,000
SAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WALFARE SOCI$3,000
SAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION$3,000
SPCA OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY$3,000
FRIENDS OF QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY LIBR$2,500
MID-SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,062
FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 13%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $14k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $3k → 5%Canine Companions for Independence: $4k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 15%HEINZERLING FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
OH
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$598k · 46 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
53

Total granted

$598k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+21%

Still filing today

61%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther

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

  • PP
    PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $69k · revenue +14%
  • CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $51k · revenue +1%
  • FC
    FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS
    5× · 2017–2022 · $36k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • SG
    Saving Grace Animals up for Adoption
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • HC
    HEINZERLING COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +71%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

2
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
3
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
4
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
5
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
6
Colorado Open Lands

Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.

Environment
7
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
10
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
11
Zoological Society of Pittsburgh

The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…

Animals
12
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Minorities in Aquaculture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#26#3#24#7#29#22#11#20#0
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%14%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/60
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,505

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 111 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/58
Grantees still filing
40/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY — $33,000 · OtherFRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORYTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $31,898 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCCHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $21,400 · OtherCHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $19,130 · OtherCHESAPEAKE BAY ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $17,500 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $15,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS — $12,500 · OtherTrails and Open Space Coalition — $16,787 · Other+65 more — $195,133 · Other+65 morePIKES PEAK UNITED WAY — $69,000 · PhilanthropyPIKES PEAK UNITED WAYCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $59,000 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $33,062 · PhilanthropyMID SHORE COMMUNITY F…Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute — $59,055 · Arts & CultureRocky Mountain W…FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $35,800 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN COUNTY …SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $10,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INST…BALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGREEN LAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $6,750 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $50,800 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAK…THE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 · EnvironmentTHE SEVER…MINORITIES IN AQUACULTURE — $4,000 · EnvironmentMINORITIE…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL …EARTHJUSTICE — $3,000 · Environment+2 more — $2,000 · EnvironmentPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $19,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $17,500 · HealthCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC — $7,490 · HealthCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $5,550 · HealthTALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $2,000 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD INC — $12,575 · AnimalsSAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $10,501 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $4,570 · AnimalsNEUSE RIVER GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC — $3,010 · AnimalsSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION — $3,000 · Animals+6 more — $4,600 · AnimalsCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $24,840 · Human ServicesHEINZERLING COMMUNITY — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$362,348Philanthropy$161,062Arts & Culture$121,605Environment$71,800Health$51,790Animals$38,256Human Services$29,840

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPIKES PEAK UNITED WAY — $69,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRocky Mountain Womens Film Institute — $59,055 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION — $59,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $50,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS — $35,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $33,062 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC — $31,898 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $24,840 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $21,400 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC — $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrails and Open Space Coalition — $16,787 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD INC — $12,575 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC — $10,501 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $10,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE INC — $7,490 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION — $5,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET METROPOLITAN INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEINZERLING COMMUNITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITABLE PHARMACY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $4,570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN LAWN CEMETERY FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC — $4,290 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF CENTRAL OHIO — $3,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEUSE RIVER GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE INC — $3,010 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL OHIO INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING GRACE ANIMALS FOR ADOPTION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANNAPOLIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $2,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Springs Utilities Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLUMBUS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR THE CHESAPEAKE BAY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUDE RANCH ANIMAL RESCUE INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColorado Springs Fine Arts Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW DIRECTIONS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIGI'S SHELTER FOR DOGS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNAPOLIS SUMMER GARDEN THEATRE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATIONAL THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC — $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 PIKES PEAK UNITED WAY
  • Who funds Rocky Mountain Womens Film Institute
  • Who funds COLUMBUS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA COSI COLUMBUS
  • Who funds MID SHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC
  • Who funds Trails and Open Space Coalition
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY MD INC
  • Who funds SAN LUIS VALLEY ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
  • Who funds THE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC
  • Who funds HEINZERLING COMMUNITY
  • Who funds CHARITABLE PHARMACY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC

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.

Community Foundation of Anne Arundel CoMD23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 3 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Anne Arundel Co · Columbus Foundation · L Brands Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Safelite Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · M I Homes 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 English Family Foundation Co Amie Brooks 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 17%
  • Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Inc28% of income from government
  • Talisman Therapeutic Riding Inc25% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc17% of income from government
  • The Maryland Food Bank Inc11% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to English Family Foundation Co Amie Brooks?

Find your warmest path to English Family Foundation Co Amie Brooks 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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