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Frederic & Jane Brooks Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Frederic & Jane Brooks Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$482
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$100
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Human Services$186Food & Nutrition$150Youth Development$150Education$120Health$75Civil Rights$71Environment$25International$25Other$0
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$71
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEEDING AMERICA$100
Individual grant recipient$100
THE BREARLY$75
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$71
Individual grant recipient$50
HEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY$50
DOROT$36
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 (FY21–21, $36) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DOROT: $36 → 17%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.
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 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
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
2
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
3
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
4
Ability Beyond Disability

The mission of ability beyond is to discover, build, and celebrate the ability in all people. with approximately 1,100 full-time and part-time employees, ability beyond serves more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities each year.we…

Health
5
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Federation for American Immigration Reform

The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.

International
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Ability Beyond Disability Inc

The mission of ability beyond is to discover, build, and celebrate the ability in all people. with approximately 1,100 full-time and part-time employees, ability beyond serves more than 3,000 individuals with disabilities each year.we…

Human Services
11
The New York Gracie Square Hospital Inc

Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…

Health
12
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $175 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENWICH: $100 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENWICHIndividual grant recipient: $100 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHIRTEEN: $100 · OtherTHIRTEENAUTISM SERVICES & RESOURCES CONNECTICUT: $50 · OtherAUTISM SERVICES & RESOURCES CONNECTICUTHEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY: $50 · OtherHEBREW IMMIGRANT AID SOCIETY+8 more: $190 · Other+8 moreFeeding America: $100 · Food & NutritionFeeding Amer…THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $25 · Food & NutritionTHE FOOD BAN…THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $75 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $71 · Civil RightsDOROT INC: $36 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25 · InternationalAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $25 · Public BenefitGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $25 · Health
Other$765Food & Nutrition$125Education$75Civil Rights$71Human Services$36International$25Public Benefit$25Health$25

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENWICH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $71 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SERVICES & RESOURCES CONNECTICUT: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $36 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Frederic & Jane Brooks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frederic & Jane Brooks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 41%
  • Jewish Family Services of Greenwich: 41% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 22 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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