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Harold Brooks Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$565k
Granted FY2023
23
Grants FY2023
23
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$10M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Harold Brooks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202323$565k22%
FY202228$665k39%
FY201920$441k95%
FY201819$357k47%
FY201712$235kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$983kHealth$295kFood & Nutrition$255kHousing & Shelter$185kEducation$180kYouth Development$105kCommunity Improvement$80kCivil Rights$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($791k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harold Brooks Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Shore Hospital Inc: $155,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDove Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetInterfaith Social Services Inc: $150,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFather Bill's & Mainspring Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetQuincy Asian Resources Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSouth Shore Stars Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOld Colony Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetThe Charity Guild Inc: $65,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $62,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHealth Law Advocates Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWellspring Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMassasoit Community College Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetBoston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaria Droste Counseling Services Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWalker Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRar-Ma Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetQuincy Community Action Programs Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCodman Square Health Center Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchool on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEllie Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA44.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · The Harborone Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Brooks Grace E Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody 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.

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About Harold Brooks Foundation

How much does Harold Brooks Foundation give?
Harold Brooks Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $565,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Harold Brooks Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Health (6%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
Who are Harold Brooks Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: South Shore Hospital Inc ($155k), Dove Inc ($150k), Interfaith Social Services Inc ($150k).
Does Harold Brooks Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harold Brooks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harold Brooks Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Harold Brooks Foundation based?
Harold Brooks Foundation is based in TX.

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 56 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $610k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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