· Private foundation
Harold Brooks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k22 grants · $475k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC | $90,000 |
| DOVE INC | $40,000 |
| INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC | $40,000 |
| FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING | $30,000 |
| HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC | $30,000 |
| QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS | $30,000 |
| WELLSPRING INC | $30,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE YMCA | $25,000 |
| OLD COLONY YMCA | $25,000 |
| QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC | $20,000 |
| CHARITY GUILD INC | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE | $20,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE STARS | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROCKTON | $20,000 |
| DIGNITY MATTERS INC | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $717k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SSSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC2× · 2022–2023 · $155k · revenue +14%
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +173%- DIDOVE INC4× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- SSSOUTH SHORE HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $50k
- DIDOVE INCone grant, 2019 · $40k
- ISINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2019 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Semcoa's mission is to advocate for and provide support to individuals, families, and communities in the areas of substance use, mental illness, domestic violence, homelessness, and parenting.
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
Homecare services and home health aide services.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
To improve the quality of life of low-income and disadvantaged individuals and families by advocating for their needs and rights; providing services; educating the community; building a community of support; participating in coalitions…
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
Woburn Council of Social Concern (D.B.A. Council of Social Concern) is a charitable, community-based agency, responding to the basic needs of people of all ages, providing early childhood education and care, helping individuals develop…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc. 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.
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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 56 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE STARS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARITY GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds Massasoit Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper 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.
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
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 Harold Brooks Foundation 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.
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- South Shore Stars Inc — 54% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- South Shore Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc — 1% of income from government
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.