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Harold Brooks Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Harold Brooks Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$565k
Granted FY2023
23
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2023 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $475k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WELLSPRING INC$30,000
QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS$30,000
SOUTH SHORE YMCA$25,000
OLD COLONY YMCA$25,000
CHARITY GUILD INC$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOSTON ARCHDIOCESE$20,000
QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC$20,000
SOUTH SHORE STARS$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BROCKTON$20,000
WALKER INC THERAPEUTIC PROGRAMS$15,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 7%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $15k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $10k → 11%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD: $20k → 16%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $15k → 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $10k → 11%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD: $20k → 16%SOUTH SHORE STARS: $20k → 7%SOUTH SHORE STARS: $20k → 7%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $30k → 16%SOUTH SHORE STARS: $20k → 7%SOUTH SHORE STARS: $20k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $25k → 8%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $30k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $40k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $40k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $25k → 8%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $40k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $30k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $12k → 8%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $25k → 7%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $20k → 7%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $20k → 7%OLD COLONY YMCA: $25k → 8%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $20k → 7%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $15k → 7%OLD COLONY YMCA: $20k → 8%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $15k → 7%OLD COLONY YMCA: $15k → 8%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $10k → 7%OLD COLONY YMCA: $15k → 8%WELLSPRING INC: $30k → 8%WELLSPRING INC: $30k → 8%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 26 repeat orgs$605k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
25

Total granted

$1.7M
$515k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+98%

Still filing today

77%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $155k · revenue +18%
  • DI
    DOVE INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +167%
  • INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $150k · revenue +173%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • IS
    INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • DI
    DOVE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
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
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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2
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
5
Semcoa Inc Dba Southeast Massachusetts Council On Advocacy

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.

Unclassified
6
St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc

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,…

Unclassified
7
Southeastern Massachusetts Home Health Aides Inc

Homecare services and home health aide services.

Human Services
8
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
9
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
10
South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc

Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.

Health
12
Woburn Council of Social Concern Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 56 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
25/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOVE INC: $150,000 · OtherDOVE INCIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientQUINCY COMM ACTION PROGRAMS: $70,000 · OtherQUINCY COMM ACTION PROGRAMSTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC: $65,000 · OtherTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INCSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $40,000 · OtherDOVE INC: $40,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES SOUTH: $36,307 · Other+25 more: $510,000 · Other+25 moreINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INCQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INCSOUTH SHORE STARS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH SHORE STARS INCOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AS…South Shore Young Men's Christian Association: $62,000 · Human ServicesSouth Shore Young Men's Christian A…HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INCWELLSPRING INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING INCBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTE…MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesDignity Matters Inc: $30,000 · Human Services+3 more: $45,000 · Human Services+3 moreSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC: $155,000 · HealthCODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthMassasoit Community College Foundation Inc: $45,000 · EducationWALKER INC: $30,000 · EducationRAR-MA INC: $30,000 · EducationSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INC: $15,000 · EducationFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CHARITY GUILD INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,061,307Human Services$717,000Health$175,000Education$135,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Food & Nutrition$75,000

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 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
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 SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES 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 HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds Massasoit Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds WALKER INC ↗
  • Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
  • Who funds CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust Charit…South Shore Bank Char…Arbella Insurance Fou…Rockland Trust - Blue…Abington Bank Communi…The Harborone Foundat…United Way Of Massach…Brooks Grace E TrustLiberty Mutual Founda…Amelia Peabody Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harold Brooks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold Brooks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 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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