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Lee and Claudia Brooke Foundation at a glance

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Lee and Claudia Brooke Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Animals$34kArts & Culture$27kRecreation & Sports$15kEducation$14kHuman Services$12kCommunity Improvement$8kEnvironment$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$365k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC NORTHWEST WRITERS ASSOCIATION$5,800
ISLANDWOOD$3,000
BELLEVUE LIFESPRING$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY21–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $1k → 9%BELLEVUE LIFESPRING: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
WA
WY
CA
VA
NC
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Lee and Claudia Brooke Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 77% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 73%.

Lee and Claudia Brooke Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$65k · 10 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
15

Total granted

$65k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • TH
    THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2022 · $19k · revenue +13%
  • SV
    SEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACH
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +24%
  • SM
    SEATTLE MILK FUND INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • CA
    Challenge Alaska
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +5%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS MINISTRY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • AR
    ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
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
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
2
Long Live the Kings

Our mission is to restore wild salmon and steelhead & support sustainable fishing in the pacific northwest.

Animals
3
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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4
The Seattle Chapter American Institute of Archite

We champion the central role of architects in creating and sustaining a better built environment.

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5
Washington Coast Sustainable Salmon Foundation

The foundation board is comprised of members with diverse backgrounds and expertise who devote their shared commitment and passion to collectively support protection and restoration of the washington coast region salmon by providing…

Animals
6
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
7
Washington Water Trust

Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…

Environment
8
The Salish Sea School

The salish sea schools mission is to awaken curiosity and deepen connections with the sea through shore and sea exploration programs for all ages.

Environment
9
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
10
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
11
International Snow Leopard Trust

The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…

Animals
12
Dog Gone Seattle

Dog Gone Seattle is a Washington-based nonprofit organization dedicated to saving homeless dogs in high-kill shelters in Washington and beyond through rescue, foster, and adoption. We are a foster-based organization, and our rescue is 100%…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Northwest; the most unlike its peers is Life Spring. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Challenge Alaska: $15,000 · OtherChallenge AlaskaCORNISH COLLEGE OF ARTS: $15,000 · OtherCORNISH COLLEGE OF ARTSSEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACH: $8,000 · OtherSEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACHSEATTLE MILK FUND INC: $7,500 · OtherSEATTLE MILK FUND INCPACIFIC NORTHWEST WRITERS ASSOCIATION: $5,800 · OtherPACIFIC NORTHWEST WRITERS ASSOCIATIONHELPING HANDS MINISTRY: $5,000 · OtherHELPING HANDS MINISTRYLAKE WASHINGTON TECH FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherLAKE WASHINGTON TECH FOUNDATIONBATES TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherBATES TECH COLLEGE FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF HAWTHORNE ELEMENTARY: $4,000 · Other+5 more: $5,100 · Other+5 moreTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $18,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR…TROUT UNLIMITED INC: $3,000 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INCDOG IS MY COPILOT: $2,000 · AnimalsDOG IS MY COPILOTCHINA RESCUE DOGS INC: $2,000 · AnimalsCHINA RESCUE DOGS INCTown Hall Association: $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureDENSHO: $1,750 · Arts & CultureLITERARY SOCIETY OF THE DESERT: $1,400 · Arts & CultureISLANDWOOD: $3,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDENING ASSOC: $3,000 · EnvironmentACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER: $5,000 · EducationOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $4,000 · Human ServicesWILD TERRA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$75,400Animals$25,500Arts & Culture$10,150Environment$6,000Education$5,000Human Services$4,000Community Improvement$3,000

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 budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChallenge Alaska: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSEATTLE VETERINARY OUTREACH: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSEATTLE MILK FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTown Hall Association: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS SEATTLE CHAPTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILD TERRA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetISLANDWOOD: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDENING ASSOC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOG IS MY COPILOT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINA RESCUE DOGS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENSHO: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERARY SOCIETY OF THE DESERT: $1,400 over 4y, 28% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGREGATIONS FOR THE HOMELESS: $500 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Mightycause Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…
Seattle FoundationWA23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Lee and Claudia Brooke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lee and Claudia Brooke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • International Game Fish Association Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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