Wisconsin · Private foundation
The Brookby Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 151
- Grants FY2024
- 143
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 163
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 6% of the organizations The Brookby Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 144 | $3.5M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 143 | $3.1M | 6% |
| FY2022 | 151 | $3.2M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 142 | $3.0M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 143 | $2.3M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 136 | $2.4M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 163 | $2.7M | 69% |
| FY2017 | 74 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon Symphony Association | $3,048,467 | 8 | 4% |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $1,485,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Dairy Grazing Alliance Inc | $1,125,000 | 7 | 24% |
| Urban Ecology Center Inc | $1,005,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy | $800,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Leelanau Conservancy | $610,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Mote Marine Laboratory Inc | $575,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Conservation Voices Inc | $500,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Alliance for the Great Lakes | $500,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest | $480,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 210 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Brookby Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Frey Foundation · Windward Fund · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Grand Rapids Community Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Wege Foundation · Oleson Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Patagoniaorg · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Brookby Foundation
- How much does The Brookby Foundation give?
- The Brookby Foundation reported 151 grants totaling $3,464,606 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 163 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Brookby Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (39%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Brookby Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Symphony Association ($3.0M), The Uwm Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Dairy Grazing Alliance Inc ($1.1M).
- Does The Brookby Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brookby Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Brookby Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, Frey Foundation, Windward Fund.
- Where is The Brookby Foundation based?
- The Brookby Foundation is based in WI.
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