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The Brookdale 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIFETIME ARTS | $65,000 |
| ARTIS NAPLES | $50,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC | $50,000 |
| TIMESLIPS CREATIVE STORYTELLING INC | $42,500 |
| GENERATIONS UNITED | $20,000 |
| TARNOFF ART CENTER | $20,000 |
| NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL OF DRAWING PAINTING AND SCULPTURE INC | $15,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| GERIATRIC SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SW FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVERS | $10,000 |
| THE HEBREW HOME AT RIVERDALE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $478k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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
- GUGENERATIONS UNITED INC5× · 2021–2025 · $133k · revenue +181%
- GSGERIATRIC SERVICES INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +9%
- CFCENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +124%
Funded once
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%- CHCHILDREN'S HOME NETWORKone grant, 2022 · $30k
- FBFOOD BANK OF NEW YORK CITY FOOD FOR SURVIVALone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
New york common pantry reduces hunger while promoting dignity, health and self-sufficiency.
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
Visions is a 98-year-old nonprofit vision rehabilitation and social service organization that trains low income people of all ages experiencing blindness and severe vision loss to lead independent and active lives at work, in their homes…
York county council on aging's (yccoa) mission is to serve as a focal point for the provision and coordination of a broad range of services and activities for senior adults in york and chester counties, sc. we strive to improve health and…
Enrich the lives of durham older adults 55+ by promoting healthy, active, and independent lifestyles.
Seniorsplus' mission is to enrich the lives of older adults, adults with disabilities, caregivers and family members by supporting their independence, dignity and quality of life. as both the agency on aging for androscoggin, franklin and…
The council of aging provides aging adults and their support system with services and opportunities that enable them to achieve an optimal, self defined, quality of life. this is achieved through the provision of education, nutrition…
We strive to maximize participation in, and support for, federally funded nutrition assistance programs including supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap), the school breakfast program and national school lunch program, the summer…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
To enrich the lives of seniors, children and their families, throughout our diverse communities. to promote healthy aging and provide social services to vulnerable and impoverished seniors.
To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…
The mission of the capital area food bank (the food bank or cafb) is to help our neighbors thrive by creating more equitable access to food and opportunity through community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is High Country Caregiver Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 27 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 BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF COLLIER INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LIFETIME ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds GERIATRIC SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF BONITA SPRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds The Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY CAREGIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds PASCACK VALLEY MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES 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: Ramapo Trust · Glendale Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Brookdale 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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