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The Brooke Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Environment$276kPhilanthropy$268kEducation$31kArts & Culture$23kHuman Services$23kReligion$12kAnimals$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k6 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALYS STEPHENS CENTER$12,250
FRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK$5,000
WHITBY SCHOOL INC$2,500
ALABAMA WALDORF SCHOOL$2,500
CHURCH TONIGHT MINISTRIES$1,500
MISSION WOLF$1,250
GIRLSPRING INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDLIFE: $1k → 8%TEACH FOR AMERICA - ALABAMA: $5k → 17%COOSA RIVERKEEPER: $10k → 7%ALABAMA OUTDOOR EDUCATION UNITED APPEAL FUND: $3k → 12%UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA: $81k → 16%FRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK: $10k → 17%WHITBY SCHOOL INC: $3k → 9%CHURCH TONIGHT MINISTRIES: $3k → 12%MISSION WOLF: $1k → 11%RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $188k → 16%SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $151k → 8%HEART OF AFRICA: $250 → 12%TEACH FOR AMERICA - ALABAMA: $5k → 17%ALABAMA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $4k → 7%BLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER: $81k → 16%FRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK: $10k → 17%CHURCH TONIGHT MINISTRIES: $2k → 12%HEART OF AFRICA: $250 → 12%ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION: $18k → 16%THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $5k → 16%THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $5k → 16%FRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK: $5k → 16%ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL: $500 → 16%GREATER BIRMINGHAM MINISTRIES: $5k → 16%MARANATHAN ACADEMY: $5k → 16%ALABAMA WALDORF SCHOOL: $3k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 16%GASP: $5k → 16%ALYS STEPHENS CENTER: $12k → 16%ALABAMA RIVERS ALLIANCE: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$70k · 6 repeat orgs$379k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$70k
$360k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+46%

Still filing today

50%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23
EnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $25k
  • AS
    ALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue -8%
  • TA
    THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $151k · revenue +46%
  • UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +21%
  • BW
    BLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +41%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Rivanna Conservation Alliance

Working with the community to conserve the rivanna river and its watershed through water quality monitoring, education, restoration, and stewardship.

Environment
2
Alabama Rural Electric Association of Cooperatives

A statewide trade association which serves as a resource through which its electric cooperative members are provided services for the continuation and advancement of the rural electrification program in Alabama.

3
Cahaba River Society Inc

Our mission to restore and protect the Cahaba River watershed and its rich diversity of life. The diverse lives depending on the river include the Cahaba's exceptional freshwater biodiversity and also the diverse residents of Birmingham,…

Community Improvement
4
Alabama Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils

Coordinate rc&d activity in alabama

Environment
5
Alabama Alliance Network

The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking

Public Benefit
6
Alabama Bankers Association Inc

To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.

7
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
8
Mobile Baykeeper Inc

Provide citizens a means to protect the beauty, health and heritage of the Mobile Bay Watershed, Alabamas waterways and coastal communities.

Environment
9
American River Conservancy

To conduct land conservation, stewardship and education in the upper american river and upper cosumnes river watersheds

Environment
10
Waterstep Inc

Waterstep focuses on providing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities in need around the world. its mission is rooted in the belief that safe water is a basic human right and a critical foundation for health,…

Youth Development
11
Wild South

We inspire people to enjoy, value and protect the wild character and natural legacy of the South.

Environment
12
Alabama Association of Conservation Districts Inc

The alabama association of conservation districts (aacd) is the unified voice of alabama's 67 conservation districts. organized as a 501(c)3, aacd works in cooperation with the alabama soil & water conservation committee, federal, state,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Warrior Riverkeeper Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mission Wolf. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $187,886 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable Foundation IncUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $80,521 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INCSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $150,880 · OtherSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTERFRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK INC — $25,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF HURRICANE CREEK INCALYS STEPHENS CENTER — $12,250 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $10,384 · OtherTEACH FOR AMERICA - ALABAMA — $10,278 · Other+7 more — $24,973 · Other+7 moreBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC — $80,521 · EnvironmentBLACK WARRIOR RIV…COOSA RIVERKEEPER INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentCOOSA RIVERKEEPER…Gasp — $5,000 · EnvironmentAlabama Rivers Alliance Inc — $4,500 · EnvironmentALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC — $19,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL — $10,500 · EducationTHE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $2,500 · EducationMISSION WOLF — $1,250 · AnimalsGIRLSPRING INC — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF AFRICIA INC — $500 · International
Philanthropy$268,407Other$233,765Environment$100,021Arts & Culture$19,000Education$13,000Animals$1,250Youth Development$1,000International$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc — $187,886 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $150,880 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC — $80,521 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK WARRIOR RIVERKEEPER INC — $80,521 over 1y, 17% of budgetALABAMA SYMPHONIC ASSOCIATION INC — $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ALTAMONT SCHOOL — $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOOSA RIVERKEEPER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetGasp — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAlabama Rivers Alliance Inc — $4,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE WHITBY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION WOLF — $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLSPRING INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF AFRICIA INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Stephens FoundationAL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stephens Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Arlington Partners Charitable Foundation Inc · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Brooke 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Brooke Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Brooke Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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