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The Brooks Family Foundation Inc

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.

$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$41k
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 FY20212024.

Philanthropy$2.0MHealth$69kArts & Culture$31kCivil Rights$18kEnvironment$15kFood & Nutrition$15kHousing & Shelter$15kEducation$2k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$41,324
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKS FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND$41,324
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $9k → 17%A FREE BIRD CORPORATION: $2k → 20%PALM BEACH DRAMA WORKS: $1k → 11%AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION BROOKS FAMILY DAF: $1.9M → 13%DR LENA EDWARDS ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $1k → 14%COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $6k → 17%A FREE BIRD CORPORATION: $1k → 20%PALM BEACH DRAMA WORKS: $500 → 11%BROOKS FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $41k → 13%DR LENA EDWARDS ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $500 → 14%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8k → 17%PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION DUNCAN THEATRE: $1k → 11%LUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%COOPER UNION: $15k → 17%COOPER UNION: $10k → 17%BEAUTY FOR FREEDOM: $2k → 17%BEAUTY FOR FREEDOM: $1k → 17%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $9k → 17%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $9k → 17%CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%RAINFOREST ALLIANCE: $9k → 17%RAINFOREST ALLIANCE: $6k → 17%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.

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$161k · 14 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$161k
$1k

Still filing today

86%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’24
HealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalCivil RightsEducationOther

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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +9%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +26%
  • RA
    RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • PB
    PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION DUNCAN THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

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
Rainforest Alliance Holding Inc

RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.

Environment
2
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
American Lung Association

The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.

Health
5
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
6
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
7
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

The lustgarten foundation is the largest private funder of pancreatic cancer research in the world. see schedule o.the lustgarten foundation is boldly leading the way through hope and innovation, turning fear into action through education…

Human Services
10
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
11
Friedreich's Ataxia Research Alliance

To marshal and focus the resources and relationships needed to cure fa by raising funds for research, promoting public awareness and aligning scientists, patients, clinicians, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies dedicated to…

Health
12
The Foundation for Aids Research

Amfar is dedicated to ending the global aids epidemic through innovative research. (see schedule o)

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rainforest Alliance 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $1,934,377 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONBROOKS FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND — $41,324 · OtherCOOPER UNION — $25,000 · OtherRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $14,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $14,500 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $14,500 · OtherAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION — $12,500 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $14,500 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $12,500 · HealthFeeding America — $14,500 · Food & NutritionGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $14,500 · InternationalA FREE BIRD CORPORATION — $3,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureBEAUTY FOR FREEDOM INC — $3,000 · Civil RightsDR LENA EDWARDS ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,500 · Education
Philanthropy$1,934,377Other$123,324Health$41,500Food & Nutrition$14,500International$14,500Arts & Culture$4,500Civil Rights$3,000Education$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $1,934,377 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION — $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEAUTY FOR FREEDOM INC — $3,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetA FREE BIRD CORPORATION — $3,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetPALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDR LENA EDWARDS ACADEMIC CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,500 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Brooks Family Foundation Inc 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%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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