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The Brooks Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 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, FY2021 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$41,324
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKS FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND$41,324
02The need
03

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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $6k → 17%CROHN'S & COLITIS 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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +9%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +26%
  • Feeding America
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +23%

Funded once

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

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Global Fund for Women Inc; 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 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. 13 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $1,934,377 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONBROOKS FAMILY DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $41,324 · OtherCOOPER UNION: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $14,500 · OtherRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $14,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFeeding America: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Brooks Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brooks Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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, 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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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