Wyoming · Private foundation
The Brooks 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.
- $124k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 75
- Grants FY2024
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,240
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 103
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 21
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations The Brooks Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k 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 | 73 | $104k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $206k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $172k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 62 | $133k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $100k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 94 | $170k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 103 | $184k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brunswick School Inc | $54,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $52,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Katherine Delmar Burke School | $41,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Town School for Boys | $36,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Jackson Hole Land Trust | $28,700 | 4 | 0% |
| Proctor Academy | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| San Francisco Parks Alliance | $22,596 | 7 | 0% |
| Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Compass Family Services | $21,500 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 154 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Brooks 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: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Wyoming Community Foundation · Giving Brands · Marin Community Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Karl M Johnson Foundation · William E Weiss Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Nelson Family Foundation · Elbridge & Evelyn Stuart Foundation · The Ammon Foundation
How this is measured
About The Brooks Foundation
- How much does The Brooks Foundation give?
- The Brooks Foundation reported 75 grants totaling $124,214 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 103 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Brooks Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Philanthropy (14%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Brooks Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Brunswick School Inc ($55k), The Taft School Corporation ($53k), Katherine Delmar Burke School ($42k).
- Does The Brooks Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brooks Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Brooks Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation, Wyoming Community Foundation.
- Where is The Brooks Foundation based?
- The Brooks Foundation is based in WY.
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