How much did W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2021

haitichapel

2022

shelterhomelessyouth

2023

shelterhomelessyouthpresbyterian church

2024

education goalshurricane helenehelene reliefpresbyterian churchclothing

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k19 grants · $45k
$10k–50k1 grant · $13k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND$13,000
RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICE$8,000
MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$6,250
THE DUKE MANSION$5,250
NEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$4,000
WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN$3,000
MYERS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$3,000
A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE$3,000
JVC NORTHWEST$2,000
CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION$1,500
CAMP SEAGULLCAMP SEAFARER$1,500
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$1,500
UNC CHAPEL HILL - SCHOOL OF EDUCATI$1,000
SUMMIT SCHOOL$1,000
THEATER IN THE PARK$1,000

02The need

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:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 9%. 84% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

$176k · 23 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$176k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+43%

Still filing today

43%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

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A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +414%
NB
NEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +41%
CENTRAL CITY CONCERN
3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +63%

Funded once

AC
ADDIES CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CH
one grant, 2021 · $5k
CH
CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF NC
one grant, 2021 · $3k
RO
RCS OF NEW BERN
one grant, 2021 · $2k

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.

Trinity Episcopal School

Trinity episcopal school is called to inspire young lives by creating outstanding scholars who are grounded in a firm spiritual foundation and an enduring commitment to the richness of diversity.

Education

Charlotte Institute for Faith and Work

The Charlotte Institute for Faith & Work was founded by a group of people who believe that God cares about our everyday work. It's through our work, from cleaning public restrooms to creating investment portfolio strategies, that God cares…

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Lake Norman Christian School

The mission of Lake Norman Christian School is to provide a college-preparatory education in a safe and nurturing environment grounded in the Christian faith.

Education

For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion

Trinity Academy of Raleigh

The mission of trinity academy is to equip students to live with wisdom, excellence, and purpose in the modern world by offering an education grounded in the christian faith and the classical tradition.

Education

Oak Hill School

It is the oak hill school mission to build character and integrity in a christian environment for a lifetime of learning and service.

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UrbanPromise Charlotte

Our mission at UrbanPromise is to provide Charlotte's children and youth with the spiritual, academic, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development

Charlotte Christian School

Charlotte christian school is a christ-centered, college preparatory school, equipping and developing students to effectively integrate biblical truth and learning into their daily lives and to impact the culture for christ.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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The Seattle School of Theology

The mission of the seattle school of theology & psychology is to train people (see schedule o) to become competent in the study of text, soul, and culture in order to serve god and neighbors through transforming relationships.

Education

Missio Theological Seminary

To incarnate and communicate the story of jesus with humility and authenticity, fidelity to scripture, appreciation of the christian tradition, and sensitivity to the needs and aspirations of postmodern culture.

Religion

The Epiphany School of Global Studies

The Epiphany School of Global Studies, anchored in Judeo-Christian commandment to love God and your neighbor as yourself, is a rigorous college-preparatory and globally-focused school where dynamic and innovative learning is stretched…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Raleigh Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Central City Concern. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$181,500Human Services$16,000Health$10,000Housing & Shelter$6,000Recreation & Sports$5,000Community Improvement$2,200Education$2,000

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.

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.

North Carolina Community FoundationNC17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Carolina Community Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Oregon Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund

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 organisation W Lester Brooks 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 800753276 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph