North Carolina · Private foundation
W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $112k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 24
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $625k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $112k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $58k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $55k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $54k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Presbyterian Church USA | $28,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Central City Concern | $24,500 | 4 | 0% |
| A Touch of the Father's Love Inc | $14,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Edison High School | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Self Enhancement Inc | $8,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Open House Ministries | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chi Omega Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Usga Foundation | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Theatre in the Park Inc | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Colonial Capital Humane Society | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($184k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc
- How much does W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc give?
- W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc reported 34 grants totaling $112,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 24 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Presbyterian Church USA ($28k), Central City Concern ($25k), A Touch of the Father's Love Inc ($14k).
- Does W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, Duke Energy Foundation, The Winston-Salem Foundation.
- Where is W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc based?
- W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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