· Private foundation
W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL CITY CONCERN | $16,500 |
| MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY SERVICE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| EDISON HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEW BERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| MYERS PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| COLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| NC COASTAL FEDERATION | $3,000 |
| A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE | $3,000 |
| TRIED BY FIRE INC | $3,000 |
| COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Central City Concern4× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +75%- ATA TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +186%
- EHEDISON HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- NDNC DISASTER RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2024 · $13k
- ACADDIES CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- CHChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +26%
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.
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.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
Crossnore communities for children champions the well being of children and families by fostering innovative change that weaves a fabric of resilience in homes, schools, and communities.
Carolina hill provides safe and caring emergency shelter and supportive services to homeless families focusing efforts to achieve rapid re-housing and developing skills and resources to maintain it.
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
The mission of Charlotte Family Housing is to empower working families experiencing homelessness to achieve long-term self-sufficiency through shelter, housing, supportive services, and advocacy.
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
The Arc of North Carolina is committed to securing for all people with intellectual and developmental disabilities the opportunity to choose and realize their goals of where and how they learn, live, work, and play.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
How this is measured
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Central City Concern ↗
- Who funds A TOUCH OF THE FATHER'S LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds EDISON HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SELF ENHANCEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THEATRE IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds COLONIAL CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds COASTAL WOMEN'S SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRIED BY FIRE INC ↗
- Who funds DOROTHEA DIX PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Community Building Initiative ↗
- Who funds The Summit School Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RALEIGH RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
- Who funds LINVILLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Lester Brooks Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Self Enhancement Inc: 14% of income from government
- Central City Concern: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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