Indiana · Nonprofit
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People (Indiana) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,882,916 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($791,436). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People does
Mission
Brooke's Place provides support groups, therapy services and community education to empower children, teens, young adults and their families to thrive in the midst of grief.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Brooke's Place is the only ongoing grief support program in Central Indiana for families with children between the ages of 3 and young adult who have experienced the death of someone significant. During 2024, Brooke's Place served a total of 960 individuals during 1203 completed group sessions in our ongoing support group program.
$1,072,188 spent87% of program spendingBP-8 outreach program: an 8-week outreach grief support group program that allows Brooke's Place to partner with community organizations, churches, schools and after-school centers to reach underserved youth needing grief services. In 2024, Brooke's Place served 203 students during 29 BP8 series.
$33,027 spent$7,825 earned by the program3% of program spendingTherapy Services: Brooke's Place provides individual therapy services to children ages 3 and over through young adult, using licensed mental health counselors. The therapy for children is based on play therapy, and empowers participants to feel supported and understood. In addition, there were 354 individuals who received 1,971 completed counseling sessions and professional grief support.
$95,734 spent$128,079 earned by the program8% of program spendingDescription of other exempt purpose accomplishments: Camp Healing Tree: An annual weekend camp for children ages 7-17 who have experienced the death of a loved one. The weekend camp includes grief therapy activities in small groups, large group presentations and a closing memorial service/ceremony. During 2024, 87 children and teens were served through the Camp Healing Tree program by over 109 trained volunteers.
$30,567 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,231,516.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.3M to $2.9M (+26%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 10% · 2018 9% · 2019 8% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 13% · 2023 9% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Theresa Brun
Executive Director
Board chair
Tanya Shelburne
Chair - Exit 02/24
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $148k → $1.1M.
13 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 19% · 2018 35% · 2019 23% · 2020 11% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
59% of Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People?
- Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People (Indiana) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,882,916 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($791,436). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $3,882,916 in grants to Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $791,436 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing