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Uw Gladys Brooks Foundation

New York, NY · EIN 13-2955337. Reported 65 grants totalling $7,148,470 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$139,500median grant
$7,148,470granted, 2021-2024
54organizations funded
19%of grantees funded again the next year
$42.5Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Uw Gladys Brooks Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $139,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $50,000 and $150,000; the smallest was $25,000 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
11 grants
$100,000 and Up
44 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Trinity Pawling School CorporationPawling, NY$350,000442024
Trustees of Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$350,000222023
The Boston HomeBosotn, MA$300,000222024
Notre Dame of Maryland UniversityBaltimore, MD$250,000222024
Henry Viscardi SchoolAlbertson, NY$200,000222022
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$200,000222023
Merrimack CollegeNorth Andover, MA$200,000112021
New York and Presbyterian HospitalYonkers, NY$200,000112021
O'connor HospitalDelhi, NY$200,000112021
The New York Academy of MedicineNew York, NY$164,500222024
Betances Health CenterNew York, NY$150,000112023
Beth Israel Medical CenterNy, NY$150,000112021
Birch Family Srevices IncNew York, NY$150,000112023
Canterbury SchoolNew Milford, CT$150,000112024
Fairfield UniversityFairfield, CT$150,000112022
Fenimore Art MuseumCooperstown, NY$150,000112023
Helen Keller ServicesBrooklyn, NY$150,000112021
Holy Cross CollegeNotre Dame, IN$150,000112024
Horizon VillageGetzville, NY$150,000112022
Nyu Langone HospitalsMineola, NY$150,000112023
Pace UniversityNew York, NY$150,000112024
Ramapo College FoundationMahwah, NJ$150,000112024
St Lawrence UniversityCanton, NY$150,000112022
St Peter's UniversityJersey City, NJ$150,000112022
The Cleveland Clinic FoundationVero Beach, FL$150,000112023
Tufts UniversityBoston, MA$150,000112024
University of Illinois FoundationChampaign, IL$150,000112024
Webb InstituteGlen Cove, NY$150,000112023
Mary Imogene Bassett HospitalCooperstown, NY$147,000112023
American University of BeirutNew York, NY$140,000112023
Advocacy and Resource CenterPalattsburgh, NY$120,000112022
Young Adult Institute IncNew York, NY$101,400112022
American Antiquarian SocietyWorchester, MA$100,000112021
Children's Specialized Hospital Foundation IncMountainside, NJ$100,000112023
For Pete's Sake Cancer Respite FoundationPlymouth Meeting, PA$100,000112024
Good Samaritan Hospital FoundationWest Islip, NY$100,000112023
Mount Holyoke CollegeSouth Hadley, MA$100,000112024
Mt Washington Pediatric CenterBaltimore, MD$100,000112021
Teachers College Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$100,000112024
Trustees of Stevens Institute of TechnologyHoken, NJ$100,000112022
Washington and Jefferson CollegeWashington, PA$100,000112022
Pathfinder Village FoundationEdmeston, NY$80,000112022
University of Notre Dame Du LacNotre Dame, IN$75,000332023
Elizabeth Seton Pediatric CenterYonkers, NY$65,000112023
Foundation for Portland Public SchoolsPortland, ME$55,570112021
Acld Foundation IncBethpage, NY$50,000112023
Connecticut Institute for the Blind Dba Oak HillHartford, CT$50,000112021
Frostburg State University FoundationFrostburg, MD$50,000112024
Nativity Miguel Middle School of BuffaloBuffalo, NY$50,000112021
St Patrick's SchoolBayshore, NY$50,000112022
Indian River Hospital Foundation IncVero Beach, FL$25,000112022
Mizzentop Day SchoolPawling, NY$25,000112024
Nyu Langone Long IslandMineola, NY$25,000112022
University of Notre DameNotre Dame, IN$25,000112024

8 of 54 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 19%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 47 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
27 grants
Health Care
12 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant
Medical Research
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$1,855,570$125,000
202217$1,751,400$101,400
202316$1,752,000$143,500
202416$1,789,500$144,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 59% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

New York
$4.2M
Massachusetts
$850K
New Jersey
$500K
Maryland
$400K
Connecticut
$350K
Indiana
$250K
Pennsylvania
$200K
Florida
$175K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $139,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Uw Gladys Brooks Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 114 West 47TH St 6TH Floor, New York, NY, 10036. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 13-2955337 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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