· Private foundation
Brickell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
76% of Brickell Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Sterling Donor Advised Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 17 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Brickell Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $75k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $52,000 |
| THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,000 |
| CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,500 |
| CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MANHASSET | $1,500 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $1,000 |
| CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH ST FRANCISVILLE | $1,000 |
| MERCATUS CENTER AT GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| BEAUVOIR THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD | $1,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF YAZOO CITY | $800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 17% of Brickell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago8× · 2017–2024 · $382k · revenue +56%- TBTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK7× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +31%
- CCCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- ESEPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONSone grant, 2022 · $1k
- FOFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMAone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +1%
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.
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How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 41 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 University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE STERLING DONOR ADVISED FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NGONG ROAD ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME FINANCE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brickell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brickell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Bosco-Milligan Foundation Architectural Heritage Center: 1% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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