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Brigham 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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$57,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,500,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 28
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$324k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Brigham Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$3.4M55%
FY20246$1.5M17%
FY20235$1.4M60%
FY20224$577k25%
FY20215$547k60%
FY202014$513k21%
FY201728$704kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Social Science$4.2MPublic Benefit$3.4MArts & Culture$505kEducation$182kCivil Rights$80kCrime & Legal$75kReligion$41kEnvironment$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
IA
CA
UT
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($689k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Brigham Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism: $3,570,500 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetTexas Public Policy Foundation: $2,571,670 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetGlobal Liberty Institute USA: $700,000 over 3y, 85% of budgetEmergent Order Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetThe Atlas Society Ltd: $205,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Travis County: $65,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLibertas Network: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetManhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Geosciences Institute Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMountain States Legal Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPrager University Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cornerstone Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCato Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth and Family Alliance: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Hand Home for Children Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoy Scouts of America - Capitol Area Council - Tom Wooten Trust: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetMagdalene House of Austin: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYoung Life: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArena Hall: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetStudents for Liberty Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Americans for Liberty Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Reach Out Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget22kill: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWonders & Worries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Tech Law School Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe University of Texas Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Donors Trust IncVA25× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · Farrell Family Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Brigham Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Brigham Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Brigham Family Foundation

How much does Brigham Family Foundation give?
Brigham Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $3,375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Brigham Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Social Science (48%), Public Benefit (40%), Arts & Culture (6%).
Who are Brigham Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Ayn Rand Institute the Center for the Advancement of Objectivism ($3.6M), Texas Public Policy Foundation ($2.6M), Global Liberty Institute USA ($700k).
Does Brigham Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Brigham Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brigham Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Greater Houston Community Foundation, The Dunn Foundation.
Where is Brigham Family Foundation based?
Brigham Family Foundation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 46 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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