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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $785k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT | $1,500,000 |
| EMERGENT ORDER FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT | $240,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $120,000 |
| THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD | $117,000 |
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT | $100,000 |
| GLOBAL LIBERTY INSTITUTE USA | $100,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $57,500 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT | $25,500 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARENA HALL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM7× · 2017–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +213%
- TPTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +137%
- TATHE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD4× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- LNLibertas Networkgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +52%
- CFCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CARBON DIOXIDE AND GLOBALone grant, 2017 · $40k
- AGAmerican Geosciences Institute Foundationone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The ACLU Foundation of Texas is the unyielding guardian and promoter of freedom, justice, equality and dignity of all people, particularly for those who are still fighting to secure the full exercise of their civil rights and liberties.…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
Uatx is a nonprofit dedicated to building a liberal arts university committed to freedom of inquiry, freedom of conscience, and civil discourse. to maintain these principles, the university will be fiercely independent financially,…
The Progress Texas Institute provides research and strategic communications on issues with the ultimate goal of increasing civic engagement.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Defending principles that make this state exceptional. we are taking on public officials who advocate policies contrary to what makes texas, texas. we are here to safeguard individual liberties, limited government and the bedrock of our…
The forty first foundation supports and advances the university of texas at austin in its pursuit of excellence. we work closely with the office of the president to identify, fund, and implement strategic initiatives that enhance the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LIBERTY INSTITUTE USA ↗
- Who funds Emergent Order Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF TRAVIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Libertas Network ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds American Geosciences Institute Foundation ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATES LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAGDALENE HOUSE OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CAPITOL AREA COUNCIL - TOM WOOTEN TRUST ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Arena Hall ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG AMERICANS FOR LIBERTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL CO INC ↗
- Who funds Teneo Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Reach Out Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTLAKE HYLINE PARENTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 22KILL ↗
- Who funds Wonders & Worries Inc ↗
- Who funds STREET 16 FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brigham Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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