· Private foundation
Brinkley 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 $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| WILD CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA | $10,000 |
| MARY ABBOTT CHILDREN'S HOUSE INC | $6,000 |
| BETHESDA ALTERNATIVE INC | $6,000 |
| BRIDGES OF NORMAN INC | $5,000 |
| THE VIRTURE CENTER | $4,000 |
| OETA FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARD | $2,000 |
| FIREHOUSE ART CENTER | $2,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $2,000 |
| TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC | $2,000 |
| FOOD AND SHELTER INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 3% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 28% of Brinkley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OK; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +60%- WFWILDCARE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +191%
REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- TBTHE BRIDGES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +47%
- NANORMAN ADDICTION INFORMATION AND COUNSELINGone grant, 2017 · $1k
- PHPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +168%
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.
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
NorthCare offers a variety of services for children, adults, and families, designed to help you, your child, and your family recover from mental illness, substance use, trauma, or crisis to live a life in recovery.
The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.
The organization is engaged in the service of rehabilitating users of alcohol and drugs. the center is also involved in community service programs, dui schools and out-patient counseling.
The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.
To provide mental health and substance abuse counseling to chiildren, youth, families, and adults; to provide a 24 hr/7 days a week youth shelter and to work closely with other agencies to keep families together
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
Crisis intervention services and full shelter for victims and their children of domestic violence/sexual assault. Advocates for abused children in the court system.
Lighthouse Behavioral Wellness Centers, Inc. serves the community behavioral health needs of nine counties of Southern Oklahoma. Lighthouse offers integrated care through their outpatient and Health Home programs to adults and children.…
Our mission is to eliminate family violence, stalking, child abuse, and sexual assault through advocacy, education, counseling, support and prevention services.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Tulsa provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Obhc is dedicated to providing high-quality behavioral health services to individuals of all ages and diverse cultural or ethnic backgrounds. obhc offers substance use counseling, case management, and skills training for those with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Norman Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 22 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 CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds MARY ABBOTT CHILDREN'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF NORMAN INC ↗
- Who funds Norman Alcohol Information Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Fostering Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds Transition House Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORMAN REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORMAN FIREHOUSE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KATHERYNE B PAYNE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC ↗
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: Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Norman Inc · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Richard L and Charlotte Reynolds Family Trust Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Oec Foundation · Philip Boyle Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Kirkpatrick Family Affiliated Fund of Occf Inc · American Fidelity 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 Brinkley 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.
- Food and Shelter Inc — 6% of income from government
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.