· 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 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC | $10,000 |
| WILD CARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA | $10,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $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 |
| THE SOONER THEATER | $2,000 |
| NORMAN REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CITIZENS ADVISORY BOARD | $2,000 |
| FIREHOUSE ART CENTER | $2,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 28% of Brinkley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OK; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 INCone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +21%
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.
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…
How this is measured
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brinkley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brinkley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food and Shelter Inc: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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