· Private foundation
Brinkley Family Foundation
Its FY2026 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 · FY2026
- Under $10k12 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $83k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Untied Way of Central Maryland | $83,334 |
| The Family Tree | $16,000 |
| NCIA Foundation | $15,000 |
| Church Good Shepherd | $10,000 |
| Business Volunteers of MD | $10,000 |
| Alzheimers Foundation | $10,000 |
| Sigma Alpha Epsilon FDN | $7,000 |
| Coffee and Paws Rescue | $5,500 |
| W&M Athletics Complex | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CATO Institute | $3,000 |
| St Martha's Episcapol Church | $2,000 |
| Gilchrist | $2,000 |
| Helping Up Mission | $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 (FY19–26, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FAMILY TREE INC9× · 2017–2026 · $120k · revenue +109%
- AFALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC2× · 2025–2026 · $33k · revenue +100%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $20k
- COCHURCH OF GOOD SHEPHERDone grant, 2025 · $15k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 68 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 MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY TREE INC ↗
- Who funds NCIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds William & Mary Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Coffee and Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BLAKEHURST RESIDENTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK 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: T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Wr Grace Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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.
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc: 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
- Maryland Academy of Sciences: 9% of income from government
- The Family Tree Inc: 9% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc: 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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