· Private foundation
Brinkley Taf Brinkley 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $187k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $40,000 |
| BOLLWEEVIL CHARITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $17,000 |
| CALI'S SMILE INC | $10,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COURAGE THRU CANCER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BMHC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHOICES CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH | $10,000 |
| RENEW CHURCH | $7,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 5% of your 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 14 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; $45k 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
- THTHE HUTCHISON SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +70%
- MUMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +80%
- CTCOURAGE THRU CANCER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +896% · 60% of their budget
Funded once
- SJST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $10k
- AIARISE2READ INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +12%
- MRMAGNOLIA RECOVERY WELLNESS FOUNDATIone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
To produce lifelong learners, critical thinkers, effective communicators, and productive members of the global community
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Memphis, Inc. sees a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children. They provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and…
To prepare young ladies and gentlemen for college success within a highly-structured, nurturing, christian environment.
The Foundation is charged with raising, managing and distributing charitable gift support for Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge (MMC) in order to perpetuate and advance the highest quality of health care services at MMC. Donations to…
Memphis recovery centers, inc. (mrc) provides compassionate treatment services for youth and adults suffering from substance addiction and co-occurring disorders, utilizing professional methods to improve spiritual, physical, emotional,…
Memphis business academy is a public charter school authorized by the shelby county schools board of education. the mission of the school is to improve the academic achievement of elementary, middle and high schools in math, science,…
Develop and implement programs to meet major urban challenges that exist for memphis, tennessee
Motivated by the love and compassion of christ and in keeping with our baptist heritage, bchs provides quality primary healthcare and behavioral healthcare to individuals in medically underserved communities.
In response to the love of god, the methodist rehabilitation center, is dedicated to the restoration and enhancement of the lives of those we serve. we are committed to excellence and leadership in the delivery of comprehensive…
Memphis merit academy charter school prepares kindergarten through 8th-grade students in memphis for success in high school, college, and life by providing rigorous academics, high-quality instruction, and character development in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Children's Foundation of Memphis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 61. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 HUTCHISON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COURAGE THRU CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Foundation of Memphis ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA VETERANS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Binghampton Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds MEMPHIS OPPORTUNITY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEER POWER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REACH MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD BAY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds MARGIE'S HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Center For Reproductive Health 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: Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Thomas Garrott Foundation · The Kemmons Wilson Family Foundation · The Day Foundation · John Dustin Buckman Charitable Trust · Deborah D Tipton Charitable Foundation · Thomas W Briggs Foundation Inc · Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Children's Foundation of Memphis · Great Oaks Foundation · Lawrence Lewis 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 Taf Brinkley 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.