Tennessee · 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.
- $278k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $278k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $294k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $245k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $210k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $255k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $228k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Hutchison School | $125,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Memphis University School | $84,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Courage Thru Cancer Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 60% |
| Le Bonheur Children's Hospital Foundation | $67,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation Inc | $67,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Harbor Day School | $60,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Children's Foundation of Memphis | $60,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Alpha Omega Veterans Services Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Binghampton Christian Academy Inc | $45,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Church Health Center of Memphis Inc | $42,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($544k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation
- How much does Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation give?
- Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $277,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (33%), Religion (8%).
- Who are Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Hutchison School ($125k), Memphis University School ($84k), Courage Thru Cancer Inc ($70k).
- Does Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Thomas Garrott Foundation.
- Where is Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation based?
- Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation is based in TN.
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