· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHOICES CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| COURAGE THRU CANCER | $10,000 |
| LE BONHEUR CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BMHC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LITTLE LIGHTHOUSE CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC | $10,000 |
| CALI'S SMILE INC | $10,000 |
| RENEW CHURCH | $7,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $6,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 5% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- DGDixon Gallery and Gardensgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +45%
- DRDREW RANIER MEMORIAL FUNDone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 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 REACH MEMPHIS ↗
- Who funds HARWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BALLET ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD BAY LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds MARGIE'S HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Memphis Center For Reproductive Health 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brinkley Taf Brinkley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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