Does Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation

Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation

Q: What does Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (13%).

Q: Who are Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fairfield University ($1.6M), Rochester Institute of Technology ($1.2M), Rochester Regional Health Foundation ($500k).

Q: Does Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.0MHealth$707kArts & Culture$677kHuman Services$358kFood & Nutrition$355kRecreation & Sports$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$52kAnimals$41kOther$0

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k6 grants · $100k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$250k+6 grants · $3.8M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$38k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY	$1,100,000
ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY	$1,000,000
GIBBES ART MUSEUM	$500,000
ROCHESTER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION	$500,000
ARETHUSA FARMS FOUNDATION	$330,000
SOUTHBURY WOMEN'S CLUB	$330,000
LCCESA	$100,000
MT ABRAM SKI CLUB	$50,000
ANDROSCOGGIN HOME HEALTH SERVICE	$30,000
DIRT ROAD DAIRY FARM	$20,000
MAINE MEDICAL CENTER	$20,000
BENT OF THE RIVER AUDUBON CENTER	$10,000
ROCHESTER INSTUTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KATE GLEASON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING BRINK	$10,000
CARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.0M · 26 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.0M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+39%

Still filing today

42%

27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

Fairfield University
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +63%
Rochester Institute of Technology
6× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +61%
MA
MT ABRAM SKI CLUB
7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +284% · 40% of their budget

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY
one grant, 2020 · $10k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +112%
AN
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +27%

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.

04Its field

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.

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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St Peter's Health Partners

We, st. peter's health partners and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Regional Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Begin Again Horse Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 44 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/19

Grantees still filing

15/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$2,854,500Other$1,739,356Health$577,000Recreation & Sports$70,000Public Safety & Disaster$39,767Human Services$29,800Animals$17,000

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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Earl W and Hildagunda a Brinkman Private Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home