· Private foundation
Pinky and Joe Brier 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NORTH IDAHO HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LAND AND SEA AVIATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| DIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| GRAND GUARDIAN COUNCIL JOBS DAUGHTE | $2,500 |
| CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 61% of its 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 +48% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 20 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, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN BERNARDINO INC2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +173%
- NONATIONAL ORANGE SHOW FOUNDATION2× · 2019–2020 · $8k · revenue +48%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- AHAQUANIS HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
- EMELAINE MORRISON LANGLY FLYING SCHOOone grant, 2018 · $5k
- MFMARIA FITZSIMMONS PILOT TRAINING NWone grant, 2020 · $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.
The Foundation's mission is to endeavor to support programs and projects that measurably improve the physical and emotional health and health, wholeness and hope is coupled with a vision to transform the well-being in Paradise, and the…
Pacific central coast health centers', sponsored by dignity community care, mission is to provide access to cost effective, quality medical services in the northern santa barbara county, san luis obispo county, kern county and ventura…
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
Community hospital of san bernardino ("chsb") is a non-profit, full-service, acute care facility in business to provide acute inpatient care, long-term care and a wide range of ancillary and therapeutic care to the community we serve. our…
The mission of redlands community hospital foundation is to advance the delivery of exceptional healthcare in the inland empire through the acquisition, management and utilization of philanthropic funds for redlands community hospital.
To participate in and educate the public about health issues and ballot proposition activity related to health issues or of concern to hospitals and health systems.
The Central Valley Health Foundation (CVHF) is a California not-for-profit corporation. The Foundation was organized to coordinate the solicitation of contributions through its operations and to disburse such contributions, earnings, and…
Creating solutions to improve housing outcomes for renters, homebuyers, homeowners, and those experiencing homelessness through education, advocacy and access to resources in the inland socal region.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
Redwood credit union community fund, inc. will help to make a meaningful impact in advancing the well-being of our communities. our approach is to be respectful and intentional in our giving. we exist to meet the needs of others.
Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 83 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.
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: Annette M Williams Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pinky and Joe Brier Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pinky and Joe Brier Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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