· Private foundation
The Brinkman Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET X | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSE | $2,500 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROES | $2,500 |
| ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| LIVEWELL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION FISHER CENTER | $1,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,500 |
| V FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $1,500 |
| BARNES FOUNDATION | $1,125 |
| SEAL KIDS | $1,046 |
| STAG VETERANS (COMFORT FARMS) | $1,044 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 12 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- FFFREIRE FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +52%
- APAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +48%
- AOACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS6× · 2019–2025 · $17k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEYone grant, 2017 · $3k
- HHHILTON HEAD HEROSone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Allie's Friends Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 99 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.
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- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds HILTON HEAD HUMANE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSE OF MOORESTOWN NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
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- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
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- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROS ↗
- Who funds LIVEWELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Houses for Warriors ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Peggy & Ellis Wachs Foundation · The Neubauer Family Foundation · Independence Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 The Brinkman Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Alice Paul Institute Inc — 43% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- American Physical Society — 1% of income from government
- American Institute of Physics Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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