· 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 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 |
|---|---|
| BALLET X | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSE | $2,500 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOUNDATION FOR WOUNDED MILITARY HEROES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| LIVEWELL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION FISHER 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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Education and Research
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How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 99 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 FREIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLETX ↗
- Who funds MOORESTOWN ROWING CLUB INC ↗
- 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 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds POCKETS FULL OF SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds Home For Good Dog Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds URBANPROMISE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Alice Paul Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brinkman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brinkman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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