Illinois · Private foundation
The Brinson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 138
- Grants FY2024
- 113
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 97 to 113
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $193M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations The Brinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 114 | $8.0M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 113 | $106M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 110 | $5.9M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 102 | $5.4M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 97 | $4.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| California Institute of Technology | $101,128,500 | 5 | 3% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $1,005,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $921,800 | 3 | 0% |
| St John's Health Foundation | $880,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago | $746,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Carnegie Institution of Washington | $622,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Eisenhower Medical Center | $550,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago | $418,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Adler Planetarium | $417,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Field Museum of Natural History | $409,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 128 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Brinson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 122 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Finnegan Family Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Vivo Foundation · Cme Group Foundation · The Osa Foundation · Fulk Family Foundation Inc · Mayer and Morris Kaplan Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Brinson Foundation
- How much does The Brinson Foundation give?
- The Brinson Foundation reported 138 grants totaling $8,480,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 97 and 113 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Brinson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (82%), Education (6%), Health (4%).
- Who are The Brinson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: California Institute of Technology ($101M), Rush University Medical Center ($1.0M), University of Chicago ($922k).
- Does The Brinson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Brinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Brinson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Circle of Service Foundation, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Brinson Foundation based?
- The Brinson Foundation is based in IL.
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