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The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family 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.

$273k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$914kArts & Culture$465kHealth$459kHuman Services$441kInternational$222kPhilanthropy$58kPublic Benefit$52kCrime & Legal$38kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$1.5M
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$150,000
AIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST$50,000
DON BOSCOCRISTOREY$40,000
WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION$20,000
AUTISM SPEAKS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
WASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION$2,500
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$500
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $342k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%FOR JAMAICA INC: $1k → 13%HEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH INC: $5k → 8%SASHA BRUCE YOUTHWORK INC: $1k → 14%HEARTS AND HOMES FOR YOUTH INC: $500 → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $100k → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DC: $5k → 14%UPWARD BOUND FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%UPWARD BOUND FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%UPWARD BOUND FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%UPWARD BOUND FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%MOST VALUABLE KIDS: $3k → 14%UPWARD BOUND FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%UPWARD BOUND FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $3k → 8%CRITTENTON SERVICES OF GREATER WASHINGTON: $1k → 8%SHEPHERD FOUNDATION LTD: $5k → 8%SHEPHERD FOUNDATION LTD: $1k → 8%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $30k → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $15k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $20k → 8%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $20k → 8%FAIR CHANCE: $15k → 14%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $20k → 8%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $10k → 8%NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $5k → 8%CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%ANCHOR FUND: $5k → 14%CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%ANCHOR FUND: $5k → 14%WASHINGTON AREA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 14%ANCHOR FUND: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
SC
DC
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 57 repeat orgs$538k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
69

Total granted

$3.6M
$538k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • PA
    PROCTOR ACADEMY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $381k · revenue +34%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2025 · $324k · revenue +95%
  • AH
    AIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST
    4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +162% · 50% of their budget

Funded once

  • NC
    NEW CHURCH LIVE
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • NP
    NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • MS
    MCLEAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
3
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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4
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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5
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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6
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…

Health
10
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aim High Charitable Trust. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity FoundationsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Food Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacySchool Parent OrganizationsElementary Literacy TutoringDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity College Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%30%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/103
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,462

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.

05the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 129 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
91/93
Grantees still filing
62/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD — $255,100 · OtherCONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILDAIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST CO JAMES RICE — $250,000 · OtherAIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST CO JAMES RICEDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL — $100,500 · OtherDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLYouth Invest Partners Inc — $100,000 · OtherYouth Invest Partners IncDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGHSCHOOL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC — $95,000 · OtherDON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGHSCHOOL OF THE ARCHD…NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FA — $70,000 · OtherDON BOSCOCRISTOREY — $60,000 · Other+58 more — $719,000 · Other+58 morePROCTOR ACADEMY — $381,000 · EducationPROCTOR ACADEMYAIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST — $200,000 · EducationAIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUS…THE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC — $155,500 · EducationTHE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MAR…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION…HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDA…+8 more — $62,000 · Education+8 moreWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $175,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FO…HALCYON HOUSE — $105,000 · Arts & CultureHALCYON HOUS…THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BARBARA …THE WASHINGTON BALLET — $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WASHINGT…JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION — $31,500 · Arts & CultureJOSHUA M FRE…+5 more — $28,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $323,500 · HealthCHILDREN'S H…INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $55,000 · HealthINOVA HEALTH…AUTISM SPEAKS INC — $30,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAK…+12 more — $50,500 · Health+12 moreNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $150,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL CE…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON — $105,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CH…Upward Bound Foundation Incorporated — $103,500 · Human ServicesUpward Boun…FAIR CHANCE — $30,000 · Human ServicesFAIR CHANCETHE ANCHOR FUND — $15,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human Services+7 more — $22,500 · Human ServicesWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC — $150,000 · InternationalMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH CAMPUS BERLIN INC — $20,000 · InternationalFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $12,250 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $10,000 · InternationalGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyMONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION — $19,000 · PhilanthropySO WHAT ELSE INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND INC — $2,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $2,200 · Philanthropy
Other$1,649,600Education$913,500Arts & Culture$464,500Health$459,000Human Services$441,000International$222,250Philanthropy$58,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY — $381,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $323,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST — $200,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $175,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC — $155,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON — $105,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHALCYON HOUSE — $105,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUpward Bound Foundation Incorporated — $103,500 over 6y, 50% of budgetYouth Invest Partners Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC — $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET — $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUNDS TRUE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetN STREET VILLAGE INC — $39,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetJOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION — $31,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR CHANCE — $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE JEWISH CAMPUS BERLIN INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMONUMENTAL SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT FOUNDATION — $19,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBRUCE EDWARDS ALS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY TREE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ANCHOR FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $12,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Good Fund — $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER WASHINGTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSO WHAT ELSE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetProduce Alliance Foundation — $9,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Center for Maternal and Child Care Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHEPHERD FOUNDATION LTD — $6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AIM HIGH CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE MCLEAN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds WE CHARITY WILLIAM C MORAN & ASSOC PC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds HALCYON HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Upward Bound Foundation Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Youth Invest Partners Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
  • Who funds SOUNDS TRUE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON DC POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOSHUA M FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
  • Who funds MERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Carl M Freeman Fo…The Gary and Pennie A…Clark Charitable Foun…Philip L Graham Fund …United Way of the Nat…World Bank Community …Leo M Bernstein Famil…Nora Roberts Foundati…The Ryna and Melvin C…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC62× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Carl M Freeman Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · United Way of the National Capital Area · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Leo M Bernstein Family Foundation · Nora Roberts Foundation · The Ryna and Melvin Cohen Family Foundation

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 Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Joshua M Freeman Foundation — 20% of income from government
  • Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Family Tree Inc — 9% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
  • National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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