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Theodore Brickman Ud 122794 Brickman 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.

$255k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$8.1MArts & Culture$1.6MHealth$534kPublic Benefit$210kEducation$165kHuman Services$148kRecreation & Sports$66kEnvironment$66kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
$30,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW CHURCH LIVE$90,000
NEW CHRISTIAN BIBLE STUDY CORP$75,000
GETTYSBURG COLLEGE$30,000
BRYN ATHYN CHURCH$30,000
SOUTH HAVEN SPEAKERS SERIES$10,000
SOUTH HAVEN DOG PARK INC$10,000
SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION$5,000
SOUTH HAVEN PERFORMANCE SERIES$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–20, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION: $5k → 10%US TOGETHER: $3k → 18%CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER: $90k → 12%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

MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
VA
AZ
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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 39% of Theodore Brickman Ud 122794 Brickman 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. Read by recipient address, 81% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 48% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Theodore Brickman Ud 122794 Brickman Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.5M · 15 repeat orgs$709k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
16

Total granted

$4.5M
$684k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+197%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentEducationOther

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

  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +17%
  • SF
    SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +206%
  • NC
    NEW CHRISTIAN BIBLE STUDY CORP
    8× · 2017–2025 · $575k · revenue +105% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BIRTH CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $300k · revenue 0%
  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +916%
  • CR
    CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +197%

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.

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Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

6
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr17%8%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr17%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%8%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr17%1%20–35yr15%6%35–55yr17%79%55yr+

The field is 18% 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 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
9%
7,129/78,138

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

20 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCH — $5,715,448 · EducationTHE ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCH+2 more — $165,000 · EducationNEW CHURCH LIVE — $866,200 · OtherNEW CHURCH LIVETHE BIRTH CENTER — $300,000 · OtherTHE BIRTH CENTERBRYN ATHYN CHURCH — $240,000 · OtherBRYN ATHYN CHURCHPENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST — $65,700 · Other+18 more — $263,632 · Other+18 moreColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureColonial William…VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureVERO BEACH MUSEU…SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION INC — $640,000 · ReligionSWEDENBORG F…NEW CHRISTIAN BIBLE STUDY CORP — $575,000 · ReligionNEW CHRISTIA…ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $200,000 · HealthABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Public BenefitCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human Services
Education$5,880,448Other$1,735,532Arts & Culture$1,600,000Religion$1,215,000Health$226,000Public Benefit$200,000Human Services$97,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCH — $5,715,448 over 7y, 11% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $1,500,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSWEDENBORG FOUNDATION INC — $640,000 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetNEW CHRISTIAN BIBLE STUDY CORP — $575,000 over 8y, 32% of budgetTHE BIRTH CENTER — $300,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC — $90,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetPENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST — $65,700 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetBERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $42,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $400 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 THE ACADEMY OF THE NEW CHURCH
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Who funds SWEDENBORG FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NEW CHRISTIAN BIBLE STUDY CORP
  • Who funds THE BIRTH CENTER
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ABINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
  • Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE
  • Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC
  • Who funds CHILDCARE RESOURCES OF INDIAN RIVER INC
  • Who funds PENNYPACK ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TRUST
  • Who funds BERRIEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ABINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC
  • Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION
  • Who funds UPSTATE WARRIOR SOLUTION INC
  • Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds US TOGETHER INC
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY
  • Who funds Natural Lands Trust Inc

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.

Asplundh FoundationPA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Asplundh Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Linlundh Foundation · Pennsylvania Automotive Association Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Theodore Brickman Ud 122794 Brickman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • The Learning Alliance Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 36 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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