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Brink Technology Inc

Brink Technology Inc (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,023,640 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,831,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$6.7M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$6.0M
Net assets
$14M
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%
01What it does

What Brink Technology Inc does

Mission

Brink exists to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol and network through fundamental research and development, and to support the Bitcoin developer community through funding, education, and mentoring.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. General programs - We support and mentor new contributors to open source Bitcoin development through our fellowship and support the work of established Bitcoin protocol engineers through grants.

    $1,473,130 spentof which $319,769 as grants
    96% of program spending
  2. Optech - Optech works to bring the best open source technologies and techniques to Bitcoin-using businesses in order to lower costs and improve customer experiences.

    $18,582 spent
    1% of program spending
  3. CoreDev - CoreDev Events are specifically designed for engineers to get together in person to work on Bitcoin Core related projects.

    $42,964 spent
    3% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,534,676.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($564k) Expenses 100 ($1k) Net assets 100 ($563k)2021 Revenue 791 ($4.5M) Expenses 79153 ($1.1M) Net assets 690 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 150 ($848k) Expenses 130849 ($1.7M) Net assets 474 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 1191 ($6.7M) Expenses 112716 ($1.5M) Net assets 1383 ($7.8M)2024 Revenue 1194 ($6.7M) Expenses 138175 ($1.8M) Net assets 2425 ($14M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (1194)Expenses (138175)Net assets (2425)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $8.1M to $14M (+68%).

$563k
$4.0M
$2.7M
$8.1M
$14M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

95% of Brink Technology Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (67% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 498 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$563k
’20
$3.4M
’21
−$894k
’22
$5.2M
’23
$4.9M
’24
51
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20202021202220232024
Listed35544
Joined·+2+1+2+1
No longer listed·0131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $170k → $2.5M.

6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Brink Technology Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 10 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Brink Technology Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Brink Technology Inc.

80%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

88% of Brink Technology Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $701k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 2 states.

NJ
CA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Brink Technology Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 482 science & tech nonprofits its size.

Operating margin73% · top quartile
Months of reserve50.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)86% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 482 science & tech nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Brink Technology Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Texas

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 14%Fundraising 3%

Governance

3
board members
67%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

DE
TX

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Brink Technology Ltd · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds Brink Technology Inc?
Brink Technology Inc (Texas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,023,640 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,831,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Brink Technology Inc have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $6,023,640 in grants to Brink Technology Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Brink Technology Inc?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,831,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Brink Technology Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing