Brinkman Charitable TR

Analysis

Brinkman Charitable TR is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation (type i) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Brinkman Charitable TR reported income of $419k and spending of $291k, leaving 31% of income unspent that year. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $205k to $419k (+105%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 82%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Brinkman Charitable TR sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 67th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Impact100 Philadelphia Inc ($419k), Friends of Williamsburg Regional Library Foundation ($419k) and Freeland Lions Club Foundation ($419k).

Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $51k (18% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $4.4m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $4.4m.