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Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of AMENDED AND RESTATED BRUBAKER CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $52,800 |
| ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SEVERSON DELLS NATURE CENTER | $50,000 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC | $50,000 |
| BURPEE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $45,000 |
| WISDOM SPORTS & SCHOLARS | $40,000 |
| KLEHM ARBORETUM & BOTANIC GARDENS | $15,000 |
| SALEM LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $10,000 |
| EQUINE VOICES RESCUE & SANCTUARY | $10,000 |
| TUBAC PICKLEBALL CLUB | $10,000 |
| MUSIC ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| BRAVEHEARTS THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $5,000 |
| SANTA CRUZ HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RPROCKFORD PROMISE6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue ×14 · 57% of their budget
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD4× · 2019–2022 · $424k · revenue +91%
University of Illinois Foundation2× · 2019–2020 · $300k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- RCROCKFORD CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $404k · revenue +24%
- LHLAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -6% · 34% of their budget
- GPGIGIS PLAYHOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the racine zoological society is to foster an enlightening and affordable wildlife experience that improves the bond between people and nature. the society will provide for the recreation and education of the people, the…
Preservation of swedish historical structure, culture and artifacts through the operations of a museum and cultural center.
It is the mission of this corporation to provide quality care for children between the ages of six weeks and twelve years whose parents are employed or in training.
To promote the affiliation of the university and college men and women in the city of rockford and vicinity to encourage and cultivate a social and friendly spirit among it's members.
To provide analysis and commentary on cultural, economic, political, and educational issues through a published monthly opinion magazine and to operate continuing adult educational conferences in american and european literature and…
Our purpose is to provide financial services to our members with competitive rates while maintaining our financial stability.
Organization to build a permanent endowment for the benefit of the rockford symphony orchestra and its programs.
The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University ("The Auditorium"), an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, is committed to presenting the finest in international, cultural, community and educational programming to Chicago and to the…
The primary role of the rockford area strategic initiative is to enhance education, commerce, trade and economic development in the rockford region
To promote commercial, industrial, and recreational development through ownership or management of businesses and properties, or by providing businesses assistance to enhance the tax base and quality of life in rock island, illinois.
To provide effective and rewarding ways for donors to fulfill their philanthropic objectives by administering charitable funds that distribute grants and scholarships to benefit the citizens of kane and kendall counties of illinois…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rockford Rescue Mission Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 41 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 59 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 ROCKFORD PROMISE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ASSOCIATION OF ROCKFORD ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CORONADO ↗
- Who funds HARRY AND DELLA BURPEE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER MUSEUM OF ROCKFORD INC ↗
- Who funds LAURENT HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD RESCUE MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD PARK DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KLEHM ARBORETUM AND BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Northern IL ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD CORONADO CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds CRUSADERS HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS SPECIAL RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK RIVER VALLEY PANTRY ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWAY VILLAGE & MUSEUM CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern IL · The David & Colleen Anderson Charitable Foundation · Bergstrom Inc Charitable Foundation Xxxxx2008 · The Kjellstrom Family Foundation · The Ben Harding Family Foundation · Jeffrey R Anderson Charitable Foundation · Blazer Foundation · Smith Charitable Foundation Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx · Tracy E Anderson Charitable Foundation · Guy Reno Family Foundation · John & Linda Anderson Charitable Foundation · Kristin L Anderson Charitable 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 Amended and Restated Brubaker Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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