Texas · Private foundation
Braren Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Braren Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 7 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $8k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $7k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $5k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casa Juan Diego | $2,900 | 4 | 0% |
| Sending Out Servants | $2,900 | 1 | 2% |
| Magnificat Houses Inc | $2,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Eternal Word Television Network Inc | $2,100 | 5 | 0% |
| St Thomas High School | $1,875 | 2 | n/a |
| Reform America | $1,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Center Inc | $875 | 1 | n/a |
| The Water Project Inc | $875 | 1 | 0% |
| Star of Hope Mission | $650 | 3 | 0% |
| The Houston Food Bank | $300 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Braren Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Braren Family Foundation
- How much does Braren Family Foundation give?
- Braren Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $2,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Braren Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Housing & Shelter (17%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Braren Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Casa Juan Diego ($3k), Sending Out Servants ($3k), Magnificat Houses Inc ($2k).
- Does Braren Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Braren Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Braren Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Braren Family Foundation based?
- Braren Family Foundation is based in TX.
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