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Brauner Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FEEDING SAN DIEGO | $3,000 |
| SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK | $2,064 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION | $2,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $2,000 |
| SOS CHILDRENS VILLAGES | $2,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,500 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $1,200 |
| ACLU OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,000 |
| SAN DIEGO FOSTER ANGELS | $1,000 |
| CA FIRE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $1,000 |
| DEMOCRACY FORWARD | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
41 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 17 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SDSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +4%
- JCJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +16%
- FSFEEDING SAN DIEGO3× · 2023–2025 · $4k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DE PAULone grant, 2023 · $2k
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +78%- CMCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -10%
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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 88 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 SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds JACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ASSISTANCE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS GREATER SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER FAMILY AGENCY ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
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: The San Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Parker Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Alliance Healthcare Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Brauner Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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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