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Bremer 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k37 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES | $75,000 |
| MARCO DEMENTIA RESPITE | $1,200 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MIA RAYS SQUADRON | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $800 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $600 |
| CO2 COALITION | $500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| TPUSA | $500 |
| FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM (FAIR) | $500 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $400 |
| MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $300 |
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 (FY17–25, $412k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
51 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 9 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- MIMARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +23%
JUDICIAL WATCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +141%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC6× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- JOJFCS OF SW FLORIDAone grant, 2017 · $52k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- MIMARCO ISLAND ACADEMY A PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +76%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…
Aamc leads & serves the academic medicine community to improve the health of people everywhere.
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Marco Dementia Respite Mdr Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 84 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 BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARCO ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds MIA RAYS SQUADRON INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Marco Dementia Respite MDR Inc ↗
- Who funds MARCO ISLAND ACADEMY A PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds The American Legion ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS AGAINST GOVERNMENT WASTE ↗
- Who funds TIN CAN SAILORS INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Champagne Family Charitable Trust · Jean Family Foundation · Eric Javits Family Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · The Sandra & Lawrence Post Family Foundation · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Ken W Davis Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc
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 Bremer 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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