Wyoming · Private foundation
Brendsel 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.
- $309k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Brendsel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | $309k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $244k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $268k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $250k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $260k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $307k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $235k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $223k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Annes Conservation Association In | $918,000 | 8 | 52% |
| Bay Journal Media Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 21% |
| Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $77,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shorerivers Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Education Foundation of Teton Valley Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| West Nidaros | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Tree of Life Congregation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 12 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Annes Conservation Association In | $918,000 | 8 | 52% |
| Bay Journal Media Inc | $350,000 | 6 | 21% |
| Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Hias Inc | $77,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Shorerivers Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Education Foundation of Teton Valley Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 6% |
| West Nidaros | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Tree of Life Congregation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Anti-Defamation League Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad of Poway | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($485k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Brendsel Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Brendsel Family Foundation
- How much does Brendsel Family Foundation give?
- Brendsel Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $309,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Brendsel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (68%), Arts & Culture (15%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Brendsel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Queen Annes Conservation Association In ($918k), Bay Journal Media Inc ($350k), Chesapeake Wildlife Heritage Inc ($100k).
- Does Brendsel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brendsel 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 Brendsel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Brendsel Family Foundation based?
- Brendsel Family Foundation is based in WY.
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