Delaware · Private foundation
Bronson 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.
- $28k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,667
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $709k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Bronson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $28k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $31k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $32k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $34k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $37k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $38k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $31k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont Land Trust Inc | $28,334 | 8 | 0% |
| Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc | $23,501 | 7 | 1% |
| Cultivating Community | $20,166 | 6 | 0% |
| Granite Backcountry Alliance | $18,665 | 7 | 3% |
| Maine Island Trail Association | $18,415 | 7 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand Mano en Mano | $17,833 | 5 | 0% |
| Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports | $14,833 | 7 | 0% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $11,001 | 3 | 0% |
| New England Mountain Bike Association Inc | $10,667 | 5 | 0% |
| Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado | $9,999 | 5 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bronson 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: Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · Davis Conservation Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Leonard C & Mildred F Ferguson Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Bronson Family Foundation
- How much does Bronson Family Foundation give?
- Bronson Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $28,165 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bronson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are Bronson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Vermont Land Trust Inc ($28k), Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc ($24k), Cultivating Community ($20k).
- Does Bronson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bronson 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 Bronson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Onion Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Quimby Family Foundation.
- Where is Bronson Family Foundation based?
- Bronson Family Foundation is based in DE.
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