Minnesota · Private foundation
Bruce Senske Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $13k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Bruce Senske Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthInternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $13k | 46% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $26k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $23k | 80% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $19k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $53k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $5k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Religion$114kHealth$5kYouth Development$4kEducation$4kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$3kScience & Tech$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
MN
IL
NY
CT
VA
MD
TN
DC
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immanuel Fellowship | $48,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family of Christ Lutheran Church | $42,010 | 4 | n/a |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $2,679 | 3 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $1,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Seeds of Hope Inc | $1,510 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $836 | 2 | 0% |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $654 | 1 | 0% |
| Christian Auto Repair Shop | $650 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immanuel Fellowship | $48,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Family of Christ Lutheran Church | $42,010 | 4 | n/a |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $2,679 | 3 | 0% |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $1,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Seeds of Hope Inc | $1,510 | 1 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Evangelical Lutheran Church in America | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $836 | 2 | 0% |
| Urban Ventures Leadership Foundation | $654 | 1 | 0% |
| Christian Auto Repair Shop | $650 | 2 | n/a |
| Second Harvest Heartland | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Cancer Society Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| Relate Inc | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $75 | 1 | 0% |
| Brightfocus Foundation | $50 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce Senske Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.
About Bruce Senske Family Foundation
- How much does Bruce Senske Family Foundation give?
- Bruce Senske Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $12,909 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce Senske Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (82%), Health (4%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are Bruce Senske Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Immanuel Fellowship ($48k), Family of Christ Lutheran Church ($42k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($3k).
- Does Bruce Senske Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce Senske Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Bruce Senske Family Foundation based?
- Bruce Senske Family Foundation is based in MN.
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