· Private foundation
Bruce Senske Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family of Christ Lutheran Church | $8,000 |
| Love Inc | $2,022 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
| ALS Association | $500 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $250 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $212 |
| RELATE COUNSELING CENTER | $100 |
| Constant Free Church | $100 |
| LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA - BLOOD CANCER UN | $75 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of Bruce Senske Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FMFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC3× · 2023–2025 · $3k · revenue +12%
- ALAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +23%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IFIMMANUEL FELLOWSHIPone grant, 2021 · $48k
- IFImmanuel Fellowship Churchone grant, 2022 · $13k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $9k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Aicr champions the latest and most authoritative scientific research from around the world on cancer prevention and survival through diet, weight and physical activity, so that we can help people make informed lifestyle choices to reduce…
To create and lead alliances and public-private partnerships that advance breakthrough biomedical discoveries and improve the quality of people's lives
The american lung association's mission is to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. we do this through education, advocacy, and research.
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2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Relate Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bruce Senske Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce Senske Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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