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Brutten Family Foundation at a glance

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Brutten Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$693k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.2MPhilanthropy$714kCrime & Legal$380kHealth$331kYouth Development$240kArts & Culture$197kHuman Services$119kEnvironment$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $136k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $505k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$150,000
THE VANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FORIDA INC$100,000
USD BURNHAM-MOORES CENTER$54,700
USD BURNHAM-MOORES CENTER MILITARY SCHOLARSHIP$50,000
SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION$50,000
OCEANA INC$50,000
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY$50,000
VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC$27,500
SHARP HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$25,000
SCRIPPS HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
THE VANGUARD SCHOOL$18,156
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO$10,500
FEEDING SAN DIEGO$10,000
OUTDOOR OUTREACH$10,000
BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $2k → 10%THE MIDNIGHT MISSION: $3k → 14%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%9WEEKWARRIOR: $2k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $500 → 11%RISE UP INDUSTRIES: $500 → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $3k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%DEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS: $2k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $25k → 11%SERVING SENIORS: $1k → 11%SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
NV
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Brutten Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 48%.

Brutten Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 44 repeat orgs$668k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
43

Total granted

$5.5M
$421k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+20%

Still filing today

66%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $247k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • VF
    VOICES FOR CHILDREN
    7× · 2017–2024 · $350k · revenue +44%
  • FP
    FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $272k · revenue +61%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • ND
    NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +73%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +53%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF UTAH COUNTY
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education
2
San Diego Municipal Employees Assn

The san diego municipal employees association (sdmea) is dedicated to being a strong and effective advocate for san diego city employees. sdmea is united to improve employees' standard of living and promote their fair treatment by…

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3
San Diego Coasters
Arts & Culture
4
Associated Students of San Diego State University

To support the social, recreational, cultural and education programs and facilities, both on campus and in the community, and to advocate for student interests, provide leadership opportunities and participate in shared governance.

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5
San Diego Convention and Tourist Bureau

To drive visitor demand to economically benefit the san diego region.

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6
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
7
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
8
San Diego Opera Association

Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…

Arts & Culture
9
San Diego County Bar Association

The mission of the san diego county bar association is to be the representative of the san diego county legal profession, serving the prblic and the profession by enhancing the legal system and promoting justice, professional excellence,…

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10
Policy & Innovation Center

The policy & innovation center's (pic) mission is to unlock the region's potential by cultivating and building partnerships. our niche is to address intractable issues that can only be solved with cross-sector, multi-jurisdictional…

Philanthropy
11
Connect Foundation

Connect is an innovation instigator established to cultivate san diego's life science and tech communities. a trusted partner for more than 30 years, we propel our region's entrepreneurs as they create and scale their companies from…

Education
12
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Kgsa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 103 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/67
Grantees still filing
47/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP: $1,733,334 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPBISHOP SCHOOL: $1,040,000 · OtherBISHOP SCHOOLTHE VANGUARD SCHOOL: $656,505 · OtherTHE VANGUARD SCHOOLBURNHAM-MOORES CENTER: $182,500 · Other+70 more: $831,077 · Other+70 moreTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $428,410 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEG…FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $271,750 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHI…CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO: $31,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $16,500 · PhilanthropyUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC: $100,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC: $64,728 · EducationVALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $55,000 · EducationBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Education+2 more: $10,000 · EducationVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $350,000 · Civil RightsSharp Healthcare Foundation: $115,000 · HealthCUREBOUND: $64,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH: $35,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $9,000 · HealthTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $155,000 · Arts & CultureECOVIVARIUM: $25,000 · Arts & CultureEGYPTIAN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATURAL HIGH: $80,000 · Community ImprovementDEL MAR FOUNDATION: $23,500 · Community ImprovementCOLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS: $5,000 · Community ImprovementDEL MAR COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $4,000 · Community Improvement
Other$4,443,416Philanthropy$747,660Education$469,728Civil Rights$350,000Health$288,500Arts & Culture$200,000Community Improvement$112,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $428,410 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN: $350,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $271,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $155,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSharp Healthcare Foundation: $115,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATURAL HIGH: $80,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetOCEANA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC: $64,728 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetCUREBOUND: $64,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO: $31,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $30,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSERVING SENIORS: $26,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEL MAR FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKGSA FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetCOACHING CORPS: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEGYPTIAN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 60% of budgetTERI Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTDOOR OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGrossmont Hospital Foundation: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHWEST SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS FOUNDAT: $8,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetST THOMAS AQUINAS SOCIETY: $8,250 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetREUBEN H FLEET SCIENCE CENTER: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDEL MAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS DMCC: $7,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLUX ART INSTITUTE: $6,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANDA CARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO ASSOCIATION FOR BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNAIOP SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER TO SOLDIER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOLD GLOBE THEATRE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds Sharp Healthcare Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD SCHOOL OF LAKE WALES FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL HIGH ↗
  • Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY FORGE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SCRIPPS HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds CENTURY CLUB OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds ECOVIVARIUM ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds DEL MAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KGSA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COACHING CORPS ↗
  • Who funds EGYPTIAN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TERI Inc ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗

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.

The San Diego Foundat…Walter J & Betty C Za…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationDavid C Copley Founda…Jewish Community Foun…The Conrad Prebys Fou…The Nordson Corporati…The Cushman FoundationPrice Philanthropies …The Parker FoundationFrench Fund Samuel Ka…
The San Diego FoundationCA51.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Parker Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brutten Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brutten Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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