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Donald and Carol Bremer Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Donald and Carol Bremer Charitable Foundation

CHARITABLEEDUCATIONAL 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.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$55kEducation$48kReligion$34kHealth$32kHuman Services$12kHousing & Shelter$11kInternational$9kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
14
States reached
$468k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS REPUBLIC$9,000
WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION$8,000
GOSPEL REVIVAL MINISTRIES$5,000
NORD$1,500
WELCOME HOME MINISTRIES$1,500
SALVATION ARMY$1,300
ROTARY FOUNDATION$1,200
SMILE TRAIN$1,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSP$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CITY OF HOPE$800
DISCIPLES SEMINARY FOUNDATION$800
DOVES$750
WOUNDED WARRIOR FOUNDATION$700
LOS ANGELES MISSION$700
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 (FY20–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $700 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $11k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $10k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $9k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $350 → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $9k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $7k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%DOVES: $750 → 14%DOVES: $750 → 14%DOVES: $750 → 14%DOVES: $750 → 14%DOVES: $750 → 14%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
AZ
TN
DC
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 41 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
15

Total granted

$215k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+49%

Still filing today

54%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalReligionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BR
    Boys Republic
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +22%
  • WS
    WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +13%
  • GR
    Gospel Revival Ministries Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEBRASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • WH
    WELCOME HOME MINISTRY
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $700 · revenue +50%
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
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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3
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
4
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
7
World Vision Inc

World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…

International
8
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
9
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
10
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
11
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 61 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
28/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ORG RARE DISORDERS: $9,000 · OtherNATIONAL ORG RARE DISORDERSIndividual grant recipient: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,500 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE: $5,000 · OtherNEBRASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGECITY OF HOPE: $3,700 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $3,400 · OtherDISCIPLES SEMINARY FOUNDATION: $3,100 · Other+34 more: $45,000 · Other+34 moreBoys Republic: $50,500 · Human ServicesBoys RepublicDOVES OF BIG BEAR VALLEY INC: $3,750 · Human ServicesDOVES OF BIG BEAR VALLEY INCCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesWAYNE STATE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · EducationWAYNE STATE FOUNDATI…Rotary Club of Big Bear Lake: $2,300 · EducationRotary Club of Big B…+1 more: $500 · EducationGospel Revival Ministries Inc: $20,500 · ReligionGospel Rev…MISSION IMPACT INC: $2,000 · ReligionMISSION IM…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $6,700 · InternationalTHOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION: $1,600 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $900 · InternationalKids Alive International Inc: $500 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,600 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $1,400 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 · HealthWELCOME HOME MINISTRIES: $6,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$87,200Human Services$59,750Education$42,800Religion$22,500International$9,700Health$9,500Arts & Culture$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys Republic: $50,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWAYNE STATE FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGospel Revival Ministries Inc: $20,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $6,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME HOME MINISTRIES: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDOVES OF BIG BEAR VALLEY INC: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $2,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $2,350 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Big Bear Lake: $2,300 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION IMPACT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP ALANDALE: $1,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION: $1,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Brain Tumor Association: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Alive International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF RUTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $500 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 Boys Republic ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Gospel Revival Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds WELCOME HOME MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds DOVES OF BIG BEAR VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Rotary Club of Big Bear Lake ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds CAMP ALANDALE ↗
  • Who funds THOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗

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.

Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Donald and Carol Bremer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald and Carol Bremer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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How do I get to Donald and Carol Bremer Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Donald and Carol Bremer Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 61 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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