· Private foundation
Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $17k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARCTIC BARNABAS MINISTRIES (HASSEMER SUPPORT) | $2,100 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP USA | $1,500 |
| WOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER | $1,500 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GIFTS & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION | $1,000 |
| WORDS OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| UW-MANITOWOC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $1,000 |
| MANITOWOC COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ABARCTIC BARNABAS MINISTRIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +40%
WOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER AND PRESERVE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +181%- HCHOPE COLLEGE2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
- LCLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +80%
- UFUNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - MANITOWOC INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -82%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lakeshore Wind Ensemble Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARCTIC BARNABAS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND DUNES NATURE CENTER AND PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds MANITOWOC COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AURORA HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE OF MANITOWOC COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - MANITOWOC INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds What If Foundation ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE WIND ENSEMBLE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEVA CAMP & RETREAT CENTER ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds INCOURAGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · Harold C Kallies Charitable Trust 32f003019 · Jane & Arthur Stangel Fund Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.