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Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2017
16
Grants FY2017
16
Organizations funded FY2017
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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

13
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16
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2017
$2,100
States reached, FY2017
6
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$320kReligion$10kHousing & Shelter$6kArts & Culture$5kEducation$4kEnvironment$3kHealth$3kInternational$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArctic Barnabas Ministries Inc: $6,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHope College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetManitowoc County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAurora Health Care Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHope House of Manitowoc County Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLakeshore Community Health Care Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachia Service Project Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhat If Foundation: $550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGeneva Camp & Retreat Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilwaukee Habitat for Humanity Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Maritime Museum Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 15.

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.

Lakeshore Community Foundation IncWI15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust

How much does Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust give?
Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust reported 16 grants totaling $16,600 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (90%), Religion (3%), Housing & Shelter (2%).
Who are Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Arctic Barnabas Ministries Inc ($6k), InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ($3k), Woodland Dunes Nature Center and Preserve Inc ($3k).
Does Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc, Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc, Harold C Kallies Charitable Trust 32f003019.
Where is Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust based?
Donald J and Brenda J Debruyn Charitable Foundation Trust is based in WI.

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 24 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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