California · Private foundation
Dr Bronners Family Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $170k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2026
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 104
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $193k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 83% of the organizations Dr Bronners Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 5 | $120k | 20% |
| FY2025 | 18 | $470k | 83% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $885k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $155k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 86 | $2.0M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 104 | $2.0M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $921k | 34% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $1.0M | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Right to Know | $548,000 | 7 | 35% |
| Commission to Every Nation | $440,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Friends of the Earth | $337,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Wellspring Inc | $240,000 | 5 | 55% |
| Fraternity House Inc | $225,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Harvestnet International | $195,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Equality Alliance of San Diego | $185,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Cohere USA Inc | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $135,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Aja Project | $105,000 | 5 | 5% |
Show all 170 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dr Bronners Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 141 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · St Louis Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Dr Bronners Family Foundation
- How much does Dr Bronners Family Foundation give?
- Dr Bronners Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $170,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 104 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Dr Bronners Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (14%), International (12%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Dr Bronners Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: US Right to Know ($548k), Commission to Every Nation ($440k), Friends of the Earth ($338k).
- Does Dr Bronners Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dr Bronners Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dr Bronners Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, NEO Philanthropy Inc, Borealis Philanthropy.
- Where is Dr Bronners Family Foundation based?
- Dr Bronners Family Foundation is based in CA.
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