Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc
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.
- $237k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2025
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 89
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 28
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 84 | $237k | 2% |
| FY2024 | 89 | $284k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $154k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $38k | 59% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $24k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asa Social Fund for Hidden Peoples | $29,000 | 5 | 15% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $15,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation | $13,600 | 5 | 0% |
| Best Friends Animal Society | $13,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Helen Keller International | $12,400 | 4 | 0% |
| American Near East Refugee Aid | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Christian Appalachian Project Inc | $11,200 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($167k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
Compare Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc
- How much does Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc give?
- Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc reported 84 grants totaling $236,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 89 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (23%), Health (23%), Animals (16%).
- Who are Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Asa Social Fund for Hidden Peoples ($29k), The Shriners' Hospital for Children ($16k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($15k).
- Does Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc 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 Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bradford Family Foundation, Farrell Family Foundation, Grace and Li Yu Family Foundation.
- Where is Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc based?
- Fred and Maxi Bruhns Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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