How much does Fred J Brunner Foundation give?

Fred J Brunner Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $1,591,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 99 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Fred J Brunner Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Human Services (33%), Health (7%).

Who are Fred J Brunner Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Aspire of Illinois ($475k), The Salvation Army ($400k), Center for Independent Futures ($215k).

Does Fred J Brunner Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Fred J Brunner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Fred J Brunner Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WP & HB White Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, The Chicago Community Trust.

Where is Fred J Brunner Foundation based?

Fred J Brunner Foundation is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

Fred J Brunner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 80
Grants FY2024: 79
Organizations funded FY2023: 3%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $80,000
Organizations funded a year: 79 to 99; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 9
Total assets, FY2024: $32M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations Fred J Brunner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	80	$1.6M	6%
FY2023	79	$1.6M	3%
FY2022	98	$1.9M	3%
FY2021	99	$1.8M	9%
FY2020	96	$1.5M	n/a

95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$3.2MHuman Services$2.8MHealth$619kHousing & Shelter$500kReligion$355kRecreation & Sports$210kFood & Nutrition$190kCrime & Legal$90kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Aspire of Illinois	$475,000	5	1%
The Salvation Army	$400,000	5	n/a
Center for Independent Futures	$215,000	4	4%
Chicago Jesuit Academy	$150,000	5	n/a
Crimson Tide Foundation	$150,000	1	n/a
St Patrick High School	$150,000	5	n/a
Mother McAuley High School	$140,000	5	n/a
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$135,000	5	0%
St Malachy School	$125,000	5	n/a
Holy Trinity High School	$125,000	5	n/a

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All grantees of Fred J Brunner Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Aspire of Illinois	$475,000	5	1%
The Salvation Army	$400,000	5	n/a
Center for Independent Futures	$215,000	4	4%
Chicago Jesuit Academy	$150,000	5	n/a
Crimson Tide Foundation	$150,000	1	n/a
St Patrick High School	$150,000	5	n/a
Mother McAuley High School	$140,000	5	n/a
Northern Illinois Food Bank	$135,000	5	0%
St Malachy School	$125,000	5	n/a
Holy Trinity High School	$125,000	5	n/a
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School	$125,000	5	n/a
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired	$125,000	5	0%
San Miguel Febres Cordero School Inc	$120,000	5	2%
Our Lady of Tepeyac High School	$115,000	5	n/a
Nativity Jesuit Academy Inc	$115,000	5	n/a
Bartlett Learning Center Inc	$115,000	5	0%
Mount Carmel High School	$110,000	5	n/a
Josephinum Academy	$85,000	3	n/a
Roseland Training Center	$75,000	5	n/a
Sinsinawa Dominicans Inc	$75,000	3	n/a
Dutchess Day School	$70,000	3	1%
Saint Xavier University	$65,000	4	0%
Oliversoccer Fc	$60,000	4	46%
Children's Research Triangle	$60,000	5	0%
Mercy Housing Lakefront	$55,000	5	0%
Southwest Chicago Homeless Services	$55,000	5	10%
Mutual Ground Inc	$50,000	5	0%
Crisis Center for South Suburbia	$50,000	5	0%
The Lambs Farm Inc	$50,000	5	0%
Council for Jewish Elderly	$50,000	5	0%
Home of the Sparrow Inc	$50,000	5	0%
Sisterhouse	$50,000	5	2%
Senior Care Volunteer Network	$45,500	5	2%
Housing Forward	$45,000	5	0%
Disabled Patriot Fund Inc	$45,000	5	8%
Have Dreams	$45,000	5	1%
Between Friends	$45,000	3	1%
New Moms Inc	$45,000	5	0%
Midtown-Metro Achievement Centers	$45,000	5	0%
The Night Ministry	$45,000	5	0%
Operation Warm Inc	$44,000	4	0%
Turning Point Inc	$43,000	5	0%
Valley View School Inc	$42,500	1	2%
Hoopeston Multi Agency Service	$41,000	5	4%
Illinois Science and Technology Institute	$40,000	4	2%
Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund	$40,000	4	0%
Beds Plus Inc	$35,000	4	0%
Little Friends Inc	$35,000	4	0%
Casa Central Social Services Corporation	$30,000	3	0%
Common Pantry	$30,000	2	1%
Community Support Services Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Elim Christian Services	$30,000	3	0%
Fox Valley Hands of Hope Inc	$30,000	3	2%
Norwood Life Care Foundation- B	$27,500	3	1%
Lincoln Park Zoological Society	$25,000	3	0%
Sarah's Circle	$25,000	3	0%
Meals on Wheels	$25,000	1	n/a
Helen Keller International	$23,000	3	0%
Howard Area Community Center	$20,000	2	0%
Better Government Association Inc	$20,000	3	0%
St Joseph High School	$10,000	1	n/a
Returning Home Inc	$10,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.

Fred J Brunner Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 46 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 46.

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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.

WP & HB White FoundationIL38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: WP & HB White Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · The Chicago Community Trust · Circle of Service Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Dupage Community Foundation · Irish Fellowship Educational & Cultural Foundation · AbbVie 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.

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About Fred J Brunner Foundation

How much does Fred J Brunner Foundation give?: Fred J Brunner Foundation reported 80 grants totaling $1,591,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 99 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Fred J Brunner Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (37%), Human Services (33%), Health (7%).
Who are Fred J Brunner Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Aspire of Illinois ($475k), The Salvation Army ($400k), Center for Independent Futures ($215k).
Does Fred J Brunner Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fred J Brunner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fred J Brunner Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WP & HB White Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, The Chicago Community Trust.
Where is Fred J Brunner Foundation based?: Fred J Brunner Foundation is based in IL.