· Private foundation
Fred J Brunner Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k72 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $330k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $80,000 |
| PILLARS-CONSTANCE MORRIS HOUSE | $75,000 |
| ASPIRE | $75,000 |
| SABAN CENTER | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES | $50,000 |
| ST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| SAN MIGUEL SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CHRIST THE KING COLLEGE PREP | $30,000 |
| CRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| MISERICORDIA HEART OF MERCY | $30,000 |
| CLARE WOODS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MOTHER MC AULEY HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
103 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AOASPIRE OF ILLINOIS5× · 2020–2024 · $475k · revenue +49%
- NINORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +8%
- SMSAN MIGUEL FEBRES CORDERO SCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CTCRIMSON TIDE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $150k
- VVVALLEY VIEW SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $43k · revenue +36%
- SJST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide community-based residential housing to adults with autism and/or severe developmental disabilities. also provide developmental training and other supports to this same population.
To provide residential and rehabilitation services to clients with mental illnesses
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
The organization seeks to provide residential services for disabled adults and children, as well as behavioral health, regular work and supported employment services for these disabled individuals. additionally, developmental training and…
Committed to improving the quality of life for chicago's low-income elderly, housing opportunities and maintenance for the elderly (h.o.m.e.) helps seniors remain independent and part of their community by offering opportunities for…
Provide mental health services.
Operate homes for the aged and to conduct charitable and benevolent enterprises
It is the mission of sinnissippi centers, inc. to provide quality, coordinated and responsive behavioral healthcare services to individuals, families and the communities we serve.
Respond now connects those in need with health, hunger, and housing services in the chicago southland.
To operate facilities throughout illinois for the long-term care of developmentally disabled residents in our intermediate care facilities and community integrated living arrangements.
The mission of goodwill is to create opportunities for individuals with barriers to enhance their lives. barriers include physical or mental disabilities, lack of education and job preparation, socio-economic disadvantages, and others.…
Innovative services, inc. (isi) cares for those with disabilities, helping them lead fulfilling lives with maximum independence. innovative's vision is to be the most trusted care provider for people with disabilities in wisconsin.
How this is measured
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 115 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred J Brunner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred J Brunner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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