· Private foundation
Bruggen Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k7 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY | $587,500 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $317,455 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST OHIO | $250,000 |
| LOVE WITHOUT BOUNDARIES | $232,435 |
| KENYA WORKS INC | $170,147 |
| STRATEGIES TO END HOMELESSNESS | $160,000 |
| ANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| EDESIA INC | $100,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ONESKY | $90,000 |
| DISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC | $57,250 |
| PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY | $40,000 |
| COMBONI MISSIONARIES OF THE HEART OF JESUS | $40,000 |
| CLOVERNOOK CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $36,500 |
| CHANGING GEARS | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $801k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KWKENYA WORKS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $393k · revenue +9%
- CICHANGINGGEARS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +24%
- CCCAIN CINCY2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- CTCHRIST THE KING CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
Indiana University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $205k · revenue +41%- PZPOTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Stabilize neighborhoods through establishing financing, education, rehabilitation of existing housing and development of new housing
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
The mission of indy hunger network is to address systemic hunger issues and eliminate disparities in the greater indianapolis hunger relief system through collaboration on programs, advocacy, and research.
Exodus Refugee Immigration is dedicated to the protection of human rights by serving the resettlement needs of refugees and other displaced people fleeing persecution, injustice and war by welcoming them to Indiana.
CoAction envisions the people of Northwest Indiana flourishing regardless of income, ability or age. Thus, people experiencing financial hardship find opportunities, resources and respect at CoAction.
Inclusive Development International supports communities around the world to defend their rights and resources in the face of harmful corporate activities and internationally financed development projects, and we advocate for a more just…
The construction and renovation of homes for low income families.
Housing Opportunities DBA CoAction works to resolve and prevent homelessness in our communities by providing emergency housing, permanent supportive housing, affordable rentals, rental assistance, housing counseling, street outreach…
Insight development corporation fosters low-income housing in and around indianapolis, indiana and the surrounding community.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edesia Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dismas House of Indiana Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds KENYA WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDEAN HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds Strategies to End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds POTAWATOMI ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OneSky ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGINGGEARS INC ↗
- Who funds CAIN CINCY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE WORKING COOPERATIVELY INC ↗
- Who funds Clovernook Center For the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds THE METANOIA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE TO VILLAGE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · John a Schroth Family Char Tr · Tr Uw Jacob Schmidlapp #1 · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Millstone Fund · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bruggen Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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